Job Title: Engagement & Place Officer
Hours: Full Time (37 hours per week – Monday to Friday)
Salary: £28,858 per annum
Location: Flexible (Homeworking/Office) with visits to Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) is the leading not-for-profit membership body for councils, Combined Authorities, and social housing providers across the North of England, with 50 years of expertise and influence.
What we are looking for
We have an exciting vacancy for someone with strong project management and people skills to join our well-established Member Engagement team. Our members are our priority, and this role is key in supporting our members to create great homes and places and strengthen local decision making.
Knowledge of housing, regeneration and the wider work of NHC members is desirable though not essential.
This is an exciting role cutting across policy and practice, the right candidate will:
- Support the organisation of NHC Member Networks and wider events programme, central to our work sharing and developing the latest thinking, fostering collaboration, and highlighting good practice.
- Work closely with the Policy and External Relations team, ensuring that the NHC’s influencing work is both informed by, and communicated to, the NHC members you’ll work with on a daily basis.
Reporting to the Senior Engagement Manager, you’ll support the team in delivering key elements of the member engagement strategy, with a focus on our work with Mayoral Combined Authorities and Local Authorities. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who can build and maintain relationships, identify opportunities and communicate confidently with a wide range of external stakeholders.
We’re looking for a self-starter who can demonstrate confidence and excellent people and project management skills, with the ability to communicate well with people at all levels within our membership and beyond.
You will have strong written and verbal skills, and able to react quickly to new situations that arise and be hands-on when required. You will be a team player and confident at managing projects and multiple workstreams.
The successful candidate will:
- Work in a friendly and flexible environment with excellent benefits.
- Expand your profile across the whole of the housing sector, meet influential people and build your networks.
- Build knowledge and expertise on the key themes the role will deal with; devolution, regeneration, net zero, and the wider operating context of the housing sector in the North
We are flexible around working patterns and will consider applications for the role on a part-time basis between 30 to 37 hours per week, flexible across Monday – Friday.
What we can offer
The NHC is a small team, but we make a difference. We aim to offer a rewarding, supportive place to work where we invest in people, and they can be themselves and fulfil their potential, celebrating achievements along the way. We have a modern effective working environment. We have always been an agile organisation, and we continue to utilise technology to ensure work is something you do, not just somewhere you go. We are fully committed to supporting our staff to work in a flexible way that allows them to balance their commitments inside and outside of work. We want our people to work in a way that lets them be at their best, whether that’s in our hub office in Sunderland or remotely anywhere in the UK, (although you will be required to travel to our Sunderland office periodically to carry out face-to-face work with colleagues).
Through staff collaboration we have achieved a Gold accreditation for wellbeing through the Better Health at Work awards.
We value all our staff for the expertise and perspectives they bring to our organisation. We work in an inclusive way, celebrating our diversity whilst working together as one. With this in mind, we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
- Flexible working arrangements
- The ability to work from a location which suits you
- Workplace pension scheme offering above statutory contributions
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increases by one day per year to 30 days)
- Access to Benenden Healthcare and Employee Assistance Programme
- Bespoke training & development opportunities, including payment towards gaining professional qualifications
- Mental health and wellbeing supportive employer including our Wellbeing hub with discounts to gyms and numerous online stores
To apply for this role, please send your CV and cover letter which demonstrates how you meet the requirements to enquiries@northern-consortium.org.uk by Friday 2nd May. Interviews will take place Monday 12th May.
For an informal discussion, please contact Liam Gregson, Senior Engagement Manager (Devolution and Place Lead) liam.gregson@northern-consortium.org.uk
