Assistant Director

Are you an experienced housing leader with a passion for preventing homelessness, improving housing outcomes and supporting some of the city's most vulnerable residents? Birmingham City Council is seeking an exceptional Assistant Director to lead our Housing Solutions & Rough Sleeping Services. This is a high-profile leadership role with responsibility for shaping and delivering services that prevent homelessness, provide effective housing solutions and drive forward the city's response to rough sleeping. You'll lead large, complex services through a period of transformation, ensuring statutory responsibilities are delivered effectively while driving innovation, partnership working and continuous improvement across the housing system. About the Role As Assistant Director, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across housing solutions, homelessness prevention and rough sleeping services, ensuring services are resident-focused, outcome-driven and aligned to the Council's wider housing ambitions. You will:

• Lead the development and delivery of homelessness prevention, housing solutions and rough sleeping strategies.
• Drive service improvement, transformation and innovation to improve outcomes for residents.
• Build strong partnerships with health, social care, voluntary sector and housing providers.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory homelessness and housing duties.
• Lead large multidisciplinary teams, fostering a high-performance and customer-focused culture.
• Manage significant budgets, resources and commissioned services to achieve value for money.
• Provide strategic advice and support to senior leaders, elected members and key stakeholders.
  
  We are looking for a senior housing professional who can demonstrate:
• Significant leadership experience within homelessness, housing solutions, rough sleeping or wider housing services.
• A strong track record of leading large, complex teams and delivering service improvement.
• Extensive knowledge of housing and homelessness legislation, policy and best practice.
• Experience of working effectively within complex political and partnership environments.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, including budget responsibility.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.
• The ability to lead organisational change while maintaining service performance and resident focus.
  
  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.

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the UK's largest local authorities and make a lasting impact on the lives of Birmingham residents. In return, we offer:
• The opportunity to shape and influence housing services across a major city.
• A senior leadership role with significant strategic responsibility and visibility.
• The chance to lead transformational programmes that improve outcomes for vulnerable residents.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities where service needs allow.
• Access to generous local government pension and employee benefits.
• A strong commitment to learning, development and career progression.
• The opportunity to work alongside dedicated colleagues who are passionate about delivering excellent public services.
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., 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.