Housing Manager

Essential Employment; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Employment in Portsmouth is seeking a Housing Manager to provide strategic leadership across a broad housing portfolio, shaping complex operational services while ensuring robust financial control and full legislative compliance. The role focuses on homelessness prevention, tenancy management, and delivering customer-focused, resilient services.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and drive improvements to meet evolving demands for tenants,

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading housing services and teams.
• Strong financial management and governance.
• Knowledge of housing policy and homelessness prevention.
• Ability to deliver customer-focused services.

Responsibilities

• Provide decisive strategic leadership across a housing portfolio.
• Ensure financial control and legislative compliance.
• Oversee tenancy management and housing needs.
• Drive service improvements for tenants and vulnerable residents.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and manage stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic leadership

Financial controls

Compliance

Stakeholder management

People management

Policy development

Job description

Housing Manager needed in Portsmouth

This is a temporary role and the rate is £34.04ph PAYE

The reference number is: 5307679

The successful candidate will provide decisive strategic leadership across a wide-ranging housing portfolio, shaping the direction of complex operational services while ensuring robust financial control, full legislative compliance, and consistently high performance standards. They will champion effective homelessness prevention, oversee housing needs and tenancy management, and drive improvements that enhance the experience of tenants, leaseholders, and vulnerable residents. With a strong focus on community wellbeing, cohesion, and support programmes, they will lead multidisciplinary teams, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and deliver customer‑focused, resilient services that continually evolve to meet changing demands.