The Role:

The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme is seeking a motivated, creative and delivery-minded individual to join us as our Strategic Homes Lead.

The role will focus on supporting the flagship Homewards locations to unlock and deliver homes to end homelessness. You will work with our local teams to build an exciting pipeline, bring together funders and delivery partners around those opportunities alongside leveraging major national commitments to drive this effort.

If you're an ambitious, action-oriented leader, we'd love to hear from you.

Role Description and Core Responsibilities

• Lead, shape and deliver the Homes strategy as part of The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme
• Identify and deliver new strategic initiatives from private sector and community partners that deliver on local Action Plans (the Homewards locations' roadmaps to preventing ending homelessness) - and deliver systemic change (e.g. around land, development or tenancy sustainment). The Homes Lead will need to use the TRF platform sensitively but for greatest impact.
• Build a network of expert support and work across the Homewards team to prioritise, co-develop and deliver initiatives, ensuring the strategy is backed by a robust delivery plan
• Oversee the delivery of the six flagship housing projects that Homewards has committed to deliver across our locations, working with our delivery partner and a project manager. These are in progress but require strategic oversight through to mobilisation.
• Support our locations to deliver on key local opportunities - identifying and working with Homewards partners to support locations to understand housing opportunities, convene funding and deliver. The Homes Lead will need to be open to understanding of the needs and nuances of each location.
• Work closely with our Finance Lead, who will be responsible for unlocking more funding and finance for solutions to end homelessness, to ensure a joined up approach which delivers maximum impact.
• Feed into wider Strategic Delivery approach and Homewards strategy as an expert in the Homes field.

Relevant Knowledge, Experience, and Personal Qualities

• Strong knowledge of what it takes to deliver homes locally, and fundamental national factors (e.g. funding, planning etc) that shape that delivery
• Experience working at a local and national level to deliver societal impact
• Comfortable and confident engaging with a diverse range of partners from public, private and voluntary stakeholders
• Creative thinker with a desire to drive systemic change - understanding the role TRF could play and a vision of what systemic change could look like when it to comes to delivering homes that end homelessness
• Experience delivering strategic projects and new partnerships, ideally working with the private sector and with multiple stakeholders, to create lasting impact
• Confident leader who can support and empower the Homewards team to confidently engage in this area
• Self-starter and desire to collaborate - we're a lean team who matrix work and person would need to be up for pitching in!

Application Process

If you are passionate about housing and homelessness and have a proven track record in delivering impact, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Please attach a cover letter to your CV detailing your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role.

This post is subject to receipt of two satisfactory references and proof of the right to work in the UK.

About Homewards

The Royal Foundation mobilises leaders, businesses, and individuals to address society's greatest challenges. Under the leadership of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, our initiatives are driven by world-class research, long-term partnerships, and a commitment to measurable, scalable impact.

In June 2023, Prince William and The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales launched Homewards. Homewards is a transformative five-year programme, working with six locations, to demonstrate that together it's possible to end homelessness - making it rare, brief and unrepeated.

The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme is recruiting to their Strategic Delivery team. This team will be focused on leveraging significant impact across the locations focused on key, cross-cutting, themes and report into the Programme Director.

• Salary: £70K to £80K DOE
• Location: Central London office/Homewards Office Location with regular London travel. Hybrid(60% office, 40% WFH). Occasional travel within the UK
• Contract type: 3 year FTC
• Holiday: 25 days per annum + BH
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
• Benefits: Pension scheme (non-contributory), private medical insurance, life insurance, season ticket loan