Job Title: Senior Development Officer (Sales)
Location: Leeds
Salary: £40,491.80 plus Essential Car User Allowance based on the emissions of your vehicle
Job Type: Permanent, Full time
The closing date for this role is: noon on 8th May 2023
Interviews will take place on: 17th May 2023
Leeds Federated is a housing association with around 4,300 properties across Leeds, Wakefield and North Yorkshire. Our mission is to enable the maximum number of people to access and live sustainably in good value, affordable housing.
About the role:
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Development Officer (Sales) to join our Development Team. The main purpose of this role is to manage and deliver the Association’s housing for sale programmes, ensuring all sales activity and shared ownership leasehold management services/activities are delivered in line with approved plans. Leeds Fed is a housing association with over 4000 properties across West and North Yorkshire consisting of general needs housing, and a significant and growing number of shared ownership properties both in block of flats and individual properties.
You will manage a small sales team and be responsible for the delivery of a quality housing for sale service, including regularly reporting on progress and performance.
You will have experience in a customer facing service role and experience of low cost home ownership initiatives. You will also have an understanding of the housing development process and experience of working and liaising with prospective/current customers of new homes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing and delivering the full range of home ownership initiatives offered by the Association, including shared ownership (first tranche sales, staircasing, resales), fixed equity sales, Rent to Buy, Right to Acquire and other sales initiatives that may be developed to meet new and emerging markets
- Understanding the implications of the government’s new model shared ownership lease including the new Right to Repair and 1% staircasing and help the Association to establish policies internally to support that function/obligation
- Managing and delivering shared ownership leasehold management related services as required
- Preparing and presenting regular reports supporting sales related activity
- Assisting in the identification of new development opportunities, sites and buildings with a particular emphasis on property sales and saleability
- Researching, investigating and visiting other development opportunities to gather competitor and market information to help inform decision making for both existing and new sales opportunities
- Assisting with carrying out feasibility assessments and helping New Business make bids for new schemes and/or funding
- Coordinating work within the sales team and providing support on projects as required
- Appointing and managing consultants (solicitors, valuers, estate agents, and the like) in accordance with the Association’s standing orders
- Liaising and communicating with internal and external customers as required to ensure sales delivery and targets are met
About you:
Our ideal candidate will:
- Have experience of a customer facing service role, preferably within a Housing Association, Local Authority, Housebuilder and/or Estate Agent professions or similar
- Have experience of low-cost home ownership initiatives
- Be a strong communicator who is able to liaise effectively at all levels, both written and verbal
- Have an interest or passion for the built environment and/or the value of new affordable homes
- Have an understanding of the housing development process / planning / legal requirements of the development and/or acquisition / legal conveyance process of property
- Have proven experience of managing, leading and motivating a team and experience of working cross departmentally with teams such as Finance, Repairs and Housing Management in order to deliver the best customer experience
Benefits:
As well as a competitive salary we can offer you:
- Agile working environment
- 30 days annual leave
- DC pension schemes
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Health cash plan
Additional Information:
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted regarding an interview.
We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.
Leeds Fed is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in everything we do, and therefore welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Please click on the APPLY button to be redirected to the company’s careers page to apply for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Sales Development Officer, Technical Officer, Planning Officer, Housing Development Officer, Sales Manager, Sales Associate, Sales Assistant, Housing Sales, Housing Planner, Development Planning Coordinator, Property & Housing Development, Development Control Planner, Town and Country Planning, Town and Country Planner may also be considered for this role.
