Head – Affordable Housing Loans

Closing Date 11th October 2026

Interviews from week commencing 19th October

Working in the Affordable Housing Delivery team with Ruth Ryan, Assistant Director of Affordable Housing Delivery, the Head of Affordable Housing Loans role will play a critical role in deploying loans alongside grant funding programmes. You will be joining our friendly and talented team, who are dedicated to partnership working to secure delivery of affordable housing across England.

In particular, this role will initially be focussed on delivery of the £1bn funding available for Low-Interest Loans to be deployed through Homes England and the National Housing Bank. This role is a key linkage between the Affordable Housing team and Loans with responsibility for managing compliance across loans and grant dependant on portfolio.

This role is being created at a key time in developing and implementing the new product and is needed to stand up a new programme moving into delivery alongside our Social and Affordable Homes Programme allocations. Design work is well underway, but this is an opportunity to join at the point we will be moving the product through bidding, allocation and into operational delivery.

Alongside this key responsibility, as a Head of within the delivery team and a member of the SLT in Affordable Housing Grants, you will engage across all funding routes and with the wider team to ensure continuous improvement of processes, influence future programme design and support a positive culture.

Ruth believes respect, honest and good quality communication and relationship development supports quick resolution of issues and challenges if they do arise. Ruth believes in working in a collaborative way and values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.