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About the Role

This role offers a chance to play a central part in unblocking stalled housing sites and accelerating housebuilding in London. You will support the Senior Manager and collaborate with GLA teams, Homes England, Government, and other partners to unlock these sites and expedite home construction.

Responsibilities

• Take a London-led approach to data collection and analysis to identify genuinely stalled sites in London.
• Work with existing networks, teams, and site lists to prioritize sites for NHA support.
• Identify methods to unblock and accelerate sites, focusing on utilizing existing GLA powers, resources, funding, and brokerage.
• Collaborate with GLA teams to unblock sites and facilitate home construction.
• Triage sites that cannot be unblocked through internal resources and powers to the MHCLG NHA team for alternative solutions.
• Maintain regular and open communication with the MHCLG team regarding site unblocking progress.
• Provide specialist technical development support to identify solutions for accelerating housing delivery across various London schemes.
• Manage New Homes Accelerator London projects and related initiatives effectively, ensuring accurate record-keeping.
• Report clearly and regularly on projects, including outputs, budgets, and risks, preparing dashboards and update papers for key forums.
• Identify project proposals aligning with Mayoral and Government objectives for new homes and work with partners to bring them forward for delivery by 2029.

Requirements

• Good understanding of the development sector, including economic, financial, and organizational challenges in both private and public sectors.
• Excellent relationship-building skills to collaborate with a wide range of partners and achieve shared goals.
• Strong strategic thinking skills to identify long-term challenges and opportunities.

Skills

• Development viability
• Project finance
• Planning
• Brokerage
• Escalating issues
• Data collection and analysis
• Relationship building
• Strategic thinking

Location

• Union Street

Work Type

• Full-time
• Fixed Term Contract
• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• Level 3 strategic thinking
• Building and managing relationships level 3

Salary/Compensations

• £64,690 per annum

Benefits

• Hybrid working up to 3 days a week
• Paid every four weeks
• 30 days’ annual leave
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Interest-free bicycle loan
• Career average pension scheme

About the Company

• The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities.
• Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.
• The New Homes Accelerator Team is a new team in the Investment and Operations Unit in the Housing and Land directorate.
• The Government’s New Homes Accelerator (NHA) is a programme established by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to speed up the delivery of large-scale housing developments that have stalled.
• The NHA aims to increase the delivery of homes by the end of this Parliament (2029).
• Since the NHA was established, MHCLG, GLA and London Councils officers have worked in partnership to analyse London’s stalled sites and identify suitable interventions to accelerate their delivery, but are now taking this to the next level.
• In early 2026, we took this to the next level by establishing the NHA LDN team, to take a more proactive, London-led role, to identify stalled housing sites and finding practical ways to get them moving again.
• This GLA New Homes Accelerator Team acts as our central point of coordination within the GLA to other internal teams and to MHCLG, London boroughs and external partners, minimising disjointed or duplicative communication to key partner organisations.
• They will work closely with other teams to unblock sites and get homes built in London.

Equal Opportunity

• As part of GLA’s continuing commitment to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer we will be removing personal identifiable information from CVs and Personal Statements that could cause discrimination.
• London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels.
• We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
• We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
• We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.
• We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.
• Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview.
• Please note, should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible.
• The GLA is proud to be a Level 2: Disability Confident employer.
• We are committed to becoming a more inclusive and accessible organisation and creating a truly inclusive and accessible workplace and culture for our disabled staff.
• We have named Disability Equality as a key corporate priority within our EDI Strategy.
• We welcome and encourage applications from disabled applicants.
• Should you wish to opt into the scheme, please let us know during your application.