The Roles
Head of Finance
Permanent
Full-Time: 37 hours per week
Grade/Salary range: Grade L - £62,721 - £70,328 (pay award pending wef 1 April 2025)
Come and work for an award-winning organisation!
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking council. We are committed to making Cheltenham a better place to live and work, enabling communities and businesses to thrive whilst protecting what is good about our town.
We aim to be an employer of choice where everyone is treated fairly and feels valued and respected. We aim to provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment that encourages our people to work together, provides opportunities for them to reach their full potential and achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Working at Cheltenham Borough Council means working as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team.
About the role
Are you a motivated finance professional seeking your next career opportunity to shape your own team to support our Council to achieve its ambitious growth plans?
Cheltenham are an extremely ambitious Council – committed to becoming carbon net zero by 2030 and the Cyber Capital of the UK all whilst continuing to support all our communities. And our aspirations are more than words – we have won national awards for our commercial approach as a Council and our Golden Valley development has recently been named in the Government’s National Cyber Strategy.
Following the Council’s recent organisational change to bring the housing services back into the Council we are looking for a Head of Finance to bring together two finance teams previously working for separate organisations. Cheltenham is only one of two District Councils in Gloucestershire who still own their own housing stock and with the proposed changes to Local Government organisation and focus on affordable housing, this provides a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference to tenants and residents in the town.
Likewise, the general fund budget has successfully delivered over £4m of savings since the pandemic and as we move into a period of recovery the focus is shifting to delivering the clear ambitions set out in the Council’s Corporate Plan.
The team are dynamic, close knit and passionate about the town and making a difference to the place they live. We are looking for an energetic individual who can work with senior leaders to build on our vision to provide continuous opportunities for the team and ensure that our Council is financially secure and sustainable into the next chapter of Local Government.
What can we do for you...
- An excellent pension scheme. You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A generous holiday entitlement of 26 days rising to 31 days (pro-rata excluding Bank Holidays) after 5 years.
- A flexible and agile working environment. We aim to provide opportunities to work from home or elsewhere and offer flexibility in working hours.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Two days (pro-rata) paid time off for volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes.
- Access to a free employee counselling service.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will then have access to our Healthcare Cashback Plan.
- A cycle to work scheme.
- Low-cost town centre parking
- A commitment to employee wellbeing.
Accountant – Housing Finance (HRA)
Permanent
Full-Time: 37 hours per week
Grade/Salary range: Grade J - £47,227 - £52,547 (pay award pending wef 1 April 2025)
Come and work for an award-winning organisation!
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking council. We are committed to making Cheltenham a better place to live and work, enabling communities and businesses to thrive whilst protecting what is good about our town.
We aim to be an employer of choice where everyone is treated fairly and feels valued and respected. We aim to provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment that encourages our people to work together, provides opportunities for them to reach their full potential and achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Working at Cheltenham Borough Council means working as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team.
About the role
Are you a motivated finance professional seeking your next career opportunity to use your Housing Finance knowledge and experience to ensure our Council are financially sustainable and ready for any future sector changes?
Cheltenham are an extremely ambitious Council – committed to becoming carbon net zero and the Cyber Capital of the UK all whilst continuing to support all our communities in uncertain times. And our ambitions are more than words – we have won national awards for our commercial approach as a Council and our Golden Valley development has recently been named in the Government’s National Cyber Strategy.
Following the Council’s transfer of housing services from Cheltenham Borough Homes back to the Council in July 2024, we are looking for a Housing Finance Accountant who can bring their knowledge and expertise to our medium and long term plans for our housing stock. With over 4,500 Council homes together with a portfolio of affordable and private rented units, there is no shortage of ways in which our finance team can support the Council’s ambitions to provide affordable and safe homes for the people of Cheltenham.
Cheltenham is only one of two District Councils in Gloucestershire who still own their own housing stock and with the proposed changes to Local Government organisation and focus on affordable housing, this provides a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference to tenants and residents in the town.
The general fund budget has successfully delivered over £4m of savings since the pandemic and the new combined finance team is looking to bring some of the same methodology to the housing revenue account to improve the sustainability of the existing 30 year business plan. As we move into a period of recovery from the last five years, the focus is shifting across the Council to delivering the clear ambitions set out in our Corporate Plan.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their own knowledge and expertise within the role whilst also building technical resilience across the team to ensure that our Council is financially secure and sustainable into the next chapter of Local Government.
