Job Details:

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal. 

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 3 May 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE.

 

Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work. 

 

Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles. 

 

Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.

 

More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.

 

Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.

The Role:

As Asset Data and Quality Manager, you too can make a powerful contribution. You’ll be critical to ensuring that all Directorate decisions, investments and services are driven by accurate, high-quality data and robust systems. Helping us to be fully compliant, deliver on better value for money, and improve service outcomes.

 

You’ll be joining the Housing Directorate, which delivers essential services to residents across the City, managing a diverse portfolio of over 21,000 homes. Crucially, we want residents’ needs and experiences to be at the heart of how data is collected, managed and presented. So that we can foster transparent communication and resident-centred, inclusive planning.

 

You’ll lead the Data and Quality team, making sure all asset and compliance data is well‑managed and used to guide clear, evidence‑based forecasts for housing investment. You’ll design a holistic approach that enables effective planning, prioritisation and value for money investment across housing stock. Plus, you’ll oversee how our systems are designed and connected, making sure housing asset data, finance systems, and operational platforms all work smoothly together. Across all work, you’ll develop and enforce data governance policies and standards, and deliver audits to assure this. As well as ensuring that we’re compliant with ICT Security Policy and GDPR, and you’ll handle any relevant requests under the Freedom of Information Act. You will define what success looks like with performance metrics, regular monitoring and key performance indicators, so that you can ensure excellence. When it comes to budgets, your aims will be to ensure affordability, feasibility, sustainability and value for money to the highest standards for residents.

 

You’ll provide accurate data to a range of stakeholders, which be used to support business cases, lifecycle investment appraisals, and external funding opportunities. The data will enable the delivery of strategic priorities such as social value, decarbonisation and building safety. To this end, you’ll prepare detailed documentation, briefings and reports to senior stakeholders. It’s key that you build positive working relationships so that you’re in a position to influence, negotiate and challenge.

 

You’ll be the directorate’s go‑to expert for asset data systems, ensuring they’re included in future digital planning and integrate smoothly with tools like BIM and AutoCAD. You’ll also make sure staff get the training they need to use these systems effectively.

 

To bring us forwards, you’ll keep up to date with new legislation and best practice, introducing ways to be more efficient. You’ll encourage a learning culture across the service.

 

We’re a thriving, forward-thinking place to work. You’ll be supported to be ambitious and excel. This is your opportunity to lead the development of robust systems and standards that strengthen compliance, drive better value for money, and ensure our investments and services genuinely reflect residents’ needs and experiences.

 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

To be suited to the role, you’ll have experience in developing and maintaining databases, overseeing systems and managing associated contracts. You’ve worked in housing or property environments.

 

Communication and collaboration are key here. You’ve led a team to deliver improvements and successful outcomes. Worked in consultation with different departments for the same purpose. And presented to a wide range of stakeholders – including senior managers, residents, contractors and non-technical experts. You can confidently translate information into written reports too.

 

We’d like for you to be experienced at working with residents and local councillors in politicised environments. You’re mindful to maintain confidentiality and sensitivity.

 

In your experience of managing projects, you’ve focused on prioritisation, tracking and delivering measurable outcomes. You’ll also bring extensive knowledge of asset management and compliance systems, including in relation to long-term maintenance strategies and business planning. You’re knowledgeable about quality assurance and compliance across the data management lifecycle. Excellent digital skills are matched with an understanding of data governance, GDPR, and ICT security.

 

At your core, you’re a problem-solver, able to make analytical judgements and decisions. You can manage your own workload and adapt to conflicting demands to meet agreed deadlines.

 

We’re interested to see any relevant formal qualifications, but these are not strictly necessary. Equivalent experience also works for us.

 

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

 

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

 

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

 

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

 

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

 

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.