Career opportunities Housing Delivery Manager (Decent Homes)

Team: Housing Property Planned Works

Job Family: Enabling M – CBG13
Salary: £52,413 - £56,675 per annum pro rata + Market Rate Supplement £5,500 per annum pro rata 

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month

Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 10th July 2026

Interview Date: W/C 3rd August 2026

About the role:

It’s an exciting time at Central Bedfordshire’s Housing Service.

The Housing Delivery Manager (Decent Homes) role is opportunity within the Housing Directorate to deliver the improvement programme across our housing stock of some 5,600+ homes within Central Bedfordshire, ensuring our homes are safe, and homes meet our statutory obligations to achieve and maintain the Decent Homes Standard.

Working within the Housing Planned Works Team, the position will report to the Housing Planned Works Manager, overseeing the management of a surveying team, contractors and specialist consultants, ensuring effective planning, preparation, and supporting the procurement of resources to deliver capital investment across our housing stock.

The successful postholder will manage the effective delivery of improvements across our homes, collaboratively working with Housing colleagues to maintain safe homes, meeting the Decent homes Standard, to ensure all our homes are in a reasonable state of repair, to support and deliver our legislative and Housing Regulatory obligations.

You will be someone who puts the customer at the heart of everything they do & embeds equality and diversity in all aspects of the Housing Services delivery.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree or HND in Building Surveying or Construction Management, or related discipline/ or qualified by extensive relevant experience in Housing / Property and planned works contract delivery. 


• Knowledge of the Decent Homes Standard, HHRSR and Landlord responsibilities. 


• Have up-to-date knowledge of planning and building regulation principles and CDM requirements


• A sound understanding of construction contract administration - Ensuring corrective action is taken if a contractor’s performance is lacking or if there are risks and issues relating to project delivery.


• An understanding of stakeholder management along with strong communication skills


• Knowledge in investment, repairs, maintenance, quality and performance standards

Our Offer

We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Michael Killeen at [email protected]

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Safeguarding (For DBS posts only):

Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.  

To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.

Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours.  Please book your place here.

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