Private Sector Engagement Officer

Job Details

• Job Title:
  
  Private Sector Engagement Officer
• Job Location:
  
  BLDG
  674
• Salary: £32,115 - £32,115 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 08/03/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 6093
• This post is not open to job share

We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester. Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day.

We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.

Are you passionate about helping people find a home? The Private Sector Engagement Officer role is all about matching people in need of housing in Gloucester to the right home for them. You will be part of the Housing Projects and Strategy Team. The team deliver key projects for the City Council alongside delivering more homes and working with partners on more effective use of both new and existing housing stock to meet the City’s housing needs.

Private Sector Engagement is a vital element of the team’s work. Officers working with private sector landlords to provide homes that allow the council to meet its housing duties, and supporting tenants to sustain their tenancies.

The current market and level of demand for housing makes this extremely challenging. Homes. The team works at pace with both landlords and the Housing Services team to deliver outcomes. We see ourselves as at the cutting edge of best practice continuously looking for innovative solutions and work in a highly collaborative way.

This post offers an exciting opportunity to continue this important work. In this key role, you will be responsible for finding new private sector supply, using the existing Landlord Incentive scheme to help procure private sector properties, ensuring good quality accommodation is provided, working with landlords and tenants to ensure new tenancies start successfully and are sustained, ideally leading to continued lettings with the landlord.

• Find new private sector supply
• Use the Landlord Incentive scheme to procure private sector properties
• Ensure good quality accommodation is provided
• Work with landlords and tenants to ensure new tenancies start successfully and are sustained
• Lead to continued lettings with the landlord

You will be great at building relationships quickly and able to work with a diverse range of stakeholders focusing on areas of alignment that help deliver the aims of the role. You will demonstrate the ability to manage caseloads, ensure information is gathered, stored and organised to ensure process compliance and high quality outcomes. The role is a hybrid one, with desk based work in the office or at home alongside site visits, taking part in face to face meetings and appointments.

• Have experience or transferable skills that could be used to work with private sector landlords
• Experience or the skills to support tenants in sustaining their tenancies

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

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