Compliance Officer - FTC

Southern Housing; Sittingbourne; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent housing provider is seeking a Compliance Officer to join its Asset Compliance team in Sittingbourne. This role involves supporting the team with various administrative tasks, managing resident queries, and ensuring accurate data in compliance with social housing regulations. Applicants should have experience in asset management or compliance, a solid understanding of compliance requirements, and proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel. The position is offered on a fixed-term basis until June 30, 2026, with hybrid work options.

Benefits

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle to work

Buy & sell

Annual leave

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience working within social housing compliance.
• Understanding compliance areas for housing organisations.
• Proven experience managing data quality for compliance.
• Strong MS Office skills, particularly in Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Support Compliance Manager with various tasks.
• Ensure accurate data maintenance in records and systems.
• Provide project support on key administrative projects.
• Handle resident queries and arrange access.

Skills

Experience within Asset Management or Compliance service

Understanding of Compliance requirements

Experience of performance-based management through KPI's

Managing and analysing large data sets

MS Office proficiency, especially Excel and Word

Job description

The role

We're looking for an exceptional individual to join our Asset Compliance team as a Compliance Officer to support the team with a wide variety of tasks and activities.

You will need to demonstrate a genuine interest in, and understanding of, social housing compliance and be ready to work in a team to provide support activity that will include administrative tasks, arranging access, resident queries, data entry and ensuring accurate data is held within Apex and other systems.

You will be working with data and ensuring all information is reflected and maintained correctly in our records and systems as well as provide support to the Compliance Manager and provide project support to the team on key administrative projects as required.

This role is offered on a Fixed Term Basis until 30 June 2026. The role is based in our Sittingbourne office and is offered on hybrid model of work.

What you'll need:

• Experience of working within Asset Management or Compliance service, especially within a social housing environment
• Understanding of Compliance areas and requirements on housing organisations
• Proven experience of performance-based management through KPI's in a customer focused environment
• Experience of managing and analysing large data sets, and ensuring taking responsibility for quality compliance data, and to produce management reports
• Experience with MS Office and excellent knowledge of excel and word applications

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above five criteria providing real examples.

Closing Date: 18th of January 2026 (Sunday) at 23:59pm

Shortlisting Date: week commencing 19th of January 2026

Interview Date: week commencing 26th of January 2026

Please note:

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application and supporting statement as soon as possible so your application can be reviewed and considered.

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell
• Annual leave
• Season ticket loan

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.