Director of Loans Origination, Investment

Job Description

Who we areWe are the Governments national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, both in areas where there are the most serious affordability issuesmeaning people are struggling to find homesand where housingcan make a meaningful contribution to levelling up the country.We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Governments ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our investment funds, land assets and market influence and knowledge to increasethe pace, scale, and quality of new homes, accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Over the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes since our inception in 2018. To deliveragainst these aims we are building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.PositioningThis is an exciting time to join Homes England, the governments housing delivery Agency. We have the resources, influence, and diverse expertise to drive positive market change through our significant investment activity. The government has put housingat the heart of its agenda and the Agency is at the forefront of that commitment with a mission to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need to improve affordability. Homes England will make this sustainable by creatinga more resilient and diverse housing market, with a focus on quality.To help achieve this aim, government has committed over £20 billion of capital invested and managed through Homes England. This includes direct lending, equity investment, guarantees, land assembly and the biggest affordable home building programme in ageneration alongside unprecedented initiatives to open the market and regenerate places. The Agency is undergoing meaningful change to position itself to meet the challenge and deliver on behalf of government and the role of the Director, Origination is atthe forefront to lead and deliver this ambition.The roleThis is a unique opportunity to lead strategic delivery for an ambitious government agency currently reporting into the Chief Investment Officer (we are currently considering our structure best serves the agencys evolving objectives). As a member of theAgencys Senior Leadership Team, you will contribute, shape, participate and engage in the successful delivery of the Homes England strategic direction, and the investment policies and business plan for the Agency.Through effective leadership of a highly capable team, you will be directly responsible for delivering the agencys debt ambitions, deployed out of the flagship £2bn Levelling Up Home Building Fund which is tasked to deliver up to 42,000 new homes and unlocka further 9,300 homes, accelerating housing delivery, whilst supporting diversification, innovation, and capacity in the market.Supporting the Governments housing agenda, as the Director, Loan Origination you will be responsible for leading our established teams to develop, originate and deliver a portfolio of loan products to help strategic place makers and low to medium volumehousebuilders face into the challenges of evolving lender appetite for the sector. Acting either directly or indirectly through our lender alliances, we seek to bridge gaps through our funding interventions and increase the supply of liquidity to the marketby sharing risk exposure and facilitate lending that would otherwise not happen, supporting the delivery of much needed additional homes by new entrants as well as established developers and growing SMEs.Our strategy seeks to support a more resilient and productive supply chain through finance for new entrants and digitally enabled manufacture (modern methods of construction) and providing funding to unlock and accelerate strategic delivery of new homesand places through longer term infrastructure finance.But this is not just about money, we want to sponsor real change in the ability of our customers to grow and realise their ambitions. We want to support the development of new entrants, SMEs, and established businesses alike to make the most of their capitaland encourage diversity and resilience in the residential development sector.A critical part of this role is ensuring national investment and housebuilding targets are achieved through Homes Englands lending activity, delivering to business plan budgets and within the required timescales.Building and maintaining strategic and effective relationships with trade organisations (Homebuilders Federation and Federation of Master Builders amongst others), senior officials in DLUHC and HM Treasury, and the wider Development sector is a crucial elementof the role. Understanding the dynamics of the marketplace, and where there is failure in the provision of support to the sector by market players informs the strategic direction of the agency, including the targeting of our funds through new products andsub-sectors.The individualWe are looking for a Director, Loan Origination to lead a team of c50 committed lending professionals, bringing relevant experience and knowledge of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. You will have a proven ability to motivate and lead teamsin a real estate investment and lending environment, delivering effective support for both SMEs and institutional borrowers alike.Your demonstrable leadership ability and strategic business planning skills will be essential to your success in this role. You will have an established network in the sector and be effective engaging with market makers and managing relationships at a seniorlevel in the sector. You will need to be proficient in building trust and effective relationships with stakeholders across the agency and Government.You will have a strong record of delivering results and business plans, within an agreed risk framework and meeting expectations of senior stakeholders, whilst working on strategic and complex project delivery by the public and/or private sector will alsobe important.Experience of managing and delivering organisational change in a complex and challenging environment and leading professional multi-disciplined teams. You will be comfortable proactively identifying strategic opportunities for collaboration, engagement,resourcing and providing funding needs.What we offer <