What can we do for you...
- An excellent pension scheme. You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A generous holiday entitlement of 26 days rising to 31 days (pro-rata excluding Bank Holidays) after 5 years.
- A flexible and agile working environment. We aim to provide opportunities to work from home or elsewhere and offer flexibility in working hours.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Two days (pro-rata) paid time off for volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes.
- Access to a free employee counselling service.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will then have access to our Healthcare Cashback Plan.
- A cycle to work scheme.
- Low-cost town centre parking
- A commitment to employee wellbeing.
Climate & Decarbonisation Manager.
Permanent
Full-Time: 37 hours per week
Grade/Salary range: Grade J - £47,227 - £52,547 (pay award pending wef 1 April 2025)
Come and work for an award-winning organisation!
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking council. We are committed to making Cheltenham a better place to live and work, enabling communities and businesses to thrive whilst protecting what is good about our town.
We aim to be an employer of choice where everyone is treated fairly and feels valued and respected. We aim to provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment that encourages our people to work together, provides opportunities for them to reach their full potential and achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Working at Cheltenham Borough Council means working as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team.
About the role
Cheltenham Borough Council own and manage some of the most significant buildings and structures in the town; with over 4,500 council homes, commercial, leisure, and municipal buildings, including listed buildings with histories spanning hundreds of years, swimming pools, war memorials and even a football stadium!
The Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019 and has made a commitment to be a net carbon zero council and borough. Our carbon reporting has identified our main area of improvement as our Scope One emissions and we are looking to focus on areas where we can decarbonisation our expansive and diverse property portfolio.
You will work across the Council and more widely with key stakeholders to influence and secure progress. You will provide oversight of the delivery of our Climate Action Plan across the Council, whilst helping to create and deliver new initiatives to support delivery of our overarching goals.
This role requires a proactive individual to be the strategic driving force behind achieving our mission, making lasting positive change by reducing emissions and influencing the actions of others across our town to do the same.
We’re investing in our team as much as we are in our properties, and we’ll make sure you’ll never stop learning and progressing here. Working with like-minded, equally passionate professionals, no two days are the same and each will bring its own challenges and its own opportunities.
What can we do for you...
- An excellent pension scheme. You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A generous holiday entitlement of 26 days rising to 31 days (pro-rata excluding Bank Holidays) after 5 years.
- A flexible and agile working environment. We aim to provide opportunities to work from home or elsewhere and offer flexibility in working hours.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Two days (pro-rata) paid time off for volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes.
- Access to a free employee counselling service.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will then have access to our Healthcare Cashback Plan.
- A cycle to work scheme.
- Low-cost town centre parking
- A commitment to employee wellbeing.
Head of Asset Management & Estates
Permanent
Full-Time: 37 hours per week
Grade/Salary range: Grade L - £62,721 - £70,328 (pay award pending wef 1 April 2025)
Come and work for an award-winning organisation!
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking council. We are committed to making Cheltenham a better place to live and work, enabling communities and businesses to thrive whilst protecting what is good about our town.
We aim to be an employer of choice where everyone is treated fairly and feels valued and respected. We aim to provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment that encourages our people to work together, provides opportunities for them to reach their full potential and achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Working at Cheltenham Borough Council means working as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team.
About the role
Are you a motivated estates and asset management professional seeking an opportunity to be at the forefront of the delivery of our Council’s commercial and housing asset management strategies?
Cheltenham are an extremely ambitious Council – committed to becoming carbon net zero as well as delivering developments aligned to shaping the future cyber ecosystem of our town to support all our communities and create growth for all our residents. And our ambitions are more than words – we have won national awards for our commercial approach as a Council and our Golden Valley development has recently been named in the Government’s National Cyber Strategy.
Following the Council’s recent organisational change to bring the housing services back into the Council we are looking for a Head of Strategic Asset Management and Estates to bring together expertise across two teams previously working for separate organisations.
