Job Description
Group Director - Homes and Communities
Location: Home based positions with expectations to travel across the UK
Salary: £120,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Full Time
As Group Director of Homes and Communities, you'll shape how homes are managed and how communities across their portfolio grow, connect, and flourish. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, you'll be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, setting strategy, driving performance, and championing outstanding customer experience at every level.
What you'll do:
You'll lead the strategic and operational delivery of housing management, neighbourhood services, tenancy sustainment, community engagement, rent and service charges, and commercial services. You'll ensure services are compliant, customer focused, and continuously improving - while keeping customers at the heart of every decision.
You'll also:
- Lead large, multi disciplinary teams and develop a high performance culture
- Drive innovation and transformation across homes and communities
- Champion safeguarding, domestic abuse and independent living services
- Build strong partnerships with local authorities, health, and community stakeholders
- Represent the organisation at board level and externally
- Play a pivotal role in corporate strategy, budget planning, and long term transformation
Who they're looking for:
You'll be a confident, values led senior leader with deep experience in housing or community focused services. You'll bring strategic clarity, operational grip, and the credibility to influence at board and system level.
You'll likely have:
- Proven senior leadership experience in housing, communities or a related sector
- Strong knowledge of housing legislation and regulatory standards
- Experience leading complex services at scale
- A collaborative approach and excellent stakeholder engagement skills
- A genuine commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- A professional housing qualification (e.g. CIH) or equivalent experience
This is an opportunity to shape services that genuinely change lives - combining commercial insight with social purpose, and strategic leadership with hands on impact.
If you want a role where your decisions matter, your leadership is visible, and your work leaves a lasting legacy on communities - this is it.
Discover the organisation:
The organisation is a leading housing provider. They manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across their portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
Their mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
They're looking for like-minded people to join their team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody their values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people's lives.
They are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows them to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support their colleagues. They have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. They are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation their Menopause Friendly accreditation.
They reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
To Apply
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