Manager, Delivery Planning & Insight (S1218N, S1221N, S1228N)

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Summary

About the job

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all working from home at the moment and so our new colleagues can be based almost anywhere providing that their commute to their relevant base office is reasonable when we come back together. Colleague well-being is our top priority.

Please note that Homes England are currently consulting on a pay and grading review. We will share information with candidates about the outcome of this review and any impact that this may have on this role throughout the recruitment process.

Job Description

The Delivery Planning & Insight team provides in-depth analysis of operational activity to provide delivery insight to support effective decision making, assessment of the effectiveness of delivery, and to enable effective modelling of future delivery activity. Translating business insight and data analytics into comprehensive briefings and advice for internal and external stakeholders, the DPI team has four sub-teams:

Delivery Forecasting which will develop delivery models to support effective and responsive delivery activity planning for existing and new funds, and long-term forecasts linking pipeline data to active project data and modelling data, whilst working cross-agency to aligning market and delivery intelligence.

Delivery Insight combining expert business knowledge and analytical techniques to articulate insights and trends to enable more effective decision making and increase awareness/understanding of the effectiveness of delivery.

Delivery Intelligence providing narrative to interpret analytical output provided within the team and connecting these to outputs from other business areas. Providing delivery intelligence to respond to NAO, PAC, MHCLG and agency requests for data, narrative and analytics and supporting the production of briefings/advice for internal/external stakeholders.

Delivery Business Improvement and Change Coordination team providing technical support and expertise in the development of automated reporting improvements, data integration and visualisation, as well as business partnering in relation to targeted system and process improvements, and working between delivery teams and digital teams to help translate business needs into technical requirements.

You will reside in one of the above teams but work across the wider DPI function identifying key analytical asks from developing policy, combining expert business knowledge and analytical techniques to articulate insights and trends to enable more effective decision making and increase awareness/understanding of the effectiveness of delivery, developing modelling to help forecast future activity and ensuring intelligence is accessible through use of digital platforms.

You will work closely with the wider Strategy, Economics and analytical functions, to take forward larger and more complex analytical projects. You will also work closely with wider function across DES, which is responsible for day to day reporting, performance management and delivering effective control environments.

You will bey a key part of the Delivery Planning and Insight team and fulfil this role in accordance with the values in the Homes England Way.

Responsibilities

You will have experience in interrogating large data sets and bringing together multiple sources of information to answer business questions – ideally in the housing arena. You will draw together programme performance data, market indicators, place analysis (geospatial) and sector knowledge to understand the factors which influence opportunities, intervention choices, and delivery performance

You will generate new ideas for analysis and improvement activity, growing the range of services DPI offers. You will be able to identify gaps in the information and participate in business improvements work to address these.

You will understand how analysis can inform end-to-end business processes and help deliver the Agency’s mission and objectives. You use this information to create articulate, insightful, and persuasive briefings. You will be able to delve into and think around an idea or problem, whilst not losing sight of the bigger picture.

You will use data to identify trends and assess options and be able to bring people with you on that journey. You will have strong inter-personal skills to support the business partnering approach – ensuring that we work across teams (with Corporate Functions, Strategy, Research and Analysis, Finance and Performance).

You will use new insight to support the development of forecasting models which help target and prioritise use of resource across the agency

You will ensure intelligence is accessible and understandable, making best use of current technology to delivery self service options and providing clear narrative to articulate findings.

You will work flexibly, and across teams, to make the best use of the available resource and experience of people across the DES function and wider business. You will understand what it means to be an “intelligent client” when working with others to deliver solutions on your behalf.

You will preferably have experience in delivering similar services for public sector policy programmes, or housing-related businesses.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Security

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Apply and further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :Name : RecruitmentEmail : recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk Recruitment team :Email : recruitment@homesengland.gov.uk