Job Description

Salary

G8: 45,859 per annum full time (pro rata for part time)

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full Time

Region

Oxford

Package

29 days holiday, local government pension scheme, subsidised leisure membership, flex scheme (where appropriate), employer benefits scheme.

Date posted

25/07/2025

Job reference

002693



Housing Services at Oxford City Council is undergoing significant transformation and improvement. Following a significant restructure, we are now looking to recruit two really exciting new roles to enhance and further improve our service delivery to residents. The first role - the Housing Strategy and Performance Lead is a brand-new role that will work closely with the Director, leading all aspects of the housing directorate's strategic work. This role will be supported by an additional role - a Regulatory Compliance Officer which will collaborate with colleagues to ensure our compliance with the SHA and new Standards.



Regulatory Compliance Officer:



This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our new Housing Strategy and Performance Team as a Regulatory Compliance Officer. You will support the development, delivery and implementation of a quality assurance and improvement programme across the Council's Housing Directorate, to ensure that we deliver core function in accordance with regulation and realise our continuous improvement goals.



Your professional accountability is to provide assurance that the council is compliant with all statutory and regulatory housing requirements, developing actions plans and remediations where are deficient, taking enabling and direct actions to ensure that we deliver a high quality, safe, modern and preventative housing service, which has a positive impact on tenants and residents.



With a broad and detailed knowledge of all aspects of local authority housing services, from homelessness and allocations to maintenance and repairs and in particular of the Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 in relation to housing and asset management.



You will be highly organised, and an innovative and intelligence problem solver, conversant with project and programme management skills and an excellent communicator, able to prepare strategies, formal reports for members and presentations for colleagues and residents