Commissioner and Ending Rough Sleeping Team Manager

Town Hall
160 Whitechapel Road
LONDON
E1 1BJ

Commissioner and Ending Rough Sleeping Team Manager

About us

Tower Hamlets is one of London’s most diverse, vibrant boroughs. It’s a melting pot of creativity, enterprise and cultural life that brings the best of London together in just eight square miles. It’s also a borough of contrasts, and as a Council, we know that Tower Hamlets is on a vital journey of improvement. There are tough challenges we need to tackle, but with that comes a unique opportunity to make a real impact. We’re changing – rapidly. This is a place where people make things happen. Where everyone works together with zeal, passion and pride. As an employer, we can offer a generous annual leave package, competitive pension and flexible working.

About the role

This is an exciting role to lead on the borough’s commitment to prevent and end street homelessness in Tower Hamlets. You will play a strategic role in coordinating a local partnership response, through commissioning and strategic oversight of rough sleeping support services. These will include being the lead responsible for the delivery of the borough’s broad and wide-ranging Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) 2022-2025, funded by central government, including holding and managing a significant budget. You will be an experienced commissioner of complex services, skilled in successful bid writing, and confident in developing and implementing strategies. You will lead on rough sleeping at a borough level, initiating delivery across various departments and sectors, working with providers and senior stakeholders, including government advisers, local councillors, and pan-London bodies. As a confident, experienced and adaptable self-starter, able to work proactively and on your own initiative, you are committed as much to rough sleeping prevention as intervention and would relish the opportunity to work in a large inner London borough to combat rough sleeping.

This is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

For a confidential discussion please contact Leighton Davies, Head of Homelessness – Leighton.davies@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.