About this role
HSPG is a social impact real estate company.
Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.
There is a critical shortage of affordable housing across the UK. We partner with Local Authorities and institutional investors to acquire and manage high-quality, demand-driven homes across multiple tenures.
Across our Living Sector platforms, we are on track to acquire 12,000 homes by 2030. These homes are grouped into portfolios, professionally managed by our team, and funded by long-term institutional capital. We deliver this through two specialist operating platforms: Seahorse and PPHA.
Seahorse acquires, develops and manages homes for homeless residents across England through its Homeless Affordable Rent product, meeting urgent housing need with professionally managed, high-quality accommodation.
North Star: creating over 5,000 homes by 2029.
PPHA, the Group’s Registered Provider, partners with local authorities, housebuilders and investors to deliver Section 106 and grant-funded Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership homes, expanding supply and creating lasting social value.
North Star: creating homes for over 8,000 families or individuals by 2030.
Together, these platforms enable HSPG to meet housing need at scale, creating meaningful social impact for customers and residents, while delivering sustainable, long-term returns for our partners.
Core behaviours
Core Mission
Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow-up and exploratory work beneath current and future-facing ideas.
You turn early-stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no-go conclusions, working with the internal teams, without slowing the wider business down.
This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath.
This is a high-trust, high-standards leverage role. Not a yes-person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier.
Make it your mission to make it fun.
Obsess
You obsess over:
• Clarity from ambiguity: turning half-formed ideas into structured thinking.
• High-leverage output: outcomes over activity.
• Relentless follow-up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting.
• Commercial, mission-driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality.
• Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and execution.
• If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you.
Excel
You excel at:
• End-to-end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to final decision.
• BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary followed by relevant detail.
• Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging constructively.
• Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting or supervision.
Accountability
You are accountable for:
• Early-stage research.
• Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow-through.
• Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external stakeholders.
• Owning CEO-adjacent project workstreams.
You are not accountable for:
• Platform P&L ownership.
• People management.
• Culture leadership.
• Brand or marketing direction.
• Operational process design across platforms.
Specific experience
• Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar high-intensity environments.
• Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability welcomed, but not essential.
Progression
• This is a high-leverage launchpad role.
• There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate.
• If you crush this role, you will outgrow it.
• Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership.
• Progression is not time-based. It is impact-based.
• As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, wewill work with you to.
90 day wins
• Early traction and proof of control.
• CEO time is materially protected from research, admin and follow-up.
• 100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked.
• At least one initiative delivered end-to-end without CEO involvement.
12 month impact outcomes
• Material impact and results within first 12 months.
• CEO consistently operating at strategy, capital and impact level.
• Clear track record of disciplined experimentation, ideas launched, tested, iterated or intentionally killed.
• Time from idea to model to decision materially reduced across projects (utilising skills internally).
• SLT confidence in leverage, reliability and execution speed materially increased.
• Demonstrable business impact directly accelerated by ownership and structured follow-through
These outcomes are bonus-linked and reviewed monthly.
Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.
There is a critical shortage of affordable housing across the UK. We partner with Local Authorities and institutional investors to acquire and manage high-quality, demand-driven homes across multiple tenures.
Across our Living Sector platforms, we are on track to acquire 12,000 homes by 2030. These homes are grouped into portfolios, professionally managed by our team, and funded by long-term institutional capital. We deliver this through two specialist operating platforms: Seahorse and PPHA.
Seahorse acquires, develops and manages homes for homeless residents across England through its Homeless Affordable Rent product, meeting urgent housing need with professionally managed, high-quality accommodation.
North Star: creating over 5,000 homes by 2029.
PPHA, the Group’s Registered Provider, partners with local authorities, housebuilders and investors to deliver Section 106 and grant-funded Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership homes, expanding supply and creating lasting social value.
North Star: creating homes for over 8,000 families or individuals by 2030.
Together, these platforms enable HSPG to meet housing need at scale, creating meaningful social impact for customers and residents, while delivering sustainable, long-term returns for our partners.
Core behaviours
Core Mission
Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow-up and exploratory work beneath current and future-facing ideas.
You turn early-stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no-go conclusions, working with the internal teams, without slowing the wider business down.
This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath.
This is a high-trust, high-standards leverage role. Not a yes-person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier.
Make it your mission to make it fun.
Obsess
You obsess over:
• Clarity from ambiguity: turning half-formed ideas into structured thinking.
• High-leverage output: outcomes over activity.
• Relentless follow-up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting.
• Commercial, mission-driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality.
• Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and execution.
• If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you.
Excel
You excel at:
• End-to-end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to final decision.
• BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary followed by relevant detail.
• Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging constructively.
• Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting or supervision.
Accountability
You are accountable for:
• Early-stage research.
• Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow-through.
• Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external stakeholders.
• Owning CEO-adjacent project workstreams.
You are not accountable for:
• Platform P&L ownership.
• People management.
• Culture leadership.
• Brand or marketing direction.
• Operational process design across platforms.
Specific experience
• Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar high-intensity environments.
• Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability welcomed, but not essential.
Progression
• This is a high-leverage launchpad role.
• There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate.
• If you crush this role, you will outgrow it.
• Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership.
• Progression is not time-based. It is impact-based.
• As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, wewill work with you to.
90 day wins
• Early traction and proof of control.
• CEO time is materially protected from research, admin and follow-up.
• 100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked.
• At least one initiative delivered end-to-end without CEO involvement.
12 month impact outcomes
• Material impact and results within first 12 months.
• CEO consistently operating at strategy, capital and impact level.
• Clear track record of disciplined experimentation, ideas launched, tested, iterated or intentionally killed.
• Time from idea to model to decision materially reduced across projects (utilising skills internally).
• SLT confidence in leverage, reliability and execution speed materially increased.
• Demonstrable business impact directly accelerated by ownership and structured follow-through
These outcomes are bonus-linked and reviewed monthly.
About HSPG
HSPG is hiring for the founder's associate role. NewJob aggregates active openings directly from HSPG's applicant tracking system, so this listing is current.
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