As Group Director of Homes and Communities, you’ll shape how homes are managed and how communities across our portfolio grow, connect, and flourish. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, you’ll be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, setting strategy, driving performance, and championing outstanding customer experience at every level.

What you’ll do:

You’ll lead the strategic and operational delivery of housing management, neighbourhood services, tenancy sustainment, community engagement, rent and service charges, and commercial services. You’ll ensure services are compliant, customer‑focused, and continuously improving - while keeping customers at the heart of every decision.

You’ll also:

• Lead large, multi‑disciplinary teams and develop a high‑performance culture

• Drive innovation and transformation across homes and communities

• Champion safeguarding, domestic abuse and independent living services

• Build strong partnerships with local authorities, health, and community stakeholders

• Represent the organisation at board level and externally

• Play a pivotal role in corporate strategy, budget planning, and long‑term transformation

Who we're looking for:

You’ll be a confident, values‑led senior leader with deep experience in housing or community‑focused services. You’ll bring strategic clarity, operational grip, and the credibility to influence at board and system level.

You’ll likely have:

• Proven senior leadership experience in housing, communities or a related sector

• Strong knowledge of housing legislation and regulatory standards

• Experience leading complex services at scale

• A collaborative approach and excellent stakeholder engagement skills

• A genuine commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

• A professional housing qualification (e.g. CIH) or equivalent experience

This is an opportunity to shape services that genuinely change lives - combining commercial insight with social purpose, and strategic leadership with hands‑on impact.

If you want a role where your decisions matter, your leadership is visible, and your work leaves a lasting legacy on communities - this is it.

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Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.