Manager- Portfolio (D2002N)

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Location

Bristol, South West, BS1 6EH : Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 2GN : Liverpool, North West, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, NE4 5BZ : Crawley, South East, RH10 1UZ

Summary

About The Job

Working in a team with Patrick Walton our Head of Development Finance Portfolio Management – South and Portfolio Management team, the Specialist PM will play a critical role in ensuring that the residential development schemes that we support are monitored to ensure that they are delivered within time, budget and in line with the approved metrics . You will be joining our experienced team of 25 portfolio managers, who are committed to making positive change in the future delivery of homes into the housing market.

Job Description

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders to enable the successful delivery of residential housing schemes, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You’ll be comfortable building an open and transparent relationship with borrowers and supporting them with their operational funding requirements. You will also ensure that risks are appropriately managed which will include, but not limited to, assessing funding/drawdown requests and reviewing the ongoing performance of the transactions within your portfolio done by undertaking close monitoring of the schemes’ financial and delivery risks. This is generally enabled via a combination of face to face site visits with the borrower and the monitoring surveyor, undertaking regular assessments of borrower’s cashflows to ensure that it remains on track and appropriate and reviewing the monitoring surveying reports. In addition to this you will also be responsible for identifying any escalating risks and potentially providing further funding/restructuring to ensure the delivery of homes are not stalled whilst working closely with the internal stakeholders e.g. Risk/Credit team. To this end you will have expertise in managing a portfolio of active housebuilders and proficient at identifying, reporting and ultimately providing solutions for any issues that might arise. You will eventually manage a portfolio of around 12 schemes consisting of borrowers that range in size and experience who will, at times, look to you for support, thought leadership and guidance.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a portfolio management team operating within the residential development space . You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced property professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Responsibilities

Patrick Walton is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving any issues that impact scheme delivery programmes informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to ensuring homes are delivered. Patrick values diversity in experience and perspective as he feels that this fosters improved decision making and problem solving within the team.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of England’s housing market in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and external housing professionals such as surveyors you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective management of housing schemes and the have the opportunity to help create a more resilient and sustainable housing market.

In addition to the direct management of schemes the role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects centred around ensuring an improved lending and monitoring environment is maintained. To this end role will offer the opportunity to getting involved with are some ambitious projects and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the offering.

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.

Please see attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.

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Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

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

Selection process details

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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.

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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

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitment@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment Team

Email: recruitment@homesengland.gov.uk

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.