Grade: PO​/Closing Date: Directorate: Place​/Housing

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** Housing Partnerships Manager

Walthamstow, Greater London, United Kingdom

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London Borough of Waltham Forest

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

Working hours per week:36

Final date to receive applications: 13/07/2026

Proposed Interview Date(s): WC 17/07/2026

Reference:2179

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recr so we can arrange an alternative application method.

About the role:

To strategically manage, develop, organise, and control the councils Tenant Management
Organisations (TMO’s) Management Agreements; and the Housing Compact partnership arrangements with registered providers (RPs) and housing associations (HAs). Ensure the delivery of the service meets all Council, professional and legislative requirements.

• Strategic lead for contract and relationship management of the borough’s TMO’s – budget circa
  £1.5m
• To develop and lead the ongoing development and delivery of the Housing Compact with
  Registered Providers (RP’s).
• Organisation of Compact Leadership Board Meetings and other Compact Partner Events.
• Line management responsibility for TMO Liaison Officer and Housing Partnerships Officer

Qualifications and Requirements:

• To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:
• Excellent partnership working skills and the ability to develop and manage diverse
  partnerships.
• Experience of programme and project planning and management skills of large and complex
  programmes with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to write and present high level briefings.
• Authority and credibility to build relationships influence and engage successfully with
  colleagues, partners and clients at all levels in complex or politically sensitive situations.
• Excellent research, analysis, interpretation and evaluation skills, demonstrating the ability to
  identify and diagnose complex problems/issues / requirements and develop innovative
  strategic solutions.
• Initiative, strategic and political awareness demonstrated in problem solving and decision
  making.
• Excellent time management skills to manage a complex workload prioritise and set deadlines
  and cope with conflicting and changing demands.
• Good ICT skills - both standard Microsoft applications and specialist systems.

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications,…