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Iceni Homes
Managing Director
Briefing Papers
November 2016
Iceni Homes
Managing Director
Contents
Welcome letter 1
About Iceni Homes 2
Meet the Iceni team 3
Role profile 5
Person specification 7
Terms and conditions 9
Recruitment timetable 10
Further information 10
How to apply 11
Appendix 1 | Recruitment monitoring form 12
Appendix 2 | Recruitment advertisement 14
Iceni Homes Managing Director
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Welcome letter
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in Iceni Homes. I hope you find these briefing papers interesting
and informative, and are inspired to find out more about us.
Iceni is a very successful delivery focussed organisation. We manage the housing
programmes of three housing associations in the East of England and we have a tremendous
track record. We are looking for a candidate who appreciates why we are successful and can
demonstrate they will ensure we continue to deliver.
We also want someone who is capable of building on the culture of successful partnership
working but recognises that the housing association developing environment is changing. You
must have the skills and experience to allow Iceni to deliver a range of different house tenures,
including open market sale and private rent for its shareholders. We also expect our Managing
Director to be well networked with the ability to bring in new customers for the Iceni service
offering.
Our new Managing Director will be responsible for the strategic leadership and financial
viability of the business and be a confident, open and engaging leader for our small but
dedicated team of project managers. You will need to hit the ground running as we are in the
final stages of implementing a governance review to ensure that Iceni’s direction of travel aligns
with its shareholders’ strategies and that we are clear about our priorities, understand the key
risks and the impact of these for the business in delivering its plans.
Please visit our website for further details about Iceni Homes at www.icenihomes.co.uk
I look forward to receiving your application.
Kind Regards,
Richard Hyde
Chair, Iceni Homes Ltd
Iceni Homes Managing Director
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About Iceni Homes
Iceni Homes is a unique partnership that creates high quality housing for people across the UK. We are a unique collaborative partnership between three leading East Anglian housing associations:
Colne Housing in Colchester Suffolk Housing in Bury St. Edmunds Hundred Houses in Cambridge
Iceni Homes also works very closely with a range of other housing stakeholders and is a development partner with the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). We offer one of the UK’s only truly comprehensive house-building services, covering planning, design and construction, through to delivery for the affordable housing sector. Put simply, no other organisation works in this way: a professional, effective and flexible approach is at the heart of our success in working with a wide variety of housing sector partners. Underpinning our ability to complete housing projects on-time and on-budget is our passion for knowledge-sharing and constant inter-partner communication. For the last ten years we have harnessed this approach to deliver successful projects that genuinely improve local residents’ quality of life – and help communities grow. Our distinctive knowledge-sharing and collaborative approach ensures we are well-placed to receive funding from bodies such as the Homes and Communities Agency – through which the government orchestrates its affordable house-building initiatives in England. For over a decade, Iceni Homes has provided excellent, modern, economically-sustainable housing to thousands of people. As we look forward to the next ten years, our focus is on further evolving our successful approach, and our ability to bring together private, public and non-profit organisations with a single common objective: the creation of affordable, high quality housing for people across the UK. Developments Iceni is an approved delivery partner of the Homes and Communities Agency and is highly regarded as a top performing delivery agent that will start building over 250 homes this year. Since being formed 12 years ago 2,500 new homes have been built by Iceni. This represents an above average build rate in relation to the estate size of Iceni’s shareholders and is a great demonstration of the innovation, forward thinking and value that the Iceni Homes development service model brings.
The Board have recently reviewed their longer term plans and have agreed an ambitious business strategy supported by a robust financial plan and a desire to extend its market reach. Opportunity Following the departure of our previous MD we are now seeking to fill this critical leadership role within our business. The successful candidate will be key to the realisation of our plans and measures of success.
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Meet the Iceni team
Richard Hyde Non-Executive Chair Richard is our Non-Executive Chair. He is CEO of HYDE, a sales, marketing and distribution business supplying hand tools to retailers for the construction industry. He has served as a non-executive director on the Boards of the Homes and Communities Agency and the housing association, Midland Heart.
Phil Murton Interim Managing Director Phil has worked for Iceni Homes since its inception in 2004. Originally starting out as a Project Manager Phil became Regional Director in 2008, and Development Director in 2014. Phil is currently acting up in a temporary capacity to the role of MD whilst a permanent replacement is recruited.
