Housing Strategy Officer

Civic Recruitment Limited; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Civic Recruitment Limited in Kingston upon Thames seeks a practitioner to support the development and delivery of housing strategies and homelessness action plans. You will work with officers and consultants to ensure key documents are produced and consulted on.

The role involves facilitating consultations, drafting reports, and developing evidence bases to inform council decisions, with a focus on homelessness prevention and affordable housing.

Qualifications

• Experience in housing strategy development, homelessness prevention, or affordable housing initiatives.
• Experience arranging and facilitating consultations with stakeholders, public bodies, and residents.
• Proven track record of collating, interpreting, and reporting data to form evidence bases.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, production, and implementation of housing-related strategies, sub-strategies, and action plans.
• Ensure homelessness prevention and affordable housing remain core strategic elements.
• Arrange and facilitate consultation sessions with a wide range of organisations, members, and residents.
• Lead the preparation of relevant reports and documents to facilitate consultation and Council decision-making processes.
• Collate, interpret, and report relevant data sets to develop required evidence bases for strategy delivery.
• Contribute to drafting action plans and arrange working groups/meetings to progress and monitor actions.
• Ensure public and website information is kept up to date.

Skills

Housing strategy

Stakeholder consultations

Data reporting

Public sector

Job description

Contract | Civic Recruitment Limited | United Kingdom

Job Information

Work Experience 1-3 years

Community & Social

City Kingston upon Thames

Province Kingston upon Thames

Postal Code KT1

Job Description

5 Months Contract with a local authority

Summary

• We are seeking a professional to support the development, consultation, and delivery of the Housing Strategy, Supported Housing Strategy, and homelessness/rough sleeper action plans. You will work alongside officers and appointed consultants to ensure key strategy documents are delivered.
  

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, production, and implementation of housing-related strategies, sub-strategies, and action plans.
  
• Ensure homelessness prevention and affordable housing remain core strategic elements.
  
• Arrange and facilitate consultation sessions with a wide range of organisations, members, and residents.
  
• Lead the preparation of relevant reports and documents to facilitate consultation and Council decision-making processes.
  
• Collate, interpret, and report relevant data sets to develop required evidence bases for strategy delivery.
  
• Contribute to drafting action plans and arrange working groups/meetings to progress and monitor actions.
  
• Ensure public and website information is kept up to date.
  

Experience

• Experience in housing strategy development, homelessness prevention, or affordable housing initiatives.
  
• Experience arranging and facilitating consultations with stakeholders, public bodies, and residents.
  
• Proven track record of collating, interpreting, and reporting data to form evidence bases.
  

Additional Information

• Working hours: 21 hours per week.
  
• This is an onsite role in Kingston.
  
• Working pattern:typically 2 days in office, 1 day in office, will vary during statutory consultation period