Housing Lead

The Housing Lead will develop, lead and manage Coin Street’s housing strategy to ensure that it is high quality, resident-focused and effective in delivering Coin Street’s overall objectives and complies with regulatory requirements and ensures a viable and resilient service.

Duties include:
1. To advise the leadership team and CSS board on all housing matters. To lead on reports to and servicing of CSS meetings and ensure that agreed actions are followed up.
2. To lead on the development of Coin Street Group’s housing strategy and plan.
3. To ensure that CSS complies with all regulatory requirements and landlord responsibilities and that leases are reviewed and renewed in a timely fashion.
4. To develop and maintain good relationships with Coin Street housing co-operatives, their staff/managing agents, and their members, including availability to attend evening meetings with co-operatives.
6. To liaise with the Property and Facilities Management Team, Coin Street housing co-operatives and residents to ensure repairs and maintenance issues are dealt with in a timely fashion and major works projects are progressed (where the landlords responsibility).

Educated to degree level or equivalent membership of relevant professional body and/or equivalent experience in Housing

Significant experience of housing policy and housing management including a thorough understanding of statutory regulation and legislative requirements.

Demonstrable ability to provide strategic leadership and direction in a manner that secures commitment and ownership

Demonstrable experience of developing and delivering high quality, effective and improving services

Thorough understanding of working effectively within a political environment, providing clear, balanced advice and guidance on strategic issues that achieve organisational and service objectives

Demonstrable experience of business planning, particularly managing budgets and projects within financial constraints and regulations

Knowledge of a wide range of models for creating affordable housing, particularly housing co-operatives

Experience of working with customers, landlords and tenants and involving them in shaping and monitoring policy and service delivery

We provide the opportunities and spaces for people to lead their own change.

Our activities are wide and far reaching. From giving families and children the best start in life through our childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality live, work and play spaces on land which we own.

We promote enterprise, creativity and lifelong learning whether that’s through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise or delivering programmes and activities. We provide housing that supports our community; we champion co-operative housing and influence local and national housing policy.

From sports and dance to healthy eating and gardening, we offer a range of facilities and activities accessible to everyone to support health and wellbeing in our community.

Coin Street has successfully developed 220 award-winning co-operative homes on social rents, housing over 1000 people and making a significant contribution to the housing landscape of Waterloo and North Southwark. We champion co-operative housing without the ‘right to buy’. We will be creating more co-op homes for those who can afford ‘intermediate’ rents, to be allocated to people working in and for our community. A nursing home is planned as part of the permanent development of Gabriel’s Wharf.

Income that we generate is invested in the neighbourhood. It is used to improve and maintain our assets including managing and maintaining Bernie Spain Gardens and the riverside walkway, providing a range of programmes and activities for local people.