The Regulator of Social Housing has announced that it is on the hunt for a new Chair.

The vacancy closes on 18 October and the organisation is seeking those “with a wide range of skills and backgrounds and experience leading an organisation through significant change”.

On the role, the Regulator says: “The role will require ensuring that the organisation continues to deliver in these more challenging times, and that going forward it can respond and evolve to delivering a more consumer-focused regulatory regime involving a significant change in the size and role of the organisation.”

In further information on the role, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities say: “This Government is committed to improving the lived experience of social housing tenants. The Charter for Social Housing Residents: Social Housing White Paper recognised the role RSH plays in protecting and empowering social housing tenants through a robust regulatory framework, and committed to strengthen that further.

“RSH will therefore have a key role to play in delivering the reforms set out in the White Paper in what will be an exciting and challenging time to join the organisation.

“RSH is one of DLUHC’s key arm’s length bodies, ensuring that providers are well-run, financially sound, and able to deliver the homes that are needed, as well as ensuring that existing tenants have landlords that provide homes that are safe and deliver a good service.

“Ensuring the financial stability of the sector and overseeing the response of landlords will continue to be crucial for RSH. As an economic regulator overseeing a sector with access to over £100bn of private finance, regulation and understanding of the sector are key in maintaining market confidence and spotting financial issues before they arise.”

You can see the full vacancy here.