Strategic Lead - Housing

The postholder will support the Head of Housing And Communities in the effective management, development and strategic direction of services provided by the Housing, Housing Asset and Welfare Rights Services, ensuring the delivery of a cost efficient, financially viable and high quality service that contributes to the Council's key objectives specifically in relation to the Community Plan, Shared Commitments, Single Outcome Agreement and Best Value., We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely "Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment". With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

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This post is classed as a politically restricted post under the provisions of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended).

This is a permanent full-time post. The admin base for this post is Holmquarry House, Kilmarnock.

Normal Office hours are Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm & Friday 9am - 4pm

Annual Salary is £75,785 to £82,828.

The workstyle for this post is Flexible' - 50% -79% of your time in an office location/ multiple work locations. You will work at your administrative base or another agreed office location between 2.5 to 4 days per week and only occasionally from home. It is the expectation that all office-based employees (with the exception of those working in schools) will work to the higher end of their allocated workstyle in terms of time spent in the office or at other work locations