Head of Development & Sustainability

Details:

Location: Edinburgh / Hybrid

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday

Remuneration: £56,888 - £64,491 per annum

Closing Date: 9th December 2022

Hanover has been successfully housing and supporting people in Scotland for over 40 years. Our strategic aims are to have happy customers, desirable homes and a resilient organisation.

About the Role

Are you an experienced development manager with a track record of delivering success? Are you someone who can innovative and lead the development of a new strategy to deliver our sustainability goals and motivate others to succeed? Do you have the core values to work with a leading specialist housing association? Do you want to help us shape the next chapter of a sector leading organisation?

If so, our Head of Development & Sustainability post will offer you the opportunity to join our Senior Management Team and contribute to our overall business improvement and transformation strategy as well as shape this new role within the organisation.

More specifically you will lead the creation of our ambitious new build and remodelling programme and our organisational wide sustainability plan. You will be located in our Assets Service but work closely with all our teams to ensure what we build and where we build is sector leading, helps older people be independent and achieves our sustainability goals.

We are looking for a candidate that can identify with the values of the organisation, share our ambition for Hanover and the customers we serve and provide the drive and energy to achieve our outcomes.

This role is responsible to the Director of Strategic Asset Management and an integral part of the Senior Management Team. You will work closely with the CEO, Directors and the Senior Management Team with collective responsibility to provide robust systems and frameworks to achieve our strategic objectives.

This is a complex role requiring the skilful balancing of multiple work streams underpinned with strong leadership qualities including:

• Demonstrating a wide understanding of the sustainability agenda, the opportunities this present to housing associations and how this will allow us to meet net zero
• Ability to co-create and deliver strategies and plans that meet our overarching strategic objectives
• Communicating, collaborating and influencing to cement strategic alliances and partnership working

These form the pillars on which your success in this new role will be built. If you can bring these attributes and values and want to be part of the Hanover team then we can offer a competitive package and the opportunity to be part of a thriving, innovative team that is making real impact and changing lives for the better.

What We Offer

Aside from offering a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated, we’ll see that your hard work and drive to succeed are rewarded:

• Competitive salary and pension options
• Hybrid Working
• Flexi time
• Childcare vouchers
• Employee Health and Wellbeing Support Service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Family friendly policies

Hanover is an equal opportunity and disability confident employer.

Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association Ltd

Scottish Charity no: SC 014738

Contact information

To find out about working with Hanover, contact us on 0800 111 4646 or email at recruit@hanover.scot