Assistant Director, Infrastructure and Structured Real Estate Finance, Portfolio Management

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Assistant Director, Infrastructure and Structured Real Estate Finance, Portfolio Management Closing date :05/06/2023A bit about the role...This is a senior leadership role in an established Portfolio Management function, working directly with the Director of Portfolio Management, the Assistant Director, Development Finance and Heads of teams. The role is a national role, leading our two Infrastructure and Structured Real Estate Finance, Portfolio Management teams, consisting of circa 15 staff in several offices across England. The team manages a contracted loan book of >£2.5bn, originated acrossseveral Funds, including the Home Building Fund - Long Term Fund, the Home Building Fund - Short-Term Fund, the Levelling Up Home Building Fund and the Home Building Fund, Infrastructure Loans, plus others. Working in a team with the Director of Portfolio Management, the Assistant Director Development Finance and Heads, the Assistant Director, Infrastructure and Real Estate Finance will be joining our highly skilled team of property / lending professionals, whomanage the Agency’s Recoverable loan book, dedicated to supporting either the delivery of key infrastructure schemes to unlock sites for housebuilding to commence, or to providing direct development finance for homes for people to live in.Our team of Portfolio Managers manage a portfolio of loans from first draw down through to repayment, liaising and working alongside their Borrowers and key Partners such as Solicitors, Valuers and IMS firms to ensure delivery of homes.The Assistant Director, Infrastructure and Real Estate Finance will support their people through strong leadership, including successfully managing delivery, credit and reputational risk. The role requires a high degree of technical and credit risk skills,working on some of the Agency’s larger and more complex loan commitments. This is a key strategic role within the Investments Directorate. It will lead a team of Portfolio Managers focussed on supporting the delivery of homes. Working alongside other senior stakeholders, it will contribute to our risk governance, reporting & processesand devising strategies at a portfolio level aimed at supporting our Borrowers in a deteriorating market to ensure delivery, whilst maintaining fiscal recovery and protecting the Agency’s reputation.A bit about you…Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.Youll be comfortable leading your team with their role in portfolio managing a portfolio of loans, where our loan structuring includes cashflow lending’. You will be proficient in providing leadership to the Heads and their teams in the identification, mitigation and management of risk within the loan book and in reacting to market headwinds. You will coach your leaders and your team in how they manage their loans and in maintaining a strong relationship with their Borrowers. Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing a team and stakeholders at a senior level, and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impactof what we do as a Portfolio Management team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.As an experienced property & lending professional you’ll understand how to manage leaders and colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.What we offer... We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.Who are we We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues - meaning people are struggling to find homes. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality ofnew homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of publicservice - join us to help make this happen.We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially importantif you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.Homes England are a geographically diverse community.