Head of Service Excellence and Compliance

Function: Development

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Salary: £67,460 - £84,325 (salary dependent on experience)

Salary: £28,897 to £36,121 per annum plus £2,272 car allowance (salary offered dependent on experience)

Salary: £37,681 to £47,101 per annum plus £2,329 car allowance (salary offered dependent on experience)

Salary: £16,468 - £20,585 per annum plus car allowance of £1,165 per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)

Closing Date: 19 September 2025

Head of Service Excellence and Compliance

Role Title: Head of Service Excellence and Compliance

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday–Friday

Salary: £67,460 - £84,325 (salary dependent on experience)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Dartford / Agile

Interviews will take place on Thursday 25 September

We’re looking for a dynamic and experienced Head of Service Excellence and Compliance to join our Customer and Neighbourhoods Directorate. This newly created role will put you at the heart of driving service improvement, strengthening compliance, and ensuring we deliver consistently excellent experiences for our customers.

Reporting to the Director of Customer & Insight, you’ll lead the development and delivery of a robust compliance and performance framework across the Directorate. By working closely with Heads of Service, managers and our Insight Specialists, you’ll turn data, audits and customer feedback into meaningful actions that drive accountability and continuous improvement.

This is a high-profile, influential role where you’ll be a trusted peer to senior colleagues – challenging, supporting, and inspiring them to deliver better outcomes for customers every day.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and embedding a performance framework that uses customer insight and data to improve services.
• Leading Directorate-level audits and self-assessments, ensuring risks and compliance gaps are well managed.
• Coordinating and drafting governance papers and reports for senior leadership and Board audiences.
• Driving forward action plans from Ombudsman case reviews, regulatory assessments, and audits.
• Delivering a training programme that strengthens compliance, accountability and service standards.
• Ensuring operational policies are regularly reviewed, updated and aligned to legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the development and delivery of the Housing and Customer Team Plan.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Strong background in compliance, performance or service excellence within a complex service environment (housing sector experience desirable).
• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders to drive improvement.
• Excellent report writing skills, with experience drafting governance papers for senior or board-level audiences.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and audit processes, with experience managing or coordinating audits.
• Ability to translate customer insight and data into practical service improvements.
• Experience in delivering or overseeing training programmes to support compliance and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Line management experience, with the ability to coach and develop others.
• A Level 4 housing qualification (or willingness to work towards this within 2 years).

We’re one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes across London, Kent, Essex, and Sussex. Our purpose is to open doors to better lives for our customers — and we know this begins with excellent complaint handling.

We’re proud to have been recognised as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, based on our own employees’ feedback. Join us and help shape a fairer, more transparent housing experience for all.

To apply, please complete our application form in full via our career's website (see link below). As we use anonymous recruitment and do not accept CVs, it’s really important that you provide as much detail as possible in your application. We’re keen to understand your interest in the role and how you meet the requirements, so please make full use of the spaces provided to tell us about your experience, skills, and what makes you a great fit for our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a role where you’ll make a real impact. For more information, please see here the full job description:

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Ready to make an impact?

If this sounds like the role for you, apply by16 September 2025 and be part of something bigger!

We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the advert before this date if we receive good interest. We're looking forward to reading your application!

If you require any additional adjustments to the recruitment process, please email peopleservices@moat.co.uk