Trainee Housing Strategy and Development Officer

Persimmon

  • East Midlands
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 20 days ago
Job Title: Trainee Housing Strategy and Development OfficerLocation: Peterborough, PE2Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Trainee Housing Strategy and Development Officer and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.Why Persimmon Homes?At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Trainee Housing Strategy and Development Officer, you’ll benefit from:
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
  • Life Cover & Contributory Pension
  • Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
  • Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?To support the Group Head of Partnership Homes and the Head of Partnership Homes South/North in the delivery of Persimmon Homes Affordable Homes Proposition to the Affordable Home Market. This will include negotiating and securing offers from Registered Providers for the disposal by Persimmon Homes of Affordable Housing as required under s106 Planning Agreements.Alongside the delivery of commercial offers, you will be expected to assist with managing the forward programme of s106 sites to secure forward delivery of Affordable Home sales. Once firm offers have been secured, you will be required to assist with converting the offers into legally binding Development Agreements between Persimmon and the Registered Provider for the delivery of the s106 affordable housing within agreed target exchange timescales.Primary Responsibilities
  • Assist the GHOPH/HOPH North/South to issue RP tenders to meet the requirements of the Operating Companies to specific deadlines.
  • Research relevant Local Authority Affordable Housing Policy, providing concise summaries to determine a suitable affordable housing mix for negotiation with the Local Authority as part of any planning application and layout development.
  • Collate necessary information from various sources within the Operating Companies to enable the HOPH to agree HoT’s and progress contracts to exchange in a timely manner.
  • Regularly engage and build strong relationships with Local Authority Housing Enablers to facilitate negotiation of suitable AH mix and support our Core Values
  • Regularly engage with Registered Providers to drive offers for our S.106 homes and support our Core Values
  • Review and provide comments regarding Affordable Housing on site layouts and S.10 agreements for discussion with regional land and planning teams.
  • Engage and complete an internal training programme delivered by the HOPH
  • Support the Head of Partnership Homes, Group Head of Partnership Homes and Group Director of Partnership Homes in building positive and constructive relationships across the Operating Companies.
  • Travel as required to attend meetings with Operating Companies, RP’s, Local Authorities and any other key Stakeholders.
What experience do I need?
  • Good numeracy skills.
  • Qualification in subject requiring numeracy such as Business, accounting, science, or mathematics.
  • Good negotiation and Influencing skills
  • A self-starter with ability to arrange workload in order to meet deadlines.
  • Good communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Attention to detail. Able to analyse data and documents and produce summaries, options and proposals from the data.
  • Has a driving license and access to a car that can be used for travel as required to undertake the role.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • High levels of integrity and professionalism.

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