Principal Regeneration Officer (Housing Delivery)

Posting date:	27 June 2025
Salary:	£55,000 to £58,000 per year
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	Northampton, NN1 1ED
Company:	West Northamptonshire Council
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	Ref/14021/5275

Summary

The Major Projects and Regeneration teams are part of the Place directorate, enabling close collaboration with our housing colleagues. This service area is responsible for implementing West Northamptonshire Council’s regeneration vision and delivering major projects across the local authority. This includes shaping and communicating the Council’s ambitions for how our places are developed, accessed, and perceived.

The Principal Regeneration Officer (Housing Delivery) will lead and manage the delivery of complex capital projects, with a focus on a variety of housing schemes assigned by the Head of Major Projects and Regeneration and the Major Projects Manager, in coordination with the Housing Strategy Team.

The role encompasses full project management responsibilities, securing funding agreements, ensuring timely delivery of council-led capital projects, and procuring development partners or investors for key development sites. The officer will work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders throughout.

Our benefits

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What will you be doing?

As a Principal Officer within the Major Projects Team, you will lead the Council’s housing development and regeneration activity, bringing your expertise in housing delivery to manage complex projects from inception through to completion. Acting as Project Manager on a range of housing-led schemes, you will work closely with senior management, contributing to key decisions and driving forward strategic regeneration objectives.

You will play a central role in negotiating major regeneration projects, often involving high-value and complex transactions, engaging with both private stakeholders and public sector partners. A critical aspect of the role involves ensuring that senior officers, Members, the Housing Strategy Team, and relevant boards are kept fully informed through regular, accurate reporting on project progress, key risks, and overall performance.

In this role, you will also take operational responsibility for project budgets, including direct budget management where required and taking corrective action when necessary to ensure financial control. You will oversee risk across the regeneration programme, implementing effective risk management strategies to safeguard project outcomes.

Your guidance and advice will be instrumental within the Major Projects Team, across other internal teams, and to external partners on housing development and regeneration matters. Additionally, you will support the delivery of the Council’s Housing Strategy and contribute to achieving the broader socio-economic goals outlined in the Council’s Strategic Corporate Plan, Community Strategy, and Economic Development Strategy.

About us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

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We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

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