Head of Development Delivery

Head of Development Delivery
£87,000 including car allowance
Bedford, Hybrid
Permanent, Full Time

As our Head of Development Delivery, you will play a pivotal leadership role in transforming development ambitions into reality. Leading a talented team of development professionals, you'll oversee a diverse portfolio of affordable housing schemes, ensuring new homes are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards of quality.

If you're passionate about creating places where people can thrive, enjoy leading high-performing teams, and have the expertise to navigate complex development programmes, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and develop the Development Delivery and Aftercare teams, fostering a high-performing and customer-focused culture.
• Oversee the successful delivery of affordable housing developments, ensuring schemes are delivered safely, on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with Homes England, local authorities, contractors, consultants and other key partners.
• Provide strategic oversight of programme performance, risk management and governance across the development portfolio.
• Lead contract management and ensure delivery partners achieve strong performance, compliance and value for money.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to monitor budgets, forecasts and development performance.
• Ensure compliance with CDM regulations, health and safety requirements and Homes England funding obligations.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring customer feedback, complaints and lessons learned are used as opportunities to improve services, enhance the quality of our homes and deliver better outcomes for customers.

What We're Looking For

• Experience delivering affordable housing developments within a Housing Association, Registered Provider or similar affordable housing environment.
• Experience leading, managing or mentoring project teams and development professionals.
• Strong understanding of the development process, from construction through to completion and handover.
• Experience using financial appraisal software such as SDS ProVal.
• Experience managing relationships with contractors, consultants and external stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness, with experience of managing budgets, programme performance and project risk.
• Knowledge of Homes England funding requirements and compliance obligations.
• Understanding of CDM Regulations and construction health and safety requirements.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience overseeing multiple development projects or programmes.
• Experience presenting reports and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Professional qualification or membership of RICS, CIOB, RTPI, RIBA or a related professional body.
• Experience delivering mixed-tenure development programmes.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

About bpha

bpha is a leading Housing Association in the Oxford to Cambridge arc, providing high-quality, affordable homes and services. We own or manage over 19,500 properties and reinvest all income into improving homes, building new ones, and supporting communities. Our vision is to build places where people can live happily in homes they can afford, guided by value that shape everything we do.

Benefits

We believe that benefits should be more than just perks. For us, they aren't simply little extras added on at the end, they're fundamental parts of what we stand for, from the very beginning. As standard.

That's why at bpha, we reward our employees by making sure we give them a supportive and caring environment, that empowers them to be happy, healthy and inspired, every day.

Our full benefits offering can be found here: https://www.bpha.org.uk/about-us/bpha-colleague-benefits/139/