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Senior Leadership Recruitment

This is a rewarding opportunity to join us and showcase your talent, creativity and determination to deliver excellent services for the community we serve

Dear applicant, 

I am delighted that you are interested in becoming our next Service Director of Homes and Neighbourhoods and hope that you find the information on our microsite helpful.

Our Vision

Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district that combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life – leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives.

Homes and Neighbourhoods

Kirklees Homes and Neighbourhoods is on an improvement journey to become a landlord of choice, recognised for service excellence by our tenants. We are striving to be an excellent landlord by putting tenants and communities first.

Like us, you will value well informed and engaged tenants whose voice helps to shape decisions for service design and delivery. You will lead a highly motivated, trained and supportive workforce that puts our tenants at the heart of all we do. Your financial acumen will help leverage the strength of the Housing Revenue Account to improve the experience of tenants.  Your experience will ensure we exercise good financial management and control as well as deliver value for money. You will bring relevant knowledge of systems and processes that enable robust data and insight, and ensure we design from the tenant’s perspective and enable place-based working.

As our Service Director of Homes and Neighbourhoods, you will have the opportunity to lead an improving service team and join our talented broader leadership team and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, inclusive services for all our tenants. Reporting directly to me, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing our organisational strategies and ensuring that our vision and Directorate objectives are met with excellence.

A strong collaborator and innovator, you will inspire and influence  colleagues and partners across the social housing sector in both Kirklees and West Yorkshire and continue to find innovative ways to change lives and improve outcomes.

If you feel that you have the skills and the track record required and can combine this with a real sense of ambition for tenants, the council and the borough at this exciting time, we would love to hear from you.

Best wishes

David Shepherd
Executive Director for Place