What's involved with this role: Interim Housing Senior Development Manager Reference no: Merton TCL 311024 Pay Rate: up to £370 per day PAYE depending on experience (tbc) 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3-6 months City: MITCHAM, LONDON Note: the pay rate is provisional only and the ad will be amended with the confirmed rate once received The focus of the role is on delivering 93 affordable homes on 4 small council-owned sites. This is the first stage in the Council’s housing delivery programme. Implementing the Council’s ambition to deliver 400 new affordable homes in the borough on council-owned land the Council identified 4 sites in its ownership and agreed in October 2022 that the sites would be used to deliver affordable housing. These sites already had proposals worked up to deliver 93 homes that had been considered by the Planning Committee. The 4 sites are: - CR4 3TA (21 units); - CR4 2JB (36 units); - CR4 4HD (18 Units); Morden SM4 6RA (18 units). Key Responsibilities: Manage the delivery programme of the 93 homes – all now have planning permission and we are moving into the construction phase. C lient L&Q and ensure the procurement process is run in the Council’s interest W ork with council colleagues to progress legal and other matters to ensure the sites are vacant and ready for start on sites from Spring next year. M anage the budget for the delivery of the 93 homes providing regular updates. M anage advisors to the council including the Council’s appointed Employers Agent P repare briefing and update report to a senior Officer Steering Group and Members Steering Group who oversee this programme. Prepare any reports to Cabinet and other decision-making bodies as required Qualifications: A professional qualification, through RIBA or RICS or RTPI would be a benefit. Knowledge: Technical understanding and experience of the development process from start to finish (planning and design, procurement, construction and through to delivery), with a track record of delivering built environment projects to time and budget. Experience: Experience of successfully delivering high quality, sustainable affordable housing projects, particularly on smaller and more challenging sites Experience on a variety of delivery strategies – from development agreements, other forms of partnership, council direct build and disposal. Experience in land assembly, valuation, appraisals, and negotiation. Experience working with and influencing senior stakeholders in both the public and private sector, particularly building relationships with elected members. Demonstrable experience of strategic and innovative thinking with a proven track record of delivering results against tight deadlines and stretching targets. Experience of leading a mixed team of both internal staff and technical, expert consultants and building an inclusive culture and team. Must have specific experience in this field. Skills & Abilities: Very good prioritisation skills to balance key priorities 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. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. 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 – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly 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