Royal Greenwich is proud to be a borough synonymous with first class modern services. A world heritage site, our communities are vibrant and diverse and our elected members are ambitious to realise the potential of the borough whilst working within a challenging financial environment.

As one of London's largest social landlords, we are seeking an exceptional leader to help develop our approach to landlord safety and compliance, so it meets the highest standards and helps deliver our vision of being the best in the country.

The Repairs and Investment service within the Housing and Safer Communities Directorate, delivers responsive repairs, capital and major works, and all safety and compliance services to our 25,000 Council tenants and leaseholders. We carry out approx. 80,000 repairs a year via our repairs service mainly delivered by our in-house team, with some more specialist services being delivered by external contractors.

The successful candidate will work with the Senior Management and Leadership Team to map and deliver the necessary improvements. With a strong focus on delivering measurable improvements, they will lead on developing strategy and operational change for the service, whilst managing operational electrical and gas service teams and contract managing other external contractors. You will directly manage up to 8 staff, with wider staffing of up to 100. The candidate will need to have a strong background in most aspects of landlord safety compliance but is not expected to be an expert in all fields. Delivering change will be key to this role.

The service has embarked upon significant change programme including an upgrade project for our Housing Management System, which will provide opportunity for developing new ways of working and stronger compliance outcomes.

The successful candidate will take a lead role, encouraging innovation and looking for ways to do things better. In doing so, the appointee will work closely with key stakeholders, including Residents' Groups and Members, services across the council and external partners.

The successful candidate will have excellent written and communication skills, being at home communicating with residents, key elected members and stakeholders, building a positive, solution-focused culture within the service. They will have good experience of safety and compliance but above all must be able to show a track record of delivering improvements.

This lead role for the service will be both challenging and rewarding. If this sounds like a role for you, we would love to hear from you. For more information and to make an application, please visit royalgreenwichcareers.com

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.