Project Officer x2

Project Officer x2 Join Stonewater as Project Officer: help deliver affordable homes across the South, hybrid/remote with site travel, and grow your career in a values-led, customer-focused team. Apply Home Based, covering the South (East and West Sussex, Hampshire, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Dorset, Wiltshire & Devon). Do you want to help build affordable, quality homes for those who need it most and build your career at the same time? If this sounds like you, keep reading. At Stonewater, we have some of the most significant growth targets in the sector and we’re looking for two Project Officers to help support to drive forward our development programme. We understand how desperately these new homes are needed and our second strategic partnership with Guinness and Homes England has secured a further £250m, to build 4,180 additional affordable homes by 2029, giving us the long-term security we need to focus on building quality homes for those who need them most. We’ve built a strong platform to deliver our goals, making this a fantastic time for new colleagues to join our organisation and be part of our next phase. Our targets are significant and mark us as one of the biggest developing Housing Associations in the country, with a ground-breaking approach to environmental standards, but it’s not just numbers. Our staff truly live our values and are able to fully bring their whole selves to work every day. Putting customers at the heart and working in a collaborative, proactive and solution-focussed way makes our colleagues our biggest asset. Although this is a home based role, it will involve some occasional travel to development sites within the South. The ability to independently travel to various sites within the region is essential. Flexibility in how this is achieved is left to the candidate’s discretion. The ideal candidate will: Have an interest in or knowledge of housing is preferred, especially affordable housing. Be confident, independent, and pro-active in your approach to your work and relationships with colleagues. Have a customer focussed approach to your work. Have excellent administrative and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail. Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to contribute to the production of written reports and ensure effective project management to internal and external stakeholders. Have good numerical and organisational skills to enable you to prioritise and manage a varied workload. Job Description - Project Officer Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document. 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. Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date. Department Development & Regeneration Role Project Officer Locations South Yearly salary £26,897 Employment type Full-time Car allowance included No Hours per week 37.5 Expiry date 03 July, 2026 About Stonewater At the core of our mission as a registered social landlord is the commitment to safe, affordable housing for people of all ages and backgrounds. Guided by our Vision - that everyone should have the opportunity to have a place that they can call home - we offer homes for rent, shared ownership, and purchase. Our specialised services include retirement and supported living schemes for older and vulnerable people, safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community, domestic abuse refuges, and young people’s foyers.