Locality Manager

Job Title: Locality Manager

Head Office Location: Brindley Place, Birmingham

Job Location: Chippenham Methuen Park

Salary - £33.400- £41.800 (£750 + Car Allowance) per annum

Contract type - Permanent

Working hours - Full Time

Closing Date - 15 November 2024

Interview Date - TBC

About the role

You will be responsible for the delivery of locally focussed high quality, impactful tenancy management services to tenants within half of one of the four localities; leading a team of customer-facing Housing Officers across our General Needs Rented schemes.

Your role will be to lead, enthuse and motivate field-based teams to deliver a locality-based tenancy management offer to customers.

You will be responsible for customer-first tenancy management services including but not limited to: mutual exchanges, estate inspections, ASB, successions, tenancy fraud, and assignments.

You will engage in their Locality Management Board structure; working collaboratively to achieve set targets for the benefit of the customers and communities within the locality they operate within.

Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer.

About you

You will have strong housing legislation knowledge.

You will have a Housing or related qualification.

You will hold BTEC HND/HNC or equivalent ability or vocabulary, verbal reasoning and numerical skills to equivalent level.

You must understand landlord legislation, including (but not limited to); succession, mutual exchange, assignments & ASB.

You will be able to demonstrate experience of excellent customer service.

You will have a minimum of 2 years direct line management experience, working in a customer-facing environment, including allocating resource.

Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require evidence of the required certificates and qualifications for this role. Without this evidence, you would be unable to commence employment at GreenSquareAccord.

About us

GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England.

We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.

We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.

Our purpose

We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently.

Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that`s providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life.

Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen.

Working for GreenSquareAccord gives you the chance to bring your skills and expertise and make a real difference. It doesn`t matter which role you are considering applying for, your work will help thousands of people build a better life.

The GSA Way

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.

A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.

Our five core commitments are:

- We believe our customer is everything

- We are one team

- We are supportive and caring

- We are business-minded for social purpose

- We are curious and ambitious.

You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.

Benefits

In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

GreenSquareAccord also offer a non-contractual performance-related bonus scheme. Further details will be made available upon joining, along with supporting documentation which can be found on the GreenSquareAccord intranet site.

All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy.

GreenSquareAccord are a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the `essential eligibility criteria` for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview.

If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.