Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX : Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : London, London (region), E14 4PU : Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Manchester, North West England, M1 6EU : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ
Job Summary
Working in a team with Head of Legal – Investment and three other senior solicitors, this is a senior management and leadership role where you will be given a rare opportunity to lead a team, growing your expertise and undertaking professional development with roles and projects that will put you at the heart of the housing and regeneration sector.
Job Description
You should enjoy working in the transaction environment either directly offering advice or instructing external solicitors to ensure Homes England accesses the best advice and will be expected to be comfortable working with bank debt and secured lending.
From day one, you’ll be encouraged, challenged, supported, stretched and listened to. You’ll take ownership of projects to develop your skills and work with multi-disciplined teams where your advice matters and directly helps enable us to address the current housing market issues and help deliver the Agency’s mission to increase the delivery of new homes and regeneration of places.
This is a rare chance to be part of a national organisation with real social purpose helping to deliver the Government’s ambitious housing and regeneration agenda.
Person specification
Role
The purpose of this role is to provide a proactive, professional legal service to Homes England in relation to a mixed caseload of transactional and governance advice relating to:
* Development finance supporting SME developers and new entrants and infrastructure finance of loans up to £250m to support developers, master developers and landowners in unlocking strategic housing sites – including bi-lateral/syndicated loans and lending alliances.
* Investments into joint venture and equity arrangements.
* Grants and public funding allocations.
* Risk (legal, commercial, and financial) and mitigation strategies to maximise investment recovery.
* Supporting projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team including demonstrating experience of debt recovery and turnaround.
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.
* Excellent family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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.
Homes England Is Committed To Protecting The Privacy And Security Of Your Personal Data. For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here
Privacy Notice
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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
* Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
* Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
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