What's involved with this role: Interim Strategic Asset Manager - HRA Reference no: Warwick 5255506 Pay Rate: up to £30.67 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 - 17:15 This opening assignment is for 12 months City: LEAMINGTON SPA Drive transformational improvement of the Council’s asset management function, as part of the wider regulated housing service review and redesign. The role has a significant strategic role to ensure the Council’s current portfolio of HRA operational and non-operational assets are being effectively maintained. Key Responsibilities: HRA Asset Management Strategy: Develop and drive the delivery of the Council’s HRA Asset Management Strategy. Assessment of assets suitable for redevelopment, re-designation, remodelling, alternative use or disposal and the mechanisms by which new assets could be developed, disposed of or acquired. To support the achievement of the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy objectives and HRA Business Plan viability and objectives. Departmental Management: Manage the teams within the Asset Management service to provide an effective, high performing, customer focused, statutorily compliant, and professional property-based service for the Council’s HRA and corporate stock. Deliver on major refurbishment and redevelopment projects, environmental and sustainability projects, planned improvements and responsive and cyclical repair programmes. Support and develop staff, through leading by example, coaching, managing performance and continuous learning develop and maintain ICT and performance management systems. Structure Review: Lead a review of the Council’s asset management function which would include: Proposal and recommendations on how to separate the asset management function into two separate teams by GF and HRA; recommendations for a HRA asset management team structure that would enable this part of the service to move into the regulated housing service; prepare the HRA asset management team to reintegrate into the regulated housing department Responsive Repairs Re-procurement: Working with ARK property consultants, lead the project for the HRA Responsive Repairs re-procurement including project plan and timeline. Compliance Action plan: Strategic lead for the HRA Asset Compliance Action Plan Qualifications: Educated to degree level in a specific professional qualification Knowledge: Understanding of the social housing regulatory landscape and the new consumer standards Experience: Significant experience of working In social housing asset management (planned maintenance, responsive repairs etc.) Strategic and operational experience of leading an asset management function. Significant experience of leading and managing a busy team working within the public sector housing or commercial property environment Experience in the procurement of large and complex contracts to support effective, value for money services Experience of building relationships and working successfully with partnership organisation’s to deliver effective asset management or new development Skills & Abilities: Excellent presentation and communication skills Demonstrable team leadership and management skills Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated through evidence of effective team working. Ability to manage staff to ensure that the wider team delivers its overall objectives. Proven ability to lead a team through change, develop a team approach, support individual development and manage performance effectively. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to/or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states in broad terms where you reside - no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please