Head of Property Compliance

Aster Group Ltd.; Andover; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social housing provider is seeking a Head of Property Compliance to lead the strategic oversight and assurance of compliance activities, ensuring customers' safety in their homes. The successful candidate will provide strong leadership, manage a large social housing asset portfolio, and collaborate across departments. This hybrid role requires excellent data analysis skills and a professional qualification in a related discipline. A full UK driving licence is also essential.

Benefits

Flexible working

Focus on colleague wellbeing

Defined Contribution Pension

Volunteering hours

Savings at cinemas and gyms

Enhanced leave

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in a construction or building safety discipline equivalent to a degree.
• Significant experience in managing compliance for a large social housing portfolio.
• Ability to extract and analyze data, identifying trends and completing gap analysis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic oversight for property compliance activities.
• Monitor performance targets and ensure team clarity on objectives.
• Lead procurement of third-party compliance checks and manage contracts.

Skills

Data analysis

Property compliance

Coaching and mentoring

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in construction or building safety

Job description

As Head of Property Compliance you'll be leading the team that delivers strategic oversight and direction for activities which are designed to keep our customers safe in their homes. You'll be a member of the Health & Safety leadership team, with responsibility for strategic property compliance whilst delivering a programme of assurance in relation to the compliance.

You’ll come to the role having built your career in property compliance, with the ability to deliver effective assurance in relation to compliance activities that are in line with statutory, regulatory and policy requirements.

A key responsibility for the role will be data validation alongside second line assurance of all compliance workstream operations, records and data.

Key Accountabilities

• Delivering the property compliance and building safety strategic priorities and plans
• Agreeing, monitoring and being accountable for performance targets, ensuring the team have clear objectives that support the delivery of the strategic priorities
• Ensuring an effective property compliance 2nd line assurance function is in place
• Leading on the effective and compliant procurement of suitably qualified and high performing external suppliers of third‑party compliance checks, effective contract mobilisation and effective contract performance management
• Supporting the wider business with advice and guidance on all property and building safety compliance related matters.

The Aster Offer

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

Qualifications

You’ll come to the role professionally qualified in a construction or building safety related discipline at degree level or equivalent and will be able to demonstrate your relevant career experience.

You will have significant experience in managing the compliance aspects of a large social housing asset portfolio and working in social housing property compliance at senior manager or Head of Service level.

You’ll naturally lean toward a coaching style and will be able to use this to enhance the skills, knowledge and capability with your team and the wider business.

You won’t be phased by data analysis and will be able to extract and analyse data from large datasets. You'll be able to spot trends and complete gap analysis, writing clear and concise reports and business cases to enable senior leaders to make fully informed strategic decisions.

You’ll understand how business activities in Procurement, Finance, ICT, Governance and Health and Safety can all play a part in great outcomes and you will be able to develop strong working relationships with these teams to ensure property compliance is a factor whenever appropriate.

This is a hybrid role and as such you can choose to base yourself mostly from home. There will be the need to attend meetings face to face from time to time so having a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes will be important.

Aster has £2.5 billion worth of social housing assets with a diverse mix of houses, high and medium rise buildings, care homes and commercial property. The Group is also an active developer and reinvests profits from open market sale and shared ownership to support the development of affordable homes. It owns and maintains over 37,000 homes and employs over 2,000 people.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & its subsidiary brands.