Applications and Allocations Team Leader

Birmingham City Council is transforming how we deliver affordable homes at scale, and we are looking for an experienced and motivated Applications and Allocations Team Leader to help drive this forward. You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of large-scale acquisitions and regeneration schemes that are redefining housing provision across the city. You will be working across innovative acquisition programmes and complex regeneration schemes, where traditional approaches don't always apply. From targeted lettings to flexible allocation models and a blend of Temporary Accommodation and General Needs housing, you'll be part of a service that is adapting to meet growing demand in new and creative ways. What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the planning and delivery of allocations across major acquisitions and regeneration schemes
• Helping ensure homes are allocated fairly, efficiently and in line with the Council's priorities
• Coordinating Local Letting Plans and targeted allocation approaches
• Managing shortlisting and allocation processes to ensure accuracy, transparency and timeliness
• Working closely with Managers, Voids and Lettings teams, Temporary Accommodation services and Regeneration colleagues
• Supporting high-profile, time-critical programmes involving multiple stakeholders
• Using performance data and feedback to support continuous improvement and smarter ways of working
• Helping to build capacity within the service while protecting day-to-day delivery
  
  Experience in housing allocations, lettings or a similar customer-focused service
• A strong understanding of allocation processes and the challenges within social housing
• Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Confident working collaboratively with a range of teams and stakeholders
• Analytical and detail-focused, with the ability to work with performance data
• A proactive approach, with the flexibility to adapt to changing demands
• A team leader mindset, with the ability to support, guide and motivate others
  
  This is your chance to be part of a high-impact, evolving programme that is delivering real change across Birmingham. You'll gain exposure to complex, large-scale housing schemes while helping to shape how allocations are delivered in the future.
If you're driven by challenge, innovation and the opportunity to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you. Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application. For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken. Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed., Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city., The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
• A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
• An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
• A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
• A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
• A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council's role as providing strategic leadership - that's being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making. We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.