Private Sector Engagement Officer

This is a Gloucester City Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Private Sector Engagement Officer
• Job Location:                    BLDG674 
• Salary:                              £32,115 - £32,115 per annum 
• Hours per Week:              37.00 
• Contract Type:                  Permanent 
• Closing Date:                    08/03/2026 
• Job Requisition Number:  6093 
• This post is not open to job share

About the team

We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester.

Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day.  We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.

About the role

Are you passionate about helping people find a home? The Private Sector Enagagment Officer role is all about matching people in need of housing in Gloucester to the right home for them.  You will be part of the Housing Projects and Strategy Team. The team deliver key projects for the City Council alongside delivering more homes and working with partners on more effective use of both new and existing housing stock to meet the City’s housing needs.  Private Sector Engagement is a vital element of the team’s work. Officers working with private sector landlords to provide homes that allow the council to meet its housing duties, and supporting tenants to sustain their tenancies

The current market and level of demand for housing makes this extremely challenging. Homes. The team works at pace with both lanlord and the Housng Services team to deliver outcomes. We see ourselves as at the cutting edge of best practice continuingly looking for innovative solutions and work in a highly collaborative way. 

This post offer an exciting opportunity to continue this important work. In this key role, you will be responsible for finding new private sector supply, using the existing Landlord Incentive scheme to help procure private sector properties, ensuring good quality accommodation is provided, working with landlords and tenants to ensure new tenancies start successfully and are sustained, ideally leading to continued lettings with the landlord.

About you

You will be great at building relationships quickly and able to work with a diverse range of stakeholders focusing on areas of alignment that help deliver the aims of the role. You will demonstrate the the ability to manage caseloads, ensure information is gathered, stored and organised to ensure process compliance and high quality outcomes. The role is a hybrod one, with desk based work in the office or at home alongside site visits, taking part in face to face meetings and appointments.

We are very interested in candidates whose CVs can

• Have experience or transferable skills that could be used to work with private sector landlords
• Experience or the skills to support tenants in sustaining their tenancies

About Us

For all your hard work, you will receive the following;

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

How to apply 

Please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact David Durden via email at david.durden@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below:-

Private Sector Engagement Officer - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. 

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.

By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

Equality and Diversity
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.   

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability. 

We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantages because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process recruitement@gloucestershire.gov.uk  

Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here

If you wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis, please obtain approval from your current line manager that you may be released on a secondment before submitting an application form.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.