Strategy Principal Officer
*Hourly rate: £26.78 per hour PAYE / £34.22 per hourUmbrella.
*Location: Salford Civic Centre
*Job Type: Full-time
*Length of role: (12 months)
Join the dynamic Housing Strategy Team at Salford City Council during an exciting time of development and change. We are seeking a Strategy Principal Officer to lead the development of Salford’s supported housing needs assessment, a new supported housing strategy, delivery plan, and monitoring framework. This role is crucial in meeting the statutory requirements of the Supported Housing Regulatory Oversight Act.
Day-to-day of the role:
*Plan, develop, and produce key strategic housing plans for the City within agreed timescales, and set up frameworks to monitor the delivery of associated action plans.
*Facilitate housing partnerships/governance forums, communicating with key colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to ensure effective partnership working and the delivery of key local and regional priorities.
*Work with partners across GM to support the delivery of regional and sub-regional strategic housing work as appropriate.
*Represent strategic housing services at meetings.
*Assess the impact of national and regional housing-related legislation, guidance, and policy, as well as wider crosscutting strategic priorities, to ensure that strategy/policy responses reflect these.
*Respond to national, regional, and local consultations on housing issues.
*Undertake a range of research and data collection/analysis to inform relevant needs assessments - to provide an evidence base to support strategy and policy development.
*Engage with people with lived experience and key stakeholders, including co-production, to further inform Salford’s strategic plans.
*Work closely with key information holders to ensure statutory statistical returns are prepared/submitted to the relevant government departments in a timely and accurate manner.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
*Excellent verbal and writing skills, including experience of writing reports, strategies, and briefing/policy papers to a range of audiences and presenting to a wide range of audiences.
*Experience of delivering to timescales, working under pressure, and prioritising own workload.
*Experience of/excellent skills in collecting, collating, analysing, and interpreting data from a wide variety of sources and presenting that information in an understandable format to a wide range of stakeholders.
*Experience of/excellent skills in co-production, engagement, and consultation with wider stakeholders and people with lived experience.
*Good project management skills and the ability to work with individuals and organisations to deliver projects.
*Good stakeholder management skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels i.e., political and officers and across sectors.
*A knowledge and understanding of housing/housing-related/homelessness issues at a City, regional, and national level.
*Professional approach/attitude, including the ability to demonstrate an objective approach to cases.
*Awareness of, and commitment to, the principles of diversity, with particular emphasis on their application to housing issues and customer care.
*Knowledge and skills to use a range of computer programs to interrogate and test raw data such as Excel and Access.