Emma Iveson Interim Development Manager Emma is responsible for overseeing the Development team, ensuring that the development programme is maximized and delivered in accordance to the business plan, on time and within budgetary constraints.
Amy Saunders Office Manager Amy has worked for Iceni Homes since 2011 starting as a Part Time Administrator, leading to Office Manager in 2015. Amy manages the administration function of the business, as well as providing support to the Managing Director.
Nathan Cole Project Manager Nathan has worked for Iceni Homes since 2007. As Project Manager, Nathan’s role includes supporting the Development Director and undertaking site development control for schemes identified for Iceni’s partners.
Samantha Moor Project Manager Samantha has worked for Iceni Homes since 2009. As Project Manager, Samantha’s role includes supporting the Development Director and undertaking site development control for schemes identified for Iceni’s partners.
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Debbie Blacow Project Manager Debbie has worked for Iceni Homes since its inception in 2004. As Project Manager, Debbie’s role includes supporting the Development Director and undertaking site development control for schemes identified for Iceni’s partners.
Amy Wiley Office Junior Amy joined the Iceni team in 2016 and is working toward her Level 2 Diploma in Business Administration through an Apprenticeship with West Suffolk College.
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Role profile
Job title: Managing Director (MD) of Iceni Homes Ltd
Reports to: Chair of the Board of lceni Homes Ltd (Iceni)
Responsible for: Line manager to the development director and overall responsibility for
all seven staff employed by or seconded to lceni
Role summary To provide internal and external leadership and relationship management, to deliver existing and new services to current customers, to develop new customers for these services and to maintain the financial viability of Iceni.
Main Duties To provide top quality leadership and commercial acumen ensuring that Iceni Home Ltd continues to be a partner of choice to existing and new clients and establishes the direction of the business.
Lead and inspire Iceni’s shareholders and customers to establish and deliver their current and future house building aspirations.
Provide leadership, support, personnel management and professional development to Iceni’s staff.
Be an effective role model for lceni, leading by example Promote good staff relations and to establish effective accountability mechanisms so
that staff are able to carry out their responsibilities. Ensure that the company has the necessary financial, human and other resources
required to deliver the approved business plan and company strategy. Assist and advise the Board in determining the strategies, policies and business planning of Iceni, playing a key corporate role in governance and decision making. Thereby ensuring that Development Partner status is maintained and extended through collaboration, thought leadership and innovative thinking in the context of a sector that is facing significant change, uncertainty and opportunity.
Prepare, present, deliver and review the business plan and risk register. Ensuring that these documents are updated and presented to each Board meeting.
Be responsible to the Board for managing the company so that effective development services are provided on time, within budget and in accordance with the regulatory framework.
Work with the Board to ensure future service developments (such as open market sale) match the aspirations of shareholders and are supported by a business case.
Work with the Board to ensure that any existing services that could be sold to new customers is supported by a business case.
Develop and deliver lceni's core policies, including equality and diversity, health and safety, client engagement, marketing and PR and staff development, drawing on best practice and guidance from the sector.
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Manage the business in line with the vision, values and objectives of the organisation, ensuring that there are proper systems of financial control, risk assessment, performance management and legal and regulatory compliance with appropriate reporting to the Board. Ensuring that the Iceni brand and business strategy is supported by high quality appropriately qualified staff resources.
Fulfil the obligations of the HCA and other funding bodies, in relation to bidding for and delivering agreed programmes, in line with framework delivery or service level agreements
Develop robust performance management systems Report, in the required depth, to the Board on performance and delivery and
summarise performance with a balanced scorecard. Establish effective control, review and reporting systems to ensure accountability for
actions can be provided to the Board. Have lead responsibility for the operational budget, ensuring effective monitoring and
control mechanisms are in place in accordance with agreed procedures and within delegated authority and audit requirements.
To act as an Ambassador for Iceni locally, regionally and nationally, setting its culture and behaviours, continuing to build on the Iceni brand as one that can be trusted for its commercial expertise and skill to deliver the diverse and growing house building aspirations of its shareholders in a cost effective and sustainable way.
