Housing Development Manager (Small Sites Aggregator)

Full Time, Fixed Term for up to 18 months.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Housing Development Manager to join the team on a fixed-term basis of up to 18 months, to work on a national government-led programme to accelerate housing delivery.

You will be working on the Small Sites Aggregator, an exciting new programme that aims to build homes for social rent on local authority-owned land using innovative construction techniques and SME developers. This role expands a traditional Housing Development role into working to support a national development programme, with enabling and partnership working at its core.

You will lead on the housing delivery aspects of the programme for Bristol. This will involve directly working to identify and de-risk sites and supporting the planning applications, detailed design, procurement, legals, and construction stages of the programme. You will work closely with national government, the West of England Combined Authority, and other partners, helping to ensure the programme is a success.

You will be responsible for leading on site specific comms including in-person stakeholder collaboration and engagement, funding and project reporting to senior leadership, funders, and political leads.

What do I need to have?

Ideally, you’ll have a relevant professional qualification along with the demonstrable housing development, construction, acquisition and project management experience required to successfully enable a multi-million-pound Housing Delivery programme.

You will be experienced in commissioning and managing consultancy services around development; preparing and maintaining project documentation such as business cases, development appraisals, cost benefit plans, risk logs and monitoring reports; and effectively managing capital budgets, to support the successful delivery of the Small Sites Aggregator programme.

You will also have experience of managing a small team of technical and non-technical officers and working with external development specialists.

If you have a passion for housing development and construction, experience of working in a project delivery environment and leading a development team, we would welcome an application from you.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our 

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

Interviews will be held on select dates between 18 February and 03 March.

For further information please e-mail Niall Lees (

Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

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Full Time, Fixed Term for up to 18 months.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Housing Development Manager to join the team on a fixed-term basis of up to 18 months, to work on a national government-led programme to accelerate housing delivery.

You will be working on the Small Sites Aggregator, an exciting new programme that aims to build homes for social rent on local authority-owned land using innovative construction techniques and SME developers. This role expands a traditional Housing Development role into working to support a national development programme, with enabling and partnership working at its core.

You will lead on the housing delivery aspects of the programme for Bristol. This will involve directly working to identify and de-risk sites and supporting the planning applications, detailed design, procurement, legals, and construction stages of the programme. You will work closely with national government, the West of England Combined Authority, and other partners, helping to ensure the programme is a success.

You will be responsible for leading on site specific comms including in-person stakeholder collaboration and engagement, funding and project reporting to senior leadership, funders, and political leads.

What do I need to have?

Ideally, you’ll have a relevant professional qualification along with the demonstrable housing development, construction, acquisition and project management experience required to successfully enable a multi-million-pound Housing Delivery programme.

You will be experienced in commissioning and managing consultancy services around development; preparing and maintaining project documentation such as business cases, development appraisals, cost benefit plans, risk logs and monitoring reports; and effectively managing capital budgets, to support the successful delivery of the Small Sites Aggregator programme.

You will also have experience of managing a small team of technical and non-technical officers and working with external development specialists.

If you have a passion for housing development and construction, experience of working in a project delivery environment and leading a development team, we would welcome an application from you.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our 

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.