Senior Homelessness Policy Officer
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG2 3NG |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4757 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £44,711 (Level one) rising to £47,754 (Level four) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The postholder will assist the Homelessness Strategy Manager to devise, mobilise and lead high level projects which will prevent and relieve homelessness for the citizens of Nottingham. This will involve internal and external partnership orchestration, cross-sector stakeholder coordination, service design, strategic commissioning and the management of contracts and grant agreements.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Thorough knowledge of homelessness legislation, local and national policy drivers and current issues relating to homelessness prevention and rough sleeping
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders and partners on housing related projects to achieve shared outcomes and meet local needs within budgetary agreements.
- Experience of performance management , able to set goals and targets and take appropriate mitigating action when necessary
- Excellent standard of literacy and communication skills. Able to produce clear and accurately written documentation for a range of audiences, reflective of service users, providers, policy makers, senior managers and politicians.
- Experience of presenting business cases and project updates to a variety of Boards and understanding the level of detail required for each
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Rachael Harding, Homelessness Strategy Manager by email at rachael.harding@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 16th May 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: Monday 2nd June or Tuesday 3rd June 2025
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