Develop a strategy for marketing promoting lceni, ensuring its service offering is clear and understood.
Proactively improve links with shareholders executive teams and their Board. This includes attending shareholders Board or other meetings, if invited.
Maintain and develop effective professional networks that will add value to the company’s work and enhance the reputations of the shareholders, such that it is viewed as an influential and reliable partner.
To ensure that Iceni is a well-managed and cost effective organisation that gives shareholders and customers a commercial and better value for money service than any alternative.
Working with the FD prepare annual financial budgets for up to five years ahead, agree key performance indicators (KPIs) and then manage performance against budget and the KPIs
Service the Board, working closely with the Chair to agree on the preparation of reports, manage the agenda and ensure there is effective liaison between meetings.
Keep the Board informed on new legislation, required changes in policy and procedure, ensuring that Board members have sufficient information to enable them to discharge their responsibilities effectively.
Working with the FD or third party to fulfil the role of Company Secretary, ensuring that where necessary appropriate legal advice is sought.
Ensure that all statutory and legal obligations are met, paying particular attention to Health and Safety.
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Person specification
Core competencies: Extensive experience and knowledge of development, project management and
house building. Acts with integrity, actively promotes and support the values, ethos and aims of lceni,
building confidence in the brand and services it provides. Excellent verbal, written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Strong negotiating and influencing expertise, able to work intuitively and liaise
effectively with a wide range of stakeholders and audiences. Brings a commercial approach to the role.
Knowledge and experience: Broad experience of operating at a senior level in the house building industry, with
RPs, developers, contractors or related sectors. Experience of the development, project management and grant application and
management of affordable, social rent and other non-market and market forms of housing.
Has a proven track record of managing a range of stakeholder relationships with RPs and ideally the HCA, local authorities and developers, producing tangible outcomes in the pursuit of business growth.
Able to show a good grasp of the regulatory and funding framework for RPs, with evidence of understanding HCA, local authority and funders' requirements.
Strong strategic business planning skills, able to translate strategic objectives into delivery.
Experience of working with residents groups, parish councils and landowners to enable and facilitate the delivery of new high quality homes.
Skills and abilities:
Strong financial ability; able to assess risk and promote risk awareness without being risk averse.
Able to analyse and disseminate complex information, including investment appraisal and risk management.
Able to produce winning bids, writing clearly and concisely. Able to demonstrate accountability to the Board, establishing a positive relationship
with the Chair and members to ensure the Board is strong, effective and fit for purpose
Prince2 or equivalent project management experience. IT literate, comfortable with using MS Office including email, PowerPoint and Excel
for analysis and presentations. Personal behaviours and style:
A motivational, innovative and inspirational leader, able to maximise the performance of teams and develop individual potential.
Approachable, personable and influential; able to form positive relationships and secure buy-in from staff and senior people with different and often competing interests
Actively leads by example with the professional conduct expected of a leader Willingness and ability to travel regionally to represent and promote lceni Homes.
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Able to work occasional evenings and weekends. Proactively demonstrates a strong commitment to equality and diversity A self-starter, able to work on own initiative, exercise good judgement and be
tenacious in pursuing opportunities
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Terms and conditions
4.1 Remuneration
Basic salary: c£80,000 plus performance related bonus up to 15%
4.2 Benefits
Annual Leave: 25 days holiday rising one per day for each completed year of service up to 29 days
Pension contributions: Employer 10% (of basic salary) employee 5%
Health insurance: Private health insurance is provided. You may pay the additional cost of adding your family
Car benefits: You will be entitled to a 3 year £5,000 interest free loan to purchase a car. Business mileage is reimbursed in line with HMRC guidelines.
4.3 Commitment required
37.5 hour week but expected to work additional hours as required without overtime.
