Our work is driven by a passionate belief that our contribution as housing professionals is vital to making communities great places to live and work. Our unique position as the voice of the sector gives the people that work for us great opportunities to shape the future of housing. We’re looking for the best of the best to join us.
- Job title: National director, Scotland
- Band: 2
- Salary: £55,157 – £57,569
- Location: Hybrid – Edinburgh office / home working, with some travel
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Monday 3 November 2025 at midday
We’re looking for a new national director for Scotland to join us at a pivotal time for housing. If you’re passionate about leading change, influencing policy, and representing the housing profession at the highest levels, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
- Job title: Policy and public affairs manager - NI
- Band: 4
- Salary: £40,016 - £44,850
- Location: Hybrid – Home / CIH Belfast office
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Monday 3 November 2025 (noon)
We are seeking a policy and public affairs manager to join our high-profile team.
You will be instrumental in developing new thinking on housing policy, promoting good practice in service delivery, and ensuring our voice is heard across all levels of government and with key stakeholders.
- Job title: Press and communications officer (x2)
- Band: 5
- Salary: £34,608 - £38,304 (subject to experience)
- Location: Hybrid – Home/CIH office
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Monday 10 November 2025
We’re seeking people with an eye for detail and excellent writing skills, with the ability to generate relevant, timely and engaging content for a variety of external channels and audiences. You’ll understand the media landscape, news agendas and how to create content with an engaging hook.
- Job title: Engagement manager - Scotland
- Band: 5
- Salary: £34,608 to £39,690
- Location: Hybrid - Home/CIH office
- Hours: 35 hour per week
- Closing date: Friday 14 November 2025 at midday
If you’re looking for a varied and stimulating role where you can make a difference to people’s lives, then we have an exciting opportunity as we’re looking for a new colleague to join our fantastic member engagement team, supporting our work in Scotland
- Job title: External quality assurer
- Location: Home-based with occasional travel
- Closing date: 30 November 2025
This is a key role in the Chartered Institute of Housing's Awarding Organisation and a great opportunity for you to use your housing experience and knowledge to assess. A recognised Housing, or Housing-related qualification is essential along with an assessor’s qualification.
The successful applicant will be responsible for remote assessing against predetermined criteria to ascertain a final grade.
The commitment will vary, dependent upon the number of assessments allocated and will require attendance at a minimum of one training event per year. This is a home-based role which may require occasional travel.
Assessors work on a self-employed/freelance basis. Roles at CIH in this capacity do not constitute partnerships or contracts of employment.
To apply or for more information including job description, email: quality.assurance@cih.org.
Benefits that make a real difference
We want you to enjoy working at CIH, so it’s really important to us that we offer benefits that you value. Take a look below at some of the things you can take advantage of when you join us:*
- 25 days holiday, plus eight bank holidays as standard (pro-rated for part-time colleagues) plus, gifted days off over Christmas and New Year
- Flexible working to accommodate your work and personal commitments – we value outcomes and recognise that everyone has a unique working style
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Access to our employee assistance programme for life’s challenges
- Policies to support you with big life changes or difficult times, such as the menopause and caring responsibilities
- Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
- Private health care with the option to purchase for family members
- Generous sick pay allowance
- Financial support for eye test and help with the cost of glasses
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to CIH benefits, including our employee discount portal, Let’s Connect – tech scheme, and gym membership discounts
- Income protection scheme in case of extended period of illness
- Death in service benefit equivalent to three times your salary
- Helping you save for the future by contributing to a defined contribution pension scheme
- Access to Stream – a financial wellbeing platform to help you manage your wages.
- Full CIH membership – access all our member-exclusive content to build your housing knowledge
- A commitment to your professional development
- A flexible office space encouraging collaborative working.
We embrace hybrid working and encourage everyone in CIH to work from a location that suits them and our business needs.
No role is exclusively remote. Organisational cohesiveness is important to our overall performance; we value the benefits of coming together with colleagues to enable the cohesiveness of teams, departments, and collaborative working across CIH. This, and our operating model, means that there will be times when you are required to go to your local office, another CIH office, or another location such as a CIH event.
Your contracted office will usually be the CIH office that is the closest to where you live. CIH office locations can be found here – Contact details | Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
If you have any questions about our hybrid working policy or live more remotely, please contact us to ask how this would work in practice for the role you are applying for.
*Subject to availability in Republic of Ireland
