Director of Housing Assets

Job Description

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: CD2 £124,475.65 - £134,194.60

Contract Type: Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 12/12/2025

Proposed Interview Date: 19/12/2025

Reference: 1958

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

About the role:

We are seeking a forward thinking Director of Housing Assets to provide strategic leadership within the Council’s Housing Service. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the long-term sustainability, safety, and quality of council homes across Waltham Forest. This role will be central to delivering innovative solutions to the evolving challenges of asset management, compliance, climate resilience, and estate regeneration.

Following our recent housing inspection, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) awarded the Council a C2 grading. We are proud of the progress made since the launch of our Housing Transformation Programme, and the C2 grading demonstrates our positive trajectory. Our comprehensive improvement plan is already driving change, and this role will be pivotal in further strengthening standards and achieving excellence across all housing asset functions.

The successful candidate will ensure the effective management of our housing stock, enabling the Council to build thriving, sustainable communities that improve life outcomes for residents. Working closely with Members and senior officers across the Council, you will shape and deliver the Council’s Housing Asset Strategy, ensuring our homes are safe, compliant, well-maintained, and ready for the future.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership for all Housing Assets functions, ensuring robust asset management, capital investment, and long-term financial planning.
• Lead the development and delivery of the Council’s Housing Asset Strategy, ensuring alignment with borough priorities, statutory requirements, and Waltham Forest’s Climate Action Plan.
• Oversee all aspects of safety, compliance, stock condition, and capital delivery, ensuring our housing assets meet high standards and support positive outcomes for residents.
• Hold strategic oversight of estate regeneration and new development on council housing land, ensuring projects are aligned with asset needs and resident priorities.
• Drive service transformation and continuous improvement, embedding modern, sustainable, and customer-focused approaches across asset management.
• Champion collaborative leadership, ensuring joined-up working across Housing, Climate, Regeneration, Finance, and other council services.
• Ensure strong governance, financial control, and value for money across all programmes and investment activity.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Educated to degree level or equivalent standard.

Relevant postgraduate / professional qualification

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;

Satisfactory declaration of interest;

This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Jane Martin, Corporate Director of Housing, jane.martin@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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