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Pay Rate: £300.00 to £500.00 per day PAYE, with flexible holiday pay

Hours: 37 hours per week

Length of Contract: 6 months

Location: Cowley Road Hub, CambridgeCB4 0DN

Working Arrangements: Hybrid (office days/remote days not confirmed) – travel between sites will be required

Location: Cambridge & surrounding areas | £2m budget responsibility

Are you an experienced Housing Compliance Manager with a strong background in landlord health & safety, building compliance and risk management?

We’re looking for a confident leader to oversee statutory compliance across a large property portfolio, ensuring housing and buildings remain safe, compliant and well managed.

The Role

You will:

• Lead a team of 7/8 compliance professionals, providing strong leadership, mentoring and performance management.
• Develop and implement landlord and building safety strategies, policies and procedures.
• Oversee compliance across areas including fire safety, asbestos and legionella.
• Manage audits, assurance programmes, risk assessments and remedial action plans.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory changes and ensure compliance with statutory requirements and best practice.
• Manage consultants, contractors and contractual performance, with responsibility for a £2m budget.
• Provide expert compliance and building safety advice to senior colleagues and stakeholders.
• Establish and monitor robust KPIs, reporting systems and continuous improvement processes.
• Travel between properties and offices and participate in a rotational out-of-hours emergency call-out service.

Essential Experience & Skills

• 3+ years’ experience managing landlord health & safety and property compliance within a similar organisation.
• Strong housing compliance experience covering at least two of: asbestos, fire safety and legionella.
• Proven team leadership and people management experience.
• Strong knowledge of building safety legislation, regulatory requirements and risk management.
• Experience managing contractors, consultants, procurement and contracts.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and decision-making skills.
• Meticulous, organised and able to manage competing priorities and deadlines.

Essential Qualifications

• HNC or equivalent professional qualification in Building Surveying, with relevant construction industry experience.
• NEBOSH or recognised landlord/property compliance qualification.
• GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths.
• Level 4+ Fire Safety / Fire Risk Assessment qualification.

Additional requirements:

Enhanced DBS clearance, full UK driving licence with business-use insurance, ability to travel between sites, and availability for rotational emergency call-outs.

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Anticipated Length of Assignment:Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

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