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Head of Equity and Partnerships, Investment

Employer
Homes England
Location
Bristol, Coventry, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe
Salary
£60,696 - £71,406
Closing date
6 Jun 2023

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Sector
Land, Property, Construction, Proptech
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Flexible
Specialism
Finance and Investment, Infrastructure
Level
Head of
Business Type
Public Sector

Job Details

Positioning

This is an exciting time to join Homes England, the government’s housing delivery Agency. We have the resources, influence, and diverse expertise to drive positive market change through our significant investment activity. The government has put housing at the heart of its agenda and the Agency is at the forefront of that commitment with a mission to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need to improve affordability. Homes England will make this sustainable by creating a more resilient and diverse housing market, with a focus on quality.

To help achieve this aim, government has committed over £20 billion of capital to be invested and managed through Homes England. This includes direct lending, equity investment, guarantees, land assembly and the biggest affordable home building programme in a generation.  The Agency is increasingly exploring unprecedented initiatives to open the market and regenerate places. 

The role of the Product, Equity and Partnerships team is to attract new and additional capital and partners to the housing sector and create platforms that are a conduit for capital to deliver high quality homes in well-designed places.  This team has the appetite, aspiration and resources to shape the future of housing investment and is at the forefront of the Agency’s work exploring how we can work with partners to do this and drive  real social purpose. 

We do this by making selective equity investments into housing led delivery platforms including joint ventures, third party investment funds and partnerships.  These partnerships leverage wider investment, resources and skills to achieve outcomes that are a significant multiple of the Agency’s participation. 

 

A bit about the role...

This Head of position is part of the senior team in Product Equity and Partnerships working with the Assistant Directors Fay Mitchelson and Jennifer Murray.  The holder will contribute to setting and evolving the Agency’s strategy for equity and partnership transactions.  They will lead on the development and management of the team’s transaction pipeline, taking new investment proposals through our stakeholder approval process, undertaking due diligence, negotiating and contracting on new equity investments (into funds or SPVs with our partners sharing in appropriate risks and rewards of activity).

 

A bit about you…

You will be an experienced finance or real estate professional with the ambition to work creatively to improve the affordability and accessibility of housing of all tenures across England.   

You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do.  You will be able to demonstrate that you understand how to manage colleagues and demonstrate you can work with others in a collaborative and inclusive way. You will enjoy working in an innovative and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

Comfortable undertaking financial analysis, you’ll also be confident reviewing legal documents and proposals, negotiating terms, identifying key issues and presenting arguments in a clear and reasoned manner.  You’ll show an enquiring mind and a willingness to think laterally and constructively challenge colleagues and partners.  

You will have a degree level qualification and or equivalent relevant accreditation / experience such as a professional qualification in surveying, accountancy, law or similar.  

Your career to date will demonstrate an understanding of some or all of: 

Real estate development and investment. 

Financing and delivery of large scale residential and regeneration projects.

The institutional investment landscape.

Government housing policy and the housing market. 

Investment structures and financing tools utilised within the capital raising spectrum.

Good corporate governance, risk identification, mitigation and management. 

 

What we offer... 

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer 33 days annual leave and are totally committed to flexible working. Our career average pension scheme comes with a generous employer contribution, and we’ll pay for your membership of a relevant professional body.  Our colleagues also have access to exclusive discounts and offers with leading high street names. 

If you do ever need extra help we have an employee assistance programme and financial well-being support.  Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

 

Who are we? 

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues  meaning people are struggling to find homes. 

We 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. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.

Homes England is a geographically diverse community. We are hybrid working spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities. 

Company

Homes England is the new national housing agency, recently launched to play a major role in fixing the housing market and enabling delivery of homes that our country needs.

Homes England brings together land, money, expertise, and planning & compulsory purchase powers, with a clear remit to facilitate delivery of sufficient new homes, where they are most needed, to deliver a sustained improvement in affordability.  We work locally in individual communities to help meet local priorities.

We invest mostly in building new homes, but also in creating employment floor space and other community facilities, in cities, towns and villages across the country. The homes we fund include affordable homes for rent and sale, and homes for rent or sale at market prices. Our investment helps build around half of all new homes built in England each year. It also helps increase local growth by creating jobs and supporting businesses.

We own public land, which we sell to house builders and others. This is one of the ways in which we overcome barriers to development and help increase the speed with which house builders can build new homes.

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.

Homes England was launched by the Secretary of State on 11 January 2018. Homes England is the trading name of Homes and Communities Agency. To find out more about what we do please visit: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-England.

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0191 497 7668
Location
St Georges House
Kingsway
Team Valley
Gateshead
Tyne & Wear
NE11 0NA
United Kingdom

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