Strategic Lead, Regulation, Policy & Projects

Permanent

Grade 6 - £54,495- £64,811

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.

About the Role

This is a critical leadership role at the heart of Birmingham City Council’s commitment to delivering safe, compliant and high-quality housing services.

As Strategic Lead, you will lead the Directorate’s regulatory and assurance function, ensuring robust governance, compliance and continuous improvement across housing services. You will play a key role in strengthening the Council’s regulatory position, embedding a culture of accountability and improving outcomes for residents.

Working closely with senior leaders, Members and regulators, you will drive the Council’s response to legislative change, inspections and Ombudsman activity—ensuring services are compliant, transparent and resident-focused.

What You’ll Be Doing

Lead and embed a robust housing assurance framework, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
Oversee governance arrangements including Compliance Boards, reporting frameworks and improvement planning
Drive the Council’s approach to self-regulation, inspections and regulatory engagement
Lead on service improvement plans, managing risk and ensuring clear reporting to senior leaders and Members
Oversee Ombudsman activity, complaints insight and TSMs, ensuring learning is translated into service improvements
Deliver self-assessments, audits and mock inspections to strengthen service performance and compliance
Build strong relationships with regional and national partners to adopt best practice and influence the sector

About You

Significant experience working within housing regulation, compliance or assurance in a complex environment
Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape, including post-Grenfell legislative changes
Proven track record of developing and delivering assurance frameworks and driving service improvement
Experience engaging with regulators and leading responses to inspections, audits and Ombudsman findings
Ability to assess complex legislation and translate it into practical, operational delivery
Politically astute, with experience advising Members and presenting to senior governance forums
Strong leadership capability with experience managing multidisciplinary teams and complex programmes

Leadership & Impact

Lead a multidisciplinary team across policy, assurance, governance and regulatory activity
Drive a culture of compliance, continuous improvement and resident focus across housing services
Provide clear, transparent reporting on performance, risk and compliance to senior stakeholders
Influence strategic decision-making through high-quality insight, data and recommendations
Ensure resident voice is embedded through feedback, performance reporting and engagement

Why Join Us

Play a key role in Birmingham’s housing compliance and improvement journey
Shape how services respond to regulation, legislation and resident expectations
Work at the centre of senior leadership and governance decision-making
Drive meaningful improvements to resident outcomes and service quality
Lead a high-impact function with visibility across the organisation
Collaborate with sector-leading partners and influence best practice
Be part of a Council committed to transformation and continuous improvement

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Job Description and Person Specification - A968-Strategic Lead Regulation, Policy & Projects- Grade 6 JDPS.pdf