Housing and Homelessness Commissioning and Contracts Manager

Job Description

Place – Housing and Homelessness

Housing and Homelessness Commissioning and Contracts Manager
Waverley Court

Salary: £62,685 - £74,858
Hours: 36 per week

Do you know that over 5,000 households are in temporary accommodation every night in our city? Do you know that there are on average 200 people bidding for every secure home we advertise?

The City of Edinburgh Council has declared a Housing Emergency and wants to ensure everyone has a secure, safe, warm place to call home, with access to services and a culture that supports individuals and communities to thrive.

Following a review of our delivery structure we are looking for an exceptional individual to develop a consolidated commissioning and procurement approach for the Housing and Homelessness service, ensuring Best Value across all aspects of the Council’s landlord function. This includes the commissioning of all internal and external services focussing on homelessness prevention, capital investment and estate regeneration.

You will have experience of planning and managing large complex, high value contracts, programme and project management, and market shaping. Your ability to communicate the vision and direction of the service will be critical, with a sound understanding of data development, analysis and governance and how this supports key strategic and operational decisions.

You'll be innovative, outcome-focused with strong leadership skills that demonstrate our organisational behaviours – respect, integrity and flexibility - as well as extensive experience of creating a high performing prevention-based culture, driving change and service delivery.

You'll be joining the highest profile social landlord in Scotland, with annual expenditure portfolio of £250m each year, and work closely with both our Strategy Manager and Service Improvement Manager, and with strategic partners such as Health and Social Care, NHS Lothian, and the third sector to influence marketplace development and achieve the best outcome for our current and prospective tenants.

If you recognise yourself in this description, we would love to hear from you or if you want to know about the role contact lisa.mallon@edinburgh.gov.uk.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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