Principal Officer - Strategy and Homelessness

These are exciting times to work within Salford City Council's fast paced and varied Housing Strategy Team. The team is responsible for the production of, and monitoring and reporting on the delivery of our housing and homelessness related strategies and policies - including data collection and analysis. In addition, the team are responsible for driving and delivering a number of key actions within our strategy action plans and a key area of responsibility for this Principal Officer post currently is the delivery of awareness raising training to wider front line services on a range of homelessness, housing and domestic abuse issues to promote our prevention approach - with prevention, early identification and engagement seen as a key priority for the Council.

We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our team, who can demonstrate their ability to use their initiative to drive a partnership approach to achieving local outcomes. You will have excellent written and verbal skills and be able to plan and manage competing pieces of work. A knowledge and understanding of housing and homelessness issues is required - including proven experience of analysing, understanding and applying homelessness law.

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