About the role
Are you passionate about shaping communities and delivering affordable housing solutions? Join North Northamptonshire Council as a Strategic Housing Officer and play a key role in enabling sustainable, inclusive growth across the region.
As a Strategic Housing Officer, you’ll work at the heart of housing strategy and delivery. Collaborating with planners, developers, housing associations, and legal teams, you’ll help ensure that affordable housing meets the needs of our diverse communities
What will you be doing?
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the Council’s housing strategy and enabling functions.
- Negotiate and manage Section 106 agreements to secure affordable housing across developments.
- Support the regeneration and development of local neighbourhoods through new housing initiatives.
- Influence planning policy and contribute to planning application consultations.
- Use data and research to support strategic decisions on housing needs and demand.
- Contribute to the development and review of key strategic documents, including the Housing Strategy.
- Deputise for the Senior Strategic Housing Officer when required.
About you
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Experienced in housing strategy, planning, or development.
- Skilled in partnership working and negotiation.
- Analytical, with the ability to interpret housing data and trends.
- A strong communicator with a collaborative mindset.
- Passionate about delivering positive outcomes for communities.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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