WMUCH Job Advert

West Midlands Urban Community Homes Job Vacancy

WMUCH Job Advert

Job title: Development Manager

Looking for a new challenge in an exciting role that will contribute to new housing solutions for the West Midlands? Join us as lead officer for our not-for-profit organisation set up to inspire and support the development of community led housing in the West Midlands. You’ll lead a small organisation and influence change across the region that helps communities to create the homes they want and need.

About our organisation: West Midlands Urban Community Homes (wMUCH) is a hub for knowledge and expertise that exists to inspire and support a new wave of community led housing the West Midlands. We do this by providing advice and support to community groups, established community organisations, housing associations, developers and local authorities who want to create community led homes. We also work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to help unlock the land, finance and people needed to enable community led housing.

About the role:

We are looking for a Development Manager to lead our organisation and help us to deliver on our ambitious objectives over the next couple of years. This person will be our Lead Officer, part of a two person staff team and overseeing a pool of associate Community Led Housing Advisers. They will play a vital role in continuing to establish our advice service and wMUCH as the go-to hub for community led housing support, nurturing and building our network and securing a sustainable future for the organisation.

This is a diverse role, leading a small, young and ambitious organisation. This work would suit an enterprising, adaptable and resilient candidate with a proactive and can-do approach to their work.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Service delivery and development - support our Service Manager, who manages our advice services day-to-day, to ensure that they are meeting the needs of our clients and that our advisers have the tools and resources they need to deliver a quality service.
  • Policy development – influence policy makers to better enable community led housing by improving access to the key ingredients needed to make it happen: people, land and finance
  • Engagement and advocacy – build awareness of community led housing, demonstrate the art of the possible, inspiring and influencing others to get involved in or enable community led housing
  • Diversity, equality and inclusion - ensure that we are ambitious and proactive in supporting DEI in the community led housing movement, through implementation of our DEI strategy and action plan
  • People - line manage our part time Service Manager and oversee our pool of associate advisers who are contractors of wMUCH and deliver much of our advice service to community groups and organisations
  • Governance and financial management - liaise with our Board of Directors and Members and ensure effective governance of our organisation
  • Business plan implementation and development - testing the assumptions in our business plan and winning new business, as a new social business looking to generate trading income
  • Income generation – working with our Service Manager to secure paid contracts with clients to deliver our advice and consultancy services.
  • Grant management – managing grant spend, ensuring progress against deliverables and reporting to our grant funders

Salary: £40,600

Contract: This is a full time role, but we are keen to consider a range of options that might work for great candidates, which could include part time, job share and secondment opportunities. The role will be on a fixed term basis to December 2022 initially, with a possibility of extension.

Location: wMUCH works on a home working/ agile working basis. There may be opportunities to spend some time working at office locations of our founding members in Birmingham. We work primarily across Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton and can also work in the surrounding areas. Staff should be flexible to travel to different locations across our areas of operation and the ideal candidate will have knowledge these areas.

Apply: Application is by cover letter and CV. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, ages and identities. Full details of the role and the application process can be found here on our website.

Closing Date: 12 noon Monday 5th July