Job Description

Programme Officer - Housing Strategy and Commissioning

Sutton

Job Role

Oversee the commissioning of a new affordable housing investment strategy.

Chair performance meetings with the Councils ALMO Sutton Housing Partnership and Encompass, its trading company delivering homelessness to monitor and oversee regulatory, KPI and financial performance ensuring collaborative working across the organisations and continuous improvement.

Contribute to producing the Council's Housing Revenue Account Business Plan and other related strategies and plans.

Reporting and presenting to the Housing, Economy and Business Committee on key business areas within the Housing Directorate including the HRA business plan.

Reviewing the management agreement with Sutton Housing Partnership.

Quality assure and audit the performance data provided by the Council's ALMO, Sutton Housing Partnership (SHP) and Encompass, its trading company delivering homelessness and other statutory housing services.

To respond to Members enquiries, Councillor enquiries, Freedom of Information Enquiries and Subject Access requests and to oversee and ensure the Councils companies Sutton Housing Partnership and Encompass track, respond to and follow up on their enquiries within the prescribed timescales.

To respond to LBS complaints within prescribed timescales. To oversee and monitor compliance with the Ombudsman complaints handling code with SHP, including performance on embedding lessons learned, the annual self assessment submission and effectiveness of complaints handling. To oversee and monitor complaint handling within Encompass, the homelessness division.

Approvals of invoices on Business World and ensuring robust management of financial spend within budget provision. To feed into budget forecasting and demonstrate Value for Money savings and efficiencies.

Coordinate and submit the Council's annual housing statistical returns and other housing related submissions to Government.