Home Based, covering the South (Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire & BCP unitary authority area of Dorset) or Central region (Berkshire, Swindon, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & West Northamptonshire), depending upon location

Stonewater are now looking for a Senior Development Manager to deliver new business in the South/ Central region as well as the overall on-site delivery of a programme of development schemes, ensuring a smooth and effective handover into management.

You’ll lead on and serve as the primary point of contact to deliver Stonewater’s growth ambitions in the South/Central regions. You’ll also work on complex, larger developments, managing such projects at design, tender and/or construction phases, and identify, appraising, securing, and developing new projects.

Providing support to the Head of Development, you will encourage a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, customer focused service, and ability to deliver the results in a changing environment. You’ll provide continuity of leadership to the team of Development Managers and Project Officers in the absence of the Head of Development or during time of high workload pressure, and act as a role model, ensuring an agile and commercial approach is taken to the delivery of new homes.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a natural leader who has a confident, independent, and pro-active approach.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the Housing sector either through educational qualifications or through experience.
• Have a working knowledge of affordable housing including the planning process, Homes England practices and housing policies, as well as basic construction knowledge.
• Have excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation skills and experience in establishing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.
• Have good problem-solving skills, able to identify weaknesses within systems and procedures.
• Have experience in securing and delivering new development opportunities.
• Have good business management skills and an understanding of delivering excellent customer service in a social and commercial setting.
• Have well established partnerships and contacts within the South/Central region.

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 39,000 homes, serving 82,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 800 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.