New Business Development Officer

Job Title: New Business Development Officer  

Location: Hybrid

Hours: 12-month FTC, full time hours

Salary: £38,000 plus car allowance at £5,800

**You will need to have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business as you will be required to travel to meetings, marketing events in other locations, with occasional overnight stays**

About the role

We are the UK’s largest provider of older persons housing and care, operating across 1,700 locations, with over 10,000 colleagues and a turnover of £550m. It’s not just impressive, it’s making a difference.

The purpose of this role it to support the Head of New Business and Land Managers to secure sites and planning permissions including report writing, bid writing and presentations

You will be managing the ‘Key Facts’ process that looks at the scheme to be handed over into construction and commissioning and makes sure the relevant and right information is available and the process is followed

You will ensure files on SharePoint or other shared files are up to date and accessible to others

You will lead on developing promotional events promote Anchor Hanover

You will support all marketing activity for new business which includes social media presence, marketing events, and developing promotional material for events

You will be liaising with external parties to promote our growth plan and keeping them up to date on site finding, progress, results

Managing the internal and external social media profile for new developments to promote our #lovelaterliving wider

Using bespoke and off the shelf software that supports our growth ambition and leading on market testing and monitoring of these packages

Fielding land enquiries to appropriate colleagues

Support the wider marketing of our ambitions to external stakeholders including agents, developers, local authorities etc

About you

You will:

• Have strong organisational skills and the ability to plan ahead
• Be willing to work flexibly to meet business needs and undertake regular travel where necessary.
• Be able to work on own initiative, being resourceful, achieving deadlines.
• Be resilient and able to work well under pressure
• Manage time effectively and work within agreed timeframes
• Be able to identify priorities and unresolved issues and items where it is appropriate to escalate to senior development team
• Need the ability to project plan and identify interrelationships across complex projects, within agreed project management and governance structures.
• Need the ability to identify issues which have arisen or may arise in the future and to resolve in collaboration with others
• Be able to manage complex or difficult situations with sensitivity and objectivity, seeking support from senior development leadership team where appropriate
• Be able to challenge constructively at all levels to ensure the best outcome for the customer
• Carefully seeks and considers advice from appropriate teams across the organisation and externally
• Be able to make sound judgements, to give advice to others and be accountable for that advice, within relevant authority level, seeking support where necessary.
• Be proactive and independent, capable of making decisions quickly if required
• Liaise with the development and finance teams and as the need arises

Hundreds of talented professionals with a range of specialist skills and experience based in our Bradford and London offices make up our Support Services. While we all do very different things, we work towards the same goal of improving the lives of the older people who live with us. 

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to have an LGBT+ resident group, and also BAME, LGBT+ and Disabled colleague networks. These work closely with the organisation to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We recruit, train and promote without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or other protected status. One of our values is ‘respect’, therefore we do not accept harassment or discrimination from any colleague, resident or third party.

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

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 rewards website  

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 member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.