Director of Resident & Building Safety

Director of Resident & Building Safety

Department: Property and Assets
Reports to: Executive Director of Property and Assets
Location: UK (Flexible, with travel as required)
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

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About Anchor

At Anchor, we are committed to providing safe, high-quality homes and services for our residents across the UK. As England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, we pride ourselves on delivering excellence in asset management, compliance, and customer satisfaction. We’re seeking an exceptional leader to join our Property Delivery Management team and champion resident and building safety across our diverse portfolio.

The Role

Reporting to the Executive Director of Property & Assets, the Director of Resident & Building Safety will lead our asset compliance, fire, and building safety teams, providing strategic and operational oversight to ensure Anchor meets its high standards for safety, compliance, and service delivery. Leading the transformation of our approach to resident and building safety, you will manage a team of up to 25 colleagues and a budget of £20-30m, driving innovative strategies, overseeing statutory compliance contracts, and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.

This is a key role, working with property delivery teams to align with Anchor’s business plan, delivering value for money, and ensuring resident satisfaction remains at the heart of our operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of Anchor’s Compliance and Building Safety Programme, ensuring full compliance with statutory and regulatory obligations (including the Big 6, Fire Reform, and Building Safety Acts).
• Oversee procurement and management of high-value M&E and compliance contracts, maximising economies of scale and value for money.
• Develop and implement strategies, policies, and processes that enhance safety, reliability, and service standards within budget.
• Provide expert guidance to the Executive Leadership Team on financial planning and compliance requirements.
• Build and empower a high-performing team, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration.
• Horizon scan for legislative and regulatory changes, ensuring Anchor remains ahead of the curve.
• Drive customer-centric compliance programmes, embedding resident engagement and satisfaction into decision-making.

What We’re Looking For

Experience: Extensive leadership experience in a complex property-related business, with a proven track record in asset compliance, fire, and building safety. Demonstrable success in managing high-value contracts and leading teams through change.

Knowledge: Deep understanding of social housing and care home environments, including regulatory frameworks (e.g., CQC, Big 6, Fire Reform, Building Safety Acts), procurement, and JCT/NEC contracts.

Skills: Strategic thinker with the ability to translate legislation into actionable plans. Strong commercial acumen, risk management expertise, and a talent for building competent, empowered teams.

Qualifications: Degree-educated (or equivalent experience), ideally with a relevant professional qualification (e.g., CIOB, RICS).

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to make a real impact, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of thousands of residents while shaping the future of Anchor’s property and assets strategy. You’ll work in a dynamic, values-driven organisation that rewards innovation, collaboration, and leadership.

If you’re ready to lead with purpose and drive excellence in resident and building safety, we’d love to hear from you.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.