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Housing Delivery Officer

Employer
North Yorkshire Council
Location
North Yorkshire
Salary
£41,511 - £45,718 pro rata, per annum
Closing date
26 Jan 2025
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The Council’s Planning Services play a fundamental role in managing the natural and built environment, ensuring that the future development needs of the area can be accommodated to make it a better place in which to live and work. 

The Delivery and Infrastructure team is focussed on unlocking and delivering strategic and local plan development sites across North Yorkshire, developing relationships with funding partners and infrastructure providers and ensuring that monies are levered in from new development to support our place shaping ambitions.

Role summary…

The Site Delivery Account Manager will play a key role accelerating the delivery of new homes, working actively to remove barriers to delivery, including identifying opportunities where the Council can intervene to unlock sites. You will need to build strong and effective working relationships with the development industry, working collaboratively to monitor site delivery and support timely delivery.

You will develop creative and tailored solutions and interventions and drive forward new initiatives to accelerate site delivery. The post holder will co-ordinate and prepare funding bids, and where successful manage these projects through to successful completion, working collaboratively with internal and external partners.

Duties and responsibilities… 

·       Develop and maintain an effective system for proactively monitoring progress on housing sites (including allocations, sites moving through the development management process and sites with planning permission).

·       Work collaboratively to maintain accurate records of how sites with planning permission and Local Plan allocations are progressing relative to the housing trajectory and to identify potential barriers.

·       Engage with site promoters and developers to monitor progress and to encourage timely delivery.

·       Identify opportunities for the Council to intervene in order to unlock/speed up the delivery of sites.

·       Work collaboratively with Policy Planners through the preparation/review of the Local Plan to engage with promoters and feed in knowledge of site delivery and during the drafting of housing related strategy and policies.

·       Where potential barriers to housing delivery occur (e.g., in relation to a particular site, multiple sites or a certain site typology), evaluate options for overcoming these barriers and recommend a preferred solution.

·       Keep abreast of best practice and successful initiatives elsewhere in the country and recommend/implement new initiatives/ways of working to help the service to deliver its housing delivery ambitions.

·       Ensure that the Council is proactively meeting its duties in respect of bringing forward self-build and custom build sites.

·       Prepare/coordinate quality bids in response to external funding opportunities and commissioning external support for projects/sites.

·       Where successful bids are made, ensure that the project is successfully delivered (e.g., through coordination with others, project group, as lead officer, by ensuring the end recipient receives the funding).

·       Feed into the preparation, implementation, and review of the Site Delivery Action Plan.

·       Build and maintain regular dialogue across the service into the account management process.

·       Work closely with officers in Housing & Property to ensure a coordinated Council-wide approach to housing delivery and to make sure opportunities for direct delivery of housing are fully explored.

·       Engage external specialist expertise/consultants where necessary to bring sites forward (e.g., viability, urban design/master-planning).

·       Prepare regular briefings on progress with account management to present to Members and Senior officers, as necessary.

·       Take responsibility for own work, performance, development, and behaviours; using own initiative to ensure that expectations are met for the benefit of the Council, our customers, and our colleagues.

Experience / Qualifications:

·       Degree level qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject/field.

·       Strong track record of effective programme management and experience of managing multi-disciplinary projects and processes.

·       Experience of negotiating with a range of bodies and individuals.

·       Experience of proactively leading and delivering change and improvement initiatives.

·       Working across organisational boundaries, developing effective relationships in order to deliver Service projects and priorities.

·       Experience of working closely with the development industry and building proactive and successful relationships between the public and private sector.

·       Development and delivery of successful business cases to secure external funding/investment.

·       Experience of effective communication using a variety of methods tailored to a broad range of stakeholders and customers including experience of presenting evidence at examinations/inquiries and or reports to Members.

·       Sound knowledge and practical understanding of planning, infrastructure and housing related legislation and associated funding mechanisms.

·       Financially and commercially aware with strong analytical skills and a creative approach to service delivery.

Contact and Apply… 

For an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Tracey.Rathmell@northyorks.gov.uk or Natasha.Durham@northyorks.gov.uk

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.

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From the 1st April 2023 the eight district, borough and county councils in North Yorkshire merge to form the new Council, serving 611,000 residents.

The County of North Yorkshire is the largest County in England and Wales. Within the county are 598 square miles of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and 530 square miles of the North York Moors National Park. The county is included in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region.

Whilst the economy of the County has traditionally been dependent on agriculture and tourism, there is a fast growing high technology base and this, together with other forms of light manufacturing industry, is of increasing importance. The Council has an active policy of economic development and the predominantly rural character of the County is highly attractive to high technology businesses as well as the traditional industries of farming, food production and tourism. The County contains several centres of great historic interest, market towns that invite light industrial development, the modern coalfield area in the South, scenic, lightly populated upland areas and the extensive lowland area in the Vale of York.

With a brand new Council, newly elected members, the prospect of a new combined authority as well as its’ first ever mayor, North Yorkshire is on the cusp of a new dawn. The county already has firm foundations - a strong culture and identity which is rich in heritage; thriving communities where the people and places are resilient and innovative; beautiful scenery with stunning landscapes, quaint villages, market and coastal towns; plus the vibrant cities of York and Leeds just on the doorstep.  This amazing county combines the best of the traditional and the modern, and is widely regarded as one of the best places to live in the UK.  North Yorkshire is a great place to live, work and do business.

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