Manager - NHB Office
Manager \- NHB Office
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Vacancy close date \- 13th July 2026
Interviews week commencing 20th July
A bit about the role...
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Working in the NHB Office and reporting to Lynsey Burns\-Allen, the Manager, NHB Office plays a critical role at the heart of the National Housing Bank’s operations. As part of a small, high\-performing and collaborative team, you will support the NHB Chief Executive Officer and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to deliver against ambitious business plan targets and wider strategic priorities.
This role is central to shaping the NHB internal communications and engagement strategy. You will act as the NHB’s Comms and Engagement Lead, ensuring that priorities, progress and achievements are clearly communicated across the organisation, helping to build understanding, alignment and momentum behind the NHB’s mission. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will develop strong relationships across the Agency and NHB.
Lynsey is committed to delivering an excellent, proactive business management function that enables leadership to operate effectively and transparently. You will support this by creating a communications and engagement delivery plan, ensuring that messaging is clear, timely and impactful, and that colleagues feel informed and connected to the NHB’s objectives. You’ll also ensure this aligns to the wider government’s approach to communication plans.
This is a unique opportunity to help create the communication and engagement approach of the NHB. Alongside supporting the smooth running of ELT and SMT activity, you will take ownership of initiatives such as colleague engagement planning, internal communications channels, and learning and development activity. You will also lead on developing annual communications and engagement calendars, ensuring activities are well planned, consistent and aligned to business priorities.
There are exciting opportunities to bring creativity and innovation to how the NHB engages its people \- whether through engagement surveys and action planning, onboarding and induction materials, or internal campaigns that celebrate success and reinforce organisational culture.
A bit about you…
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You will have extensive experience in a business management or internal communications, ideally within a complex or fast\-paced environment such as financial services or the public sector. You are confident working with senior leaders and understand the importance of clear, strategic communication in driving organisational performance and engagement.
You are an excellent communicator, with strong written and verbal skills, and a proven ability to translate complex information into engaging and accessible messaging for a range of audiences. You take a proactive and creative approach to communication, always looking for opportunities to improve how information is shared and how colleagues are engaged.
Highly organised and detail\-oriented, you are comfortable managing multiple priorities at pace while maintaining high standards. You are confident leading senior\-level meetings and producing high\-quality materials.
You are also passionate about colleague engagement and culture. You will enjoy taking ownership of engagement surveys and action plans, developing communications that resonate with colleagues, and helping to create an inclusive, collaborative environment where people feel informed, valued and connected to the organisation’s purpose and values.
As a strong collaborator, you build effective relationships across teams and functions, working flexibly and positively to achieve shared goals. You are adaptable, resilient and comfortable operating in an evolving environment, contributing to continuous improvement and helping to shape how the NHB grows and succeeds.
About the National Housing Bank
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Homes England is strengthening UK Government’s ambitions for housing and regeneration through the introduction of the National Housing Bank (NHB). The NHB is a new financial organisation designed to unlock investment at scale and accelerate the delivery of more homes, stronger places and thriving communities across the country. Backed with £16bn in new financial capacity, alongside £6bn already committed this Parliament, the NHB represents one of the most significant new interventions in the housing sector in a generation.
The NHB, operating as a subsidiary of Homes England, exists to unlock investment at scale and connect capital with capability. We use our financial capacity and deep local relationships to drive regeneration, enable innovation and create the conditions for sustainable growth. By pairing government\-backed finance with solutions that the market needs, we help partners bring forward the homes, infrastructure and long\-term development that transform places and support people to live well.
Purpose\-driven and built for impact, the NHB provides its partners the confidence and financial firepower to innovate and unlock complex sites, scale up investment and deliver at pace. Offering custom\-built finance, strong partnerships and a commitment to shaping better futures, the NHB enables investment that would not otherwise happen\- accelerating growth and creating the conditions for communities to flourish.
Joining the National Housing Bank offers a rare and exciting opportunity to help shape this new national organisation from the ground up; influencing how we operate, how we partner, and how we deliver impact across the country.
Who are we?
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Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well\-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long\-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What we offer...
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As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition \- GOV.UK
You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.
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