Company: Manchester City Council
Location: Manchester
Salary: £71,624 - £77,549
Director – This City
Company: Manchester City Council
Salary: £71,624 - £77,549
Location: Town Hall Extension, Manchester M20 6LA
Salary Grade SS2 £71,624 to £77,549
Permanent, full time.
Application deadline: 28 September 2022
Job Reference: MCC/473845/GD/SR
Manchester City Council is seeking an exceptional leader to drive forward our ambitions for This City.
This City is a new kind of housing company: we don’t just construct housing – we plan and build homes to create communities – a great company putting a unique Manchester twist on how and why homes are built and managed.
We’re a new venture that will develop high quality, low-carbon housing for Mancunians. This includes building accessible homes available at or below the Local Housing Allowance level, which means they will be accessible to people on housing benefit.
Our ambition is to build up to 500 a year, making sure growth benefits the people of Manchester, raising the bar by making good quality housing available to more Mancunians.
Whilst the first phases are being delivered using Council land and Council funding our longer-term ambition is to work with investment partners to scale up delivery.
With the first two This City schemes progressing we are now seeking a This City Director to take the company to the next level.
The role involves:
- Ensuring the successful delivery of the Rodney Street and Postal Street schemes and leading the development of a portfolio of future sites, from site identification, through to planning, construction, completion and handover
- Negotiating funding and investment opportunities with public and private sector partners, ensuring that these are structured appropriately to deliver the core This City principles
- Working with colleagues and wider stakeholders to ensure that This City objectives and activities are aligned with wider strategic objectives and activities to promote the growth and development of Manchester
The successful candidate will:
- Have an excellent track record in housing delivery, commercial acumen, and business knowledge of Council created / owned housing delivery vehicles with insight into best practice delivery models that secure complex business objectives
- Have experience of effectively planning and managing multi-million-pound complex investment budgets and development funding regimes
- Have worked as a senior professional with, and being accountable to, company Boards, Client representatives, and external stakeholders
- Have the ability to react to immediate problems of a highly complex nature with associated risk factors and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under extreme pressure
- Be able to demonstrate experience of working with Senior Elected Members and demonstrates a high level of political awareness
For an informal discussion about the role please contact David.lynch@manchester.gov.uk
Find out more here:
Manchester submits plans for debut This City project – Place North West
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