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Job Title
Neighbourhood Officer
Organisation
Citizen
Job Description
Exciting Career Opportunity at Citizen!

Are you a driven professional seeking to make an impact in Housing?

With over fifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers, Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns. Find out more about the work we do here: Citizen

9 month Secondment Opportunity or Fixed Term
Location:          Coventry
Hours:              37 Mobile Working

Key Responsibilities:
  • Overseeing tenancy management and estate issues.
  • Dealing with Anti-Social behaviour from minor reports to serious cases and actively be involved in multi- agency work to resolve issues.<
  • Dealing with sensitive safeguarding matters
  • Carrying our regular block and estate inspections.
  • Involvement in the management of new build properties for all tenancy management issues.
  • Conducting tenancy reviews for all properties within the allocated patch
  • Reviewing service charges and depreciation

    Qualifications and experience:
  • Ability to carry out interviews to discuss sensitive customer issues
  • Excellent I.T Skills
  • Ability to develop successful professional relationships with partners to achieve positive outcomes
  • Willingness and ability to work flexibly and to attend meetings and other events outside normal business hours to meet the needs of the service
  • Ability to adapt positively to change, be resilient to challenges, obstacles, and handling conflict
  • Highly self-motivated, able to act with integrity and show drive and enthusiasm
  • Current driving licence and access to a car
  • Experience working with a Social Housing Provider or similar customer facing role (Desirable)
  • Ability to be innovative and look for ways to improve customer experience (Desirable)

    Manager’s Quote:
    Our Coventry Neighbourhoods teams manage around 19,000 customer homes within Coventry and surrounding areas. As Neighbourhood Officer, you will be responsible for the tenancy management of a patch within a geographical area.

    What We Offer:

    Innovative Environment: Be part of a forward-thinking organization that values creativity and innovation.

    Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.

    Collaborative Culture: Work alongside a team of dedicated professionals who support and inspire each other.

    We will be an employer of choice and invest in our people

    To deliver the best services for our customers we need employees who are passionate, committed and engaged. We will create a culture where every individual feels comfortable and confident to be themselves and the wellbeing of our employees is a priority. We will work together as one team and embrace our Citizen values.

    We will attract and retain the best and brightest professionals, support them to achieve their potential, and reward and recognise them for the fantastic work they do.

    Competitive benefits:
  • Annual leave purchase scheme – option to buy up to an additional 5 days per year
  • Annual leave starts at 25 days per year  plus bank holidays
  • Enhanced family leave (maternity, paternity and adoption)
  • Organisational Sick Pay
  • Generous Pension Scheme – The option to contribute 4%, 6% or up to 10% which Citizen will match
  • Life cover of three times your annual salary if you join the pension scheme

    Health and Wellbeing
  • We provide IT and Home Office equipment to support hybrid working
  • Occupational Health
  • EAP – a 24/7 telephone counselling service providing free, confidential advice.
  • Cashback scheme – cashback on optical, dental, prescriptions and a range of other medical costs meaning the costs are covered for employees. The scheme also offers, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!
  • Access to Citizen’s Wellbeing initiatives and Wellbeing platform

    Learning and Development
  • Extensive learning and development opportunities.
  • Opportunity to study for a professional qualification
  • Opportunity to join the Staff Consultative Forum and EDI Forum.

    Here at Citizen, our purpose is to provide homes that are a foundation for life.

    With over fifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers, Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns.

    This post is subject to a Basic DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

    Further information on our selection process and Equality and Diversity commitment can be found at www.citizenhousing.org.uk

    Closing date: 21st July 2025

    Interview date: TBC

    Please note we will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time.  We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified. 

    • Job Summary
    • Location

      Coventry

    • Organization

      Citizen

    • Job Type

      Fixed term contract - full time

    • Salary

      £35,199 pro rata + 2025/26 pay award pending

    • Closing Date

      21/07/2025

    • Reference ID

      35716

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