4.4 Additional information
Additional information about Iceni Homes is available on the organisation’s website –
http://www.icenihomes.co.uk/
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Recruitment timetable
Recruitment stage Date
Closing date for applications 12.00pm, Saturday 3rd December 2016
Initial interviews w/c 12th December 2016
Final interviews 6th January 2017
Further information
For an informal and confidential discussion about the position, please contact one of our
retained advisors at Altair Ltd:
Anna Hammond, Director at Altair Ltd on 07909 445 616, office: 020 7934 0175 or
email: [email protected]
Kimberley Wallace, HR Consultant at Altair Ltd on 07585 954 218, office: 020 7934
0175 or email: [email protected]
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How to apply
To apply for the Managing Director position at Iceni Homes, please go to:
http://www.altairltd.co.uk/job/iceni-md-167/. Complete our registration form and attach the
following documentation (please save your files with your surname first, followed by your first
name and a description of the file):
A detailed CV including details of positions held
A supporting statement explaining your motivation in applying for this position at Iceni
Homes and also addressing how you meet the requirements of the person specification
Full contact details (name, job title, organisation, phone and email) for two referees
(including your current employer if applicable). Please note we will not take up
references without your prior permission
Completed “Recruitment Monitoring Form” (a Word version is available on our
website) and attached as reference at Appendix 1 of this recruitment pack
The closing date for applications is: 12pm on Saturday 3rd December 2016 and the job
reference code is: ALT167.
Your application will be acknowledged and treated with strictest confidence.
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Appendix 1 | Recruitment monitoring form
Diversity monitoring form
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
Iceni Homes is committed to implementing Equal Opportunities in employment. All applicants for employment are asked to complete the following details. This information, which is used solely for monitoring purposes, will be treated as confidential and will be separated on receipt before consideration of applicants’ takes place.
Full name Date
Gender Male Female Date of birth
Vacancy applied for
Where did you see the vacancy advertised
Do you consider yourself to have a mental or physical disability which has substantial and long term adverse effect upon your ability to carry out normal day to day activities? Yes No
If yes, please give brief details, and any facilities or provision you require for attending the interview.
Ethnic Origin - Please tick the box which you feel best describes your ethnic origin
WHITE British Irish Gypsy or traveller Any other white background
MIXED/MULTIPLE ETHNIC GROUPS White and Black Caribbean White and Black African White and Asian Any other Mixed/multiple ethnic background
ASIAN/ASIAN BRITISH Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Any other Asian background
BLACK/AFRICAN BACKGROUND African Caribbean Any other Black/African/Caribbean Background
OTHER ETHNIC GROUP Arab Any other ethnic group
PREFER NOT TO SAY
Religion – Please tick a box which you feel best describes your religion
None Hindu Sikh
Christian (All denominations)
Jewish Any other religion
Buddhist Muslim Prefer not to say
Sexual Orientation – Please tick a box which you feel describes your sexual orientation
Heterosexual Gay Woman Other
Gay Man Bisexual Prefer not to say
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Recruitment advertising monitoring - Job reference code ALT167
How did you find out about this opportunity?
Please indicate “YES” as appropriate
Altair e-bulletin
Altair website
Approached directly by Altair
Online browsing
Inside Housing online
Construction news/ Careers in
Construction
Iceni website
Word of mouth
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Appendix 2 | Recruitment advertisement
Iceni Homes
Expert solutions, uniquely delivered
Managing Director
Bury St Edmunds, c£80,000 per annum plus bonus and benefits
Iceni Homes is a unique partnership that creates high quality housing for people across the UK. We are a unique collaborative partnership between three leading East Anglian housing associations. We are now looking for a skilled development professional to provide top quality leadership and commercial acumen, ensuring that Iceni Homes continues to be a partner of choice to existing and new clients and establishes the direction of the business. You will ideally have broad experience of operating at a senior level in the commercial house building industry and experience or knowledge of development within the social housing sector. Excellent relationship building, negotiating and influencing skills will be key to your success in this role. You will also need to demonstrate strong leadership and the ability to inspire and motivate others. If you possess a strong track record of success and would like to learn more about this unique and exciting opportunity, please click the “Apply” button – you will be transferred to the site of our retained advisor, Altair Ltd, where you will find the Briefing Papers. If, after reading the recruitment pack, you would like an informal and confidential discussion about this position, please contact our retained advisor at Altair Ltd:
Anna Hammond, Director on: 07909 445 616 (mobile), 020 7934 0175 (office) or email: [email protected]
Kimberley Wallace, HR Consultant on: 07585 954 218 (mobile), 020 7934 0175 (office) or email: [email protected]
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Saturday 3rd December 2016. The job reference
code in ALT167.
