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Osborne Richardson have an excellent new opportunity with one of our London local authority clients for an Interim Director of Regeneration and Assets. This will initially be a 6 month contract, but there is potential for an extension for 12 months.
Providing strategic leadership, you will have responsibility for the councils real estate assets and the facilities management (FM) function. The restructuring of the directorate will be introducing a corporate landlord function to adopt a more strategic asset management approach in devising its future investment for its real estate. Our client needs the expertise of a seasoned regeneration and development professional, with a strong proven track record of delivery at pace and under set timeframes, including an understanding of real estate assets and FM in a Local Authority setting.
Some of the primary objective for this interim role include, but are not limited to;
• Leading the dedicated regeneration and housing, including real estate and FM teams.
• Bring pace to the mayor’s housing development programme.
• Establish a development programme for currently non funded housing development sites, with budgets established.
• Deliver 5 key mayoral priorities that delivers community facilities and an extra care new build.
To be considered for this role, you must hold a relevant qualification and have recent and extensive experience of Housing and Regeneration in a Public Sector organisation and have worked at a similar level:
You will need to be able to demonstrate the following on your CV:
• Significant leadership experience in complex regeneration and housing developments and brings commercial solutions to development viability and partnership working.
• Experience of leading a corporate non-housing real estate and FM as a corporate service or can demonstrate technical understanding, with strong corporate leadership capability from inception to completion.
• Experience of developing land and property strategies and the execution, including repurposing of land and assets.
• Can demonstrate and evidence strong land and development programme management in highlight and dashboard reporting, to evidence progress and mitigation actions.
• Effective budget and cashflow management.
• Can demonstrate political acumen, with experience of working directly with Leaders, Chairs, Mayors.
• Understanding of regulatory standards and governance and effective controls.
This role is inside IR35 and the rate offered is £896/day Umbrella. Our client offers hybrid working with office presence in the region 2 days per week, with Wednesday being on site.
A JD is available on application.