Overview
Some things cement to be…like building a great career as part of our Development team.
Building new homes takes months, even years. It takes skilled engineers and craftsmen to turn a muddy field into great new homes that will house people in need for generations to come. But before the first brick is laid, there’s a huge amount of work needed to build the foundations – and we’re not talking about concrete!
Futures Housing Group is one of the leading affordable housing providers across the East Midlands and a strategic partner of Homes England. But too many people across the region still struggle to afford a home so building more is one of our top priorities.
We’re expanding our development team to help us meet demand and we need bright, skilled, experienced and enthusiastic people to get even more projects off the ground. In return you’ll be joining an Investors in People Platinum organisation with a fantastic culture and flexible working across our state-of the art new workplaces around the region, all backed up by great IT systems.
As part of this expansion we’re on the hunt for a Development Lead – New Business, to appraise, negotiate and secure new development opportunities with low or managed risk, on good commercial terms, in line with corporate objectives for growth and investment. Support the Programme Delivery and New Business Teams to deliver high quality housing products across a range of tenures to meet a changing customer demand.
A few key points from our role profile:
- To ascertain site and opportunity suitability. Review and offer upon new business opportunities on Proval that meet internal financial parameters and provide good quality, well designed homes, to meet local need/demand and reflect Futures requirements.
- Manage the approval process with the New Business Manager to obtain approval in a timely manner, in line with policies and procedure requirements for new investment opportunities, property disposals and regeneration initiatives which meet corporate objectives.
- Manage project budgets to deliver value for money in all aspects of development for the organisation including maintaining appropriate systems of financial control and reporting and submit timely claims for funding; Use of SDS Sequel to manage and monitor cashflow and programming.
- Ensure projects remain viable, and deliverable in line with approved programme and milestones.
- Provide a sound knowledge and understanding of pre contract development, demonstrate competence in review of legal issues on schemes and familiarity of Heads of Terms and Contract arrangements/documents to negotiate these meeting Futures requirements with removal or mitigation of risk.
Sounds like me, so what are you offering?
If you’re successful, you’ll be joining a dynamic organisation with an amazing culture. We offer competitive benefits that include mileage, private healthcare options, discount schemes and with a big emphasis on health and well-being. You’ll have great opportunities to grow and develop, personally and professionally, but the greatest reward will be knowing you’re helping people and communities across our region to thrive.
Your weekly hours of work would be 37. You’ll also get 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and concessionary days holiday at Christmas.
We’re proud to be Investor in People Platinum award – the highest of IiP accreditation. The award recognises organisations which are passionate about making sure all employees get the best experience at work.
Please note we may contact candidates or close the vacancy prior to the closing date.
Salary: £49,785
Location: Derby, DE74 2SA
