Housing Strategy Officer

Your tasks

Key relationships/Functional links with Staff at all levels in the wider Housing Department, appointed consultants, colleagues in other relevant Council departments, Members, other public and private bodies.

The post holder reports directly to the Head of Community Housing and is responsible for supporting the development, consultation and delivery of the Borough-wide Housing Strategy and the Supported Housing Strategy, and also the homelessness and long term rough sleeper action plans.

The core focus is to ensure the delivery of key strategy documents in the next 6-9 months, working alongside officers and consultants.

Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities / KRA: Housing Strategy Officer

Actively contribute to the development, production, and implementation of the Council's housing-related strategies, sub-strategies, and action plans, ensuring homelessness prevention and affordable housing remain core strategic elements, specifically the Housing Strategy, the Supported Housing Strategy and relevant actions plans relating to homelessness and rough sleeping.

To arrange and facilitate consultation sessions with a wide range of organisations, members and residents to ensure appropriate consultation has been undertaken and support the work of appointed consultants involved with individual strategies.

To lead on the preparation of relevant reports and documents to facilitate the consultation and delivery processes of key strategies, including preparing reports for Council decisions.

Collate, interpret and report relevant data sets in developing the required evidence bases for the delivery of housing related strategies.

To actively contribute to drafting of actions plans linked to housing-related strategies and lead on arranging working groups/meetings to progress and monitor actions.

To ensure public and website information is up to date.

Other

Main Purpose of Job: Housing Strategy Officer

General information: Housing Strategy Officer

The post holder will be required to comply with organisation’s policies and procedures.

The organisation has a no smoking policy. Staff are not permitted to smoke on any of the organisation’s premises nor in any vehicle used on organisation business.

This Job Description covers the main duties and responsibilities of the job and will be subject review and amendment, in consultation with the post holder, to meet the changing needs of the organisation.

Other activities commensurate with this Job Description may from time to time be undertaken by the post holder.