Our work is driven by a passionate belief that our contribution as housing professionals is vital to making communities great places to live and work. Our unique position as the voice of the sector gives the people that work for us great opportunities to shape the future of housing. We’re looking for the best of the best to join us.
- Job title: Head of compliance
- Salary: £53,550 - £63,000 depending on experience
- Location/base: Hybrid– a combination of working from home and in the office based in Coventry
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Wednesday 26 February 2025
We’re seeking an individual with extensive compliance experience to lead CIH’s corporate governance, risk management, data protection, and facilities management efforts. You’ll have a strong understanding of what it takes to lead a high-performing team, paired with a high level of personal integrity and the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion. Excellent communication skills are essential, as you’ll be adept at building relationships with stakeholders at all levels and conveying complex ideas in clear, accessible ways. With a keen commercial mindset, you will play a key role in supporting the growth of the organisation while ensuring that governance requirements are developed and implemented effectively.
- Job title: Press and communications officer
- Salary: £33,600 - £37,187.50
- Location/base: Hybrid - Home/CIH office, occasional travel around the UK will be required
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Sunday 23 February 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced press and communications officer to join our team, to help amplify CIH’s presence as the leading voice for the housing profession.
We’re seeking an individual with an eye for detail and excellent writing skills, with the ability to generate relevant, timely and engaging content for a variety of external channels and audiences. You’ll understand the media landscape, news agendas and how to create content with an engaging hook.
You’ll have the ability to prioritise a diverse workload, to manage multiple projects and stakeholders, with strong interpersonal skills to build relationships and work effectively across with a wide range of partners. You will also play a central role in developing and coordinating internal communication content to ensure colleagues are informed and engaged with CIH’s news and updates.
Working alongside a team of creative and enthusiastic communications professionals, this role reports directly to the head of communications.
Benefits that make a real difference
We want you to enjoy working at CIH, so it’s really important to us that we offer benefits that you value. Take a look below at some of the things you can take advantage of when you join us:*
- 25 days holiday, plus eight bank holidays as standard (pro-rated for part-time colleagues) plus, gifted days off over Christmas and New Year
- Flexible working to accommodate your work and personal commitments – we value outcomes and recognise that everyone has a unique working style
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Access to our employee assistance programme for life’s challenges
- Policies to support you with big life changes or difficult times, such as the menopause and caring responsibilities
- Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
- Private health care with the option to purchase for family members
- Generous sick pay allowance
- Financial support for eye test and help with the cost of glasses
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to CIH benefits, including our employee discount portal, Let’s Connect – tech scheme, and gym membership discounts
- Income protection scheme in case of extended period of illness
- Death in service benefit equivalent to three times your salary
- Helping you save for the future by contributing to a defined contribution pension scheme
- Access to Wagestream – a financial wellbeing platform to help you manage your wages.
- Full CIH membership – access all our member-exclusive content to build your housing knowledge
- A commitment to your professional development
- A flexible office space encouraging collaborative working.
We embrace hybrid working and encourage everyone in CIH to work from a location that suits them and our business needs.
No role is exclusively remote. Organisational cohesiveness is important to our overall performance; we value the benefits of coming together with colleagues to enable the cohesiveness of teams, departments, and collaborative working across CIH. This, and our operating model, means that there will be times when you are required to go to your local office, another CIH office, or another location such as a CIH event.
Your contracted office will usually be the CIH office that is the closest to where you live. CIH office locations can be found here – Contact details | Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
If you have any questions about our hybrid working policy or live more remotely, please contact us to ask how this would work in practice for the role you are applying for.
*Subject to availability in Republic of Ireland
