Community Asset Lead

Sovereign Housing Association Limited; Filton, Bristol, Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 42,000

Job description

Sovereign Network Group (SNG) is a leading Housing Association, committed to providing quality, affordable homes and services within sustainable, successful communities. We're led by our values and driven by a strong sense of social purpose, placing our customers at the heart of everything we do.

We have a fantastic new opportunity to join our Communities Team as a Community Asset Lead on a full time permanent basis.

This role will be based from our Basingstoke office, combining time in the office with working from home. There will be occasional travel across our geography, so you'll need access to transport and be happy to travel.

The starting salary is £36,000 - £42,000 depending on experience.

The Role

The Community Asset Lead will coordinate the identification, development and management of our community assets (community centres) across the SNG geography.

You will build and maintain strong relationships with key partner organisations, embedding SNG's community asset transfer policy and procedure, community foundation strategy and corporate plan.

You'll work closely with our Social Enterprise and Community Investment and Partnership Leads to maximise social investment opportunities to enhance local community development, build capacity within key anchor organisations, and adopt an asset-based community development approach to sustainable delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with SNG's commercial property, asset management, legal and locality teams to enhance the operation and delivery of community assets.
• Undertaking comprehensive asset mapping across the SNG geography to support the effective management of our community resources.
• Facilitate payments to lease/licence holders where appropriate and manage the budget line effectively and appropriately.
• Develop, manage and capacity build community organisations to deliver programmes that support the needs and aspirations of the local community.
• Represent SNG as a thought-leader and ambassador at events, meetings, networks and other promotional and external engagement opportunities.

What We Need From You

You should have previous experience in Asset Management or Housing, managing and developing community assets within the context of community investment.

You'll also have:

• A proven track record of positive stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
• A passion for community-orientated working.
• Experience in asset documentation, leases and due diligence.
• Excellent organisational and IT skills including databases and social media.
• Strong operational management skills.

What You'll Receive From Us

• £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme.
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days).
• Company pension scheme matched up to 12%, life cover at 4x your salary.
• Flexible working - we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible.
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover.

We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.

This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change at SNG. We pride ourselves on having a relaxed, supportive and forward-thinking culture, working collaboratively to achieve success.