Job Description

Assistant Director of Housing Solutions & Rough Sleeping Services

Permanent

Grade B01 - £87,724 - £130,531

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.

Are you an experienced housing leader with a passion for preventing homelessness, improving housing outcomes and supporting some of the city's most vulnerable residents?

Birmingham City Council is seeking an exceptional Assistant Director to lead our Housing Solutions & Rough Sleeping Services. This is a high-profile leadership role with responsibility for shaping and delivering services that prevent homelessness, provide effective housing solutions and drive forward the city's response to rough sleeping.

You'll lead large, complex services through a period of transformation, ensuring statutory responsibilities are delivered effectively while driving innovation, partnership working and continuous improvement across the housing system.

About the Role

As Assistant Director, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across housing solutions, homelessness prevention and rough sleeping services, ensuring services are resident-focused, outcome-driven and aligned to the Council's wider housing ambitions.

You will:

• Lead the development and delivery of homelessness prevention, housing solutions and rough sleeping strategies.
• Drive service improvement, transformation and innovation to improve outcomes for residents.
• Build strong partnerships with health, social care, voluntary sector and housing providers.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory homelessness and housing duties.
• Lead large multidisciplinary teams, fostering a high-performance and customer-focused culture.
• Manage significant budgets, resources and commissioned services to achieve value for money.
• Provide strategic advice and support to senior leaders, elected members and key stakeholders.

About You

We are looking for a senior housing professional who can demonstrate:

• Significant leadership experience within homelessness, housing solutions, rough sleeping or wider housing services.
• A strong track record of leading large, complex teams and delivering service improvement.
• Extensive knowledge of housing and homelessness legislation, policy and best practice.
• Experience of working effectively within complex political and partnership environments.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, including budget responsibility.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.
• The ability to lead organisational change while maintaining service performance and resident focus.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the UK's largest local authorities and make a lasting impact on the lives of Birmingham residents.

In return, we offer:

• The opportunity to shape and influence housing services across a major city.
• A senior leadership role with significant strategic responsibility and visibility.
• The chance to lead transformational programmes that improve outcomes for vulnerable residents.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities where service needs allow.
• Access to generous local government pension and employee benefits.
• A strong commitment to learning, development and career progression.
• The opportunity to work alongside dedicated colleagues who are passionate about delivering excellent public services.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

and Person Specification - JNC202205 Assistant Director of Housing Solutions & Sleepers Service JDPS.pdf