What's involved with this role: Interim Housing Strategic Lead – Housing Solutions Job Ref: Luton 99602 Pay Rate: £311.97 per day PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months City: Luton The purpose of the role is to work to the Transformation Lead in delivering identified workstreams to support the Housing Solutions /TA DRP programme. Key Responsibilities: Research data indicating where resources are currently focused and current arrangements for service deliver. Identify where operational change is necessary and where efficiencies can be made. Where necessary, design and implement new operating models, processes and frameworks for practice/service delivery. Engage with staff in the establishment to do so and with officers in related support services whose expertise is needed. Identify any dependencies on delivering the change. Report back to the Transformation Lead re progress, barriers or risks to achieving the targeted spend reductions. Qualifications: Relevant qualifications. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Strong understanding of welfare, homelessness, housing policies, homelessness legislation, strategies, and its implementation within a statutory homelessness service. Experience of applying strong analytical skills and lateral thinking to develop solutions focused on the aims of the programme delivery. Keeping projects plan up to date and keeping to timed deadlines. Effective data record keeping of actions, decisions, and risks. The ability to pre-empt issues and identifying and mitigating actions and plans. Building productive and collaborative relationships with all stakeholders, and utilising these to influence and deliver change. Be able to evidence previous control of resources / assets. Have an understanding of Housing options / homelessness / TA be strategic but be able to communicate to all levels of organisation. Housing association / Landlord forum background will also be considered. Effective budget, time, and resource management. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro). 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. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. 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. S 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