Senior Housing Manager

Job Title: Senior Housing Manager

Location: Home or London office based, with travel to London and nationally when required

Job Type: Full-time, permanent contract

Salary range per annum: £40,482 - £44,482

Closing date: 09:00 on Tuesday 30th May 2023

Potential interview date: 6th / 8th June 2023

The opportunity

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated candidate to join our Housing team at Standing Together. If you are someone who shares our passion to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable groups then we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a new Senior Housing Manager, who will lead STADA’s Housing Team as we work together to improve the housing and homelessness sector’s response to domestic abuse, so that all victims and survivors can achieve safety and housing security.

The Senior Housing Manager will oversee the work of our housing team programmes, including the Housing First & Homelessness, the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA), and the Whole Housing Approach programmes. They will have responsibility for the overall funding, development, and delivery of the programmes, and provide support and supervision to the three programme managers. The Senior Housing Manager will also lead our external affairs work, building strong working relationships with key stakeholders and sector partners, including chairing the DAHA-led National Housing & Domestic Abuse Policy & Practice Group, which brings together 29 housing, homelessness and violence against women and girls (VAWG) sector partners to influence national policy and practice.

This role will also be a integral part to our Leadership team and will have input in leading, developing and contributing to our Organisational strategy.

To fulfil this role, we are looking for someone who is confident and excited to lead a large team to achieve a shared mission and objectives. They will have expertise in working at a strategic level to impact change in response to domestic abuse, housing, and homelessness issues. They will have a track record for building strategic partners and impacting change in both policy and practice at a national and/or local level. They will already be confident and experienced in providing support and supervision to other managers and providing clear and consistent communication and direction to a large team. For a full list of the personal specification, please see the job description attached.

About us

Standing Together was founded 20 years ago with the ambition to eradicate domestic abuse by transforming the way organisations and individuals think about, prevent, and respond to it.

We are a national charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse. Standing Together pioneered the Coordinated Community Response (CCR) approach in the UK, a multi-agency partnership model for keeping survivors safe and holding abusers to account. The Housing Team at STADA, focuses on responding to the housing and homelessness needs of victims/survivors of domestic abuse, through influencing national and local policy and practice, across all relevant agencies, but with a particular focus on the role of the housing and homelessness sector as a part of a Coordinated Community Response to domestic abuse.

Benefits:

25 annual leave days Holiday plus all English bank holidays

1 day's leave for religious / cultural observation

Generous Pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Training and development opportunities

Applicants must have existing Right to Work in the UK

Here at STADA, we do not discriminate in employment based on race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, national origin, marital status, medical history, parental status or genetic information. STADA is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

For more information

If you have any questions, or think you may be interested in this role, please contact the current Senior Housing Manager, Deidre Cartwright, by emailing d.cartwright@standingtogether.org.uk.

Please also look at the job description and personal specification, which you can download from this page (on the righthand corner).

Interviews

Interviews will take place on either 6th or 8th June 2023. We will email you if you’ve been successfully shortlisted to arrange an interview time.