Manager - Development & Infrastructure Risk

Manager – Development & Infrastructure Risk – Homes England

Salary range provided by Homes England. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

Closing Date: 29/01/2026 at 23:59

Interviews will take place during the week commencing 09/02/2026

This role can be based in any of the following offices:
Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, or Northstowe.

You will join a specialist risk team which provides governance, risk and assurance advice and support to the first line teams responsible for managing our Development, Market Partners and Places, Affordable Housing and Infrastructure Grants and Building Safety programmes and activities.

You will help to introduce and embed best practice risk disciplines and processes across the Agency and Government, and will play an important role in building knowledge, skills, capacity, and a risk culture.

Working as part of an experienced and supportive team, you will help to provide an agile and collaborative risk service to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Directors and Senior Responsible Owners across several directorates to support the delivery of a range of complex interventions within the Agency’s risk appetite. The Development & Infrastructure Risk team acts as the second line risk function, providing specialist risk expertise to directorates that are collectively responsible for delivery of a range of interventions currently utilising over £12 bn of recoverable and non‑recoverable funding.

You will be educated to degree level or have broad ranging equivalent experience. You may also hold a relevant post‑graduate or professional qualification.

You have experience of promoting sound and commercially focused risk management principles and practices within a public and/or private sector environment. You have strong written and verbal communications skills and are comfortable presenting to individuals and teams. You can demonstrate a track record of negotiating with a wide range of people, who may have conflicting agendas and priorities.

You approach work with a positive mindset and have a commitment to work collaboratively and as part of a team. You enjoy solving problems and providing practical solutions and approaches to complex issues. You have a flexible approach to work and can operate effectively across multiple programmes and in a range of scenarios. You can make strong and robust decisions and are committed to always delivering a high‑quality output and to meet tight deadlines when required.

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.

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.

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.

Competitive salary, 33 days annual leave and a 50/50 hybrid working model. We’ll support you wherever possible so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Member of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme. Internal applicants salary policy applies. We offer an employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and discounts with leading high street…