Growth and Partnerships Graduate

We are looking for a Growth and Partnerships Graduate to undertake a number of specific and bespoke projects and tasks to help CHP deliver our mission of transforming lives. As a CHP Graduate, you will ensure that the needs of the customer are met by providing the best quality of service at all times. This will be a Fixed term contract ending in 2026.

What You'll Be Doing

In your role as Growth and Partnerships Graduate at CHP, you will work across four different teams in the first year, then choose which area to specialise in for the second year of your contract.

During your time with our Strategic Regeneration and Growth teams you’ll build relationships with contractors and developers to find new site opportunities which are suitable to build property on.

When working with our New Homes Team you’ll support the project management of construction sites and handle the management of defects.

With our Sales and Commercial Lettings Team, you’ll be involved with sales and marketing; dealing with potential buyers, marketing various products and assisting with sale enquiries.

Across each area you’ll have involvement in existing live projects and support new projects as they develop. You’ll interact with stakeholders and will support our partnerships work with for-profit housing providers, helping us to achieve our growth strategy.

What We Are Looking For

• Be a confident and driven self-starter
• Have excellent communication skills and feel comfortable interacting with others and building relationships
• Work well as part of a team
• Have strong interpersonal skills
• Be able to work accurately and meet deadlines
• Be hard working, flexible and resilient
• Be well-organised and able to manage projects
• Have a high level of written communication with a good level of grammar in order to draft reports
• Be able to analyse data and complete data research
• Be confident in speaking to others and presenting ideas and progress of projects
  
  

Ready to make your application Please do read through the description at least once before clicking on Apply.

Committed to equality of opportunity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community. Applications for job share and part-time working will be considered on a business needs basis.

Wellbeing is a priority for us, and we aim to help our employees achieve a successful work/life balance and have adopted an agile working style. We host a range of learning activities to develop our people, support their career aspirations and professional qualifications. We encourage employee participation on all levels and we’re always open to new ideas or ways of working.

Benefits

• The salary for this post will be £25,000pro rata Per Annum.
• Learning and development opportunities
• Healthcare cash plan
• Robust employee reward and recognition programme
• Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• CHParticipate volunteering programme
• Competitive pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave per pro rata annum, plus bank holidays and 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year.
• 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need. We operate a hybrid working policy at CHP.
  
  

We value our people and listen to feedback to ensure we are a great place to work and are able to attract and develop the careers of the best talent in the market

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive.

We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

Our Values are important to us. You can read more about them below.