Diversity And Inclusion jobs in United Kingdom

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About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Partnerships Team as a Housing Regulation & Partnerships Manager. In this role you will lead the development of relationships with housing partners across our borough, including private registered providers of social housing, co-operatives, charities, and other key stakeholders: to ensure that we jointly deliver our core functions in accordance with regulation; and realise our shared goals.

Your professional accountability is to provide assurance that the Council is compliant with all statutory and regulatory requirements relating to its partners, developing action plans and remediations where we are deficient, taking enabling and direct actions to ensure that our shared goals are achieved and that we have a positive impact on the lives of our tenants and residents.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

• You will line-manage directly one Housing Partnerships Assistant Service Manager and through them a team of project, delivery and improvement officers.
• Be fully accountable for the management, planning and coordination of strategic relationships with key housing partners, delegating operational tasks to the assistant service manager, as necessary. Represent the service corporately and with partners, deputising for your manager and head of service as required.
• Lead, motivate and develop your team to build strategic partnerships with key housing stakeholders, providing analysis, diagnostic, advice and support for strategies and working practices that improve joint outputs and outcomes for residents, and provide quality assurance and evidence of efficiency and value for money for participating organisations.
• Monitor team resources including the budget, ICT and mobile working equipment, and customer information. Ensure that all data held by the team is fair, accurate and secure so that resources are put to appropriate use to deliver an efficient service.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• You are an expert in housing with significant knowledge and experience of preparing and implementing housing policies, procedures, formal reports and presentations in a local authority or registered provider setting.
• You have excellent partnership working skills, are able to navigate problem solving within large and complex organisations, taking a collaborative approach to finding solutions, while operating effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources, with experience of managing or supervising staff.
• You communicate effectively with a range of internal and external audiences, including tenants, elected members and colleagues of all levels; you will have experience of both resident engagement and engagement in a business-to-business setting.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Benjamin.Tomlinson@hounslow.gov.uk

Closing date – 29^th September 2025

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 6th October 2025.

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