Projects Manager

Homes England; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Homes England seeks a proactive Manager to progress delivery of regional priorities in the London & East Region, coordinating projects from Oxford to other areas, including new settlements and regeneration schemes. You will lead planning, commissioning and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams to ensure timely delivery.

You will drive pipeline development and shape longer-term strategies while balancing day-to-day delivery under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Requires strong project management skills to deliver complex development opportunities.
• Ability to build and manage relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and influence outcomes.
• Commercial and operational awareness with understanding of planning, infrastructure, regeneration or related sectors.
• Experience in procurement and management of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and limited answers.

Responsibilities

• Progress delivery of Homes England priorities in the London & East Region and create a pipeline of projects.
• Coordinate delivery of projects in Oxford, Oxfordshire, or elsewhere in the region, including major regeneration schemes.
• Lead project planning, commissioning and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Balance day-to-day delivery with shaping longer-term strategies and pipeline development.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Negotiation

Team leadership

Education

Degree level qualification or MRICS MRTPI or urban regeneration specialist or development finance

Job description

Application closing date: 23/08/2026

Interviews will take place: Week commencing 07/09/2026

A bit about the role...

You will progress delivery of HMG priorities in the London & East Region. You will help create a pipeline of projects and coordinate their delivery, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, or elsewhere in the region, including projects that will transform places and communities including new settlements, major urban extensions, and regeneration schemes, while applying expert commercial and development knowledge to help make them a reality.

As a Manager, you will manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment and delivery, leading project planning and commissioning, and supporting collaboration. The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic and complex projects.

This role offers the chance to balance day-to-day delivery with shaping longer-term strategies, pipeline development and innovative approaches to development.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of housing delivery and create sustainable, thriving communities. You’ll work on nationally significant projects, collaborate with leading experts, and make a real impact on people’s lives.

A bit about you…

You’ll be comfortable working on complex development opportunities, applying strong project management skills to support partners and colleagues to navigate challenges and unlock delivery, including on projects where there may be competing priorities, viability issues or infrastructure constraints.

You will be confident in building and managing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and able to influence and negotiate to achieve positive outcomes.

You will bring commercial and operational awareness andan understanding of planning, development, infrastructure, regeneration or related sectors.

You will enjoy working in a fast paced environment with short deadlines where not all the questions yet have answers, and you will need to be able to negotiate and persuade.

You’ll understand how to work with multidisciplinary project teams and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

You will ideally have a background in working on complex projects, with experience of identifying and overcoming development constraints with awareness of key technical project risks, and implementation of appropriate mitigation strategies.

The applicant will also ideally have experience in the procurement and management of multi-disciplinary teams.

Essential: degree level qualification or equivalent experience as a: Chartered Surveyor (MRICS), Town Planner (MRTPI), urban regeneration specialist or experience in development finance.

As a manager, you will be asked to support on a number of projects that require various property development skills and knowledge. We appreciate you may not have all of the skills/experience listed in the job description.

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

• As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
• Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
• Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
• If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.
• Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
• If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.
• Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.

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