Salary: £62,685 - £74,858 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 36 hours per week
Job Description
Place – Housing and Homelessness
Housing and Homelessness Commissioning and Contracts Manager
Waverley Court
The City of Edinburgh Council has declared a Housing Emergency and wants to ensure everyone has a secure, safe, warm place to call home, with access to services and a culture that supports individuals and communities to thrive.
Following a review of our delivery structure, we are looking for an exceptional individual to develop a consolidated commissioning and procurement approach for the Housing and Homelessness service, ensuring Best Value across all aspects of the Council’s landlord function. This includes the commissioning of all internal and external services focusing on homelessness prevention, capital investment, and estate regeneration.
You will have experience of planning and managing large complex, high-value contracts, programme and project management, and market shaping. Your ability to communicate the vision and direction of the service will be critical, with a sound understanding of data development, analysis and governance and how this supports key strategic and operational decisions.
You'll be innovative, outcome-focused with strong leadership skills that demonstrate our organisational behaviours – respect, integrity and flexibility - as well as extensive experience of creating a high performing prevention-based culture, driving change and service delivery.
You'll be joining the highest profile social landlord in Scotland, with an annual expenditure portfolio of £250m each year, and work closely with both our Strategy Manager and Service Improvement Manager, and with strategic partners such as Health and Social Care, NHS Lothian, and the third sector to influence marketplace development and achieve the best outcome for our current and prospective tenants.
If you recognise yourself in this description, we would love to hear from you or if you want to know about the role contact lisa.mallon@edinburgh.gov.uk.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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