Head of Assets & Decarbonisation Job Vacancy in Tongwynlais, Wales, UK

Are you an experienced property professional with well-developed project management skills?  Can you engage people positively and communicate plans enthusiastically in a clear, concise way?  Do you have a good eye for detail along with the skills and expertise to drive service delivery to ensure their housing stock meets future decarbonisation targets and maintains the Welsh Housing Quality Standard? 

If so our client, is looking for a Head of Assets & Decarbonisation in Tongwynlais, Cardiff that might be just what you’re looking for.

Salary: £53,075 to £55,868

Hours: 35 per week

Fully flexible agile working options 

Head of Assets & Decarbonisation Role:

They are looking for a Head of Asset & Decarbonisation to lead their Asset Team and deliver their Asset Management and Decarbonisation Strategy in order to successfully reduce the environmental footprint of thei properties and wider business.

You will lead on the ongoing surveying, energy performance assessment and appraisal of their built assets and manage the Asset team to deliver annual decarbonisation programmes across their housing stock. You will be working closely with their Finance, Development, Housing, Community Regeneration and Customer Services teams, as well as ensuring that their tenants are engaged in their decarbonisation and sustainability activities.

Head of Assets & Decarbonisation Requirements:

They are looking for a highly organised, proactive, and enthusiastic individual with a genuine interest in the net zero carbon agenda, who can lead and shape a very busy, high performing team and work effectively with colleagues to achieve positive outcomes. You will need a relevant degree level qualification along with a relevant professional qualification (such as CIOB or RICS) or demonstrate that you are actively working towards gaining professional status.

You should have good, well-developed project management skills and experience and a proven track record of managing programmes of work and budgets, and line management experience. A highly skilled and effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will thrive on working collaboratively and building strong working relationships with other internal teams and external organisations.  You will be very IT literate and digitally focused with a passion for developing asset management and GIS systems to drive efficiencies and improve processes. You will have strong analytical skills to understand and interpret property data intelligence to make the right business decisions.

Continually improving is at the heart of what they do so the ability to be flexible and adaptable and to offer an innovative and creative approach is important to them.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, they encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

About them:

The company is an award-winning organisation that currently owns and manages 3,000 rented properties in mid and south Wales, working in several local authority areas. It is a subsidiary company which provides maintenance services and is built on an in-house contractor model, designed to drive quality customer services, whilst achieving substantial planned growth and expansion.  

They are proud to be an equal opportunity employer! They respect and seek to empower their people by supporting the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within their workforce. They believe that the more inclusive they are, the better their work will be. They welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds particularly from people of colour or people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in their workplace.

If you think you are suitable for the Head of Assets & Decarbonisation role, please apply now!

Closing Date: midnight Sunday 14 May 2023

Interview Date: Friday 26 May 2023