Portfolio Options Assessor

Portfolio Options Assessor

Location: Ealing (Hybrid working, with some office attendance required)

Day Rate: £Competitive (Outside IR35)

Contract: Interim (12 months)

Use data and insight to shape the future of our homes

Are you analytically minded with a passion for property, data, and strategic decision-making? Do you want to play a key role in shaping how housing assets are managed, improved, and invested in?

We’re looking for a Portfolio Options Assessor to join our Asset Strategy team. In this role, you’ll play a key role in supporting our Business Simplification Programme helping the organisation refocus on its core purpose and charitable objectives, while balancing long-term financial sustainability with the delivery of meaningful social value. You’ll, evaluate the performance of our housing portfolio, providing robust, data-driven insights to inform key decisions around investment, reinvestment, redevelopment, and disposals.

Working closely with colleagues across Finance, Development and Property Services, you’ll help ensure our homes remain sustainable, high-performing, and aligned with our long-term strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct detailed property performance assessments, including financial modelling and data analysis
• Undertake options appraisals for individual properties and portfolios, considering financial return, sustainability, and resident impact
• Analyse data from multiple sources, including internal systems and external market intelligence
• Support the development and ongoing improvement of the Asset Appraisal Model (AAM)
• Prepare clear, concise reports on asset performance and recommendations for intervention
• Work closely with internal teams including Finance, Development, and Property Services to align asset strategies with wider business objectives
• Support governance processes for disposals, reinvestment, and investment decisions
• Manage stakeholder expectations, ensuring clarity, transparency, and alignment
• Attend key meetings and workshops, contributing to programme delivery

More about you:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in asset management, real estate, housing, or a related field
• Membership (or working towards) a professional body such as RICS, CIOB, or CIH
• Experience analysing property performance, financial modelling, or asset data
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets and identify trends
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence using data analysis tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly
• Understanding of Value for Money principles within regulated sectors, ideally including familiarity with the housing sector’s VFM Standard and Code of Practice.
• Knowledge of social housing, asset management principles, and relevant regulations
• Understanding of sustainability and building safety considerations (desirable)

About us

At A2Dominion, we’re more than a housing provider. We’re a not-for-profit organisation with a clear social purpose: to create homes and communities people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes across London and the South East, we reinvest our profits into building more affordable homes and delivering services that make a real difference. We’re a G15 housing association with a strong social purpose

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include.

- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service

- Up to 8% contributory pension

- Flexible working

- In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

Inclusion at A2Dominion

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement.

If that’s you, we’d still encourage you to apply - or get in touch with us to talk it through.

At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

This vacancy is being managed by Danny Banks - danny.banks@a2dominion.co.uk