Cheltenham is only one of two District Councils in Gloucestershire who still own their own housing stock. With the proposed changes to Local Government organisation and focus on affordable housing, this provides a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference to tenants and residents in the town whilst also implementing strategies across both commercial and housing portfolios which drive growth and economic development in Cheltenham and the wider area.
The transition of our housing services has also recognised the renewed importance of developing asset management strategies that are shaped by accurate data whilst maintaining a commercial focus. This role will provide greater alignment between strategic asset management for housing and the commercial estate as well as measuring the ongoing success of projects and opportunities brought forward for implementation.
The successful candidate will have an innovative and forward-thinking mind-set, a strong track record in leading teams to deliver new initiatives and ensure that key asset management decisions are taken safely with all the risks understood.
What can we do for you...
- An excellent pension scheme. You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A generous holiday entitlement of 26 days rising to 31 days (pro-rata excluding Bank Holidays) after 5 years.
- A flexible and agile working environment. We aim to provide opportunities to work from home or elsewhere and offer flexibility in working hours.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Two days (pro-rata) paid time off for volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes.
- Access to a free employee counselling service.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will then have access to our Healthcare Cashback Plan.
- A cycle to work scheme.
- Low-cost town centre parking
- A commitment to employee wellbeing.
Head of Property Management & Decarbonisation
Permanent
Full-Time: 37 hours per week
Grade/Salary range: Grade L - £62,721 - £70,328 (pay award pending wef 1 April 2025)
Come and work for an award-winning organisation!
We are an ambitious and forward-thinking council. We are committed to making Cheltenham a better place to live and work, enabling communities and businesses to thrive whilst protecting what is good about our town.
We aim to be an employer of choice where everyone is treated fairly and feels valued and respected. We aim to provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment that encourages our people to work together, provides opportunities for them to reach their full potential and achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Working at Cheltenham Borough Council means working as part of a committed, professional, and friendly team.
About the role
Are you a motivated building management professional seeking an opportunity to be at the forefront of the delivery of our future strategy for the Council’s property portfolio?
Cheltenham are an extremely ambitious Council – committed to becoming carbon net zero as well as delivering developments aligned to shaping the future cyber ecosystem of our town to support all our communities and create growth for all our residents. And our ambitions are more than words – we have won national awards for our commercial approach as a Council and our Golden Valley development has recently been named in the Government’s National Cyber Strategy.
Following the Council’s recent organisational change to bring the housing services back into the Council we are looking for a Head of Property Maintenance and Decarbonisation to bring together expertise across two teams previously working for separate organisations. This is a newly created role which also reflects the increasing importance to align our decarbonisation strategies across our housing and non-housing portfolios to maximise the funding available to deliver the biggest impact on our carbon emissions.
You will be responsible for the building management and maintenance team at the Council. This includes the building surveyors who undertake reactive repairs and planned maintenance programme and the facilities management function across our key sites. The Council’s climate change and decarbonisation team will also transition into this team, including the technical and project team responsible for leading the retrofitting programme of our Council housing stock. You will also be the Senior Officer with oversight of the monitoring of key compliance functions across our large portfolio.
We are also preparing for a number of significant changes involving some of our key properties – the sale of our Municipal Offices facilitating a move to alternative premises and a strategic review of our Leisure Centre and sports facilities underway. This is an exciting time to join the organisation and play a key role in shaping both the medium-term future of where and how our staff work and how our customers access our services.
Cheltenham is only one of two District Councils in Gloucestershire who still own their own housing stock. With the proposed changes to Local Government organisation and focus on affordable housing, this provides a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference across both operational and housing portfolios to ensure our properties are fit for the future.
The successful candidate will have an innovative and forward-thinking mind-set, a strong track record in leading teams to deliver new initiatives and ensure that property management decisions are taken safely with all the risks understood.
What can we do for you...
- An excellent pension scheme. You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A generous holiday entitlement of 26 days rising to 31 days (pro-rata excluding Bank Holidays) after 5 years.
- A flexible and agile working environment. We aim to provide opportunities to work from home or elsewhere and offer flexibility in working hours.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Two days (pro-rata) paid time off for volunteering.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes.
- Access to a free employee counselling service.
- Upon successful completion of your probation period, you will then have access to our Healthcare Cashback Plan.
- A cycle to work scheme.
- Low-cost town centre parking
- A commitment to employee wellbeing.