Founder's Associate

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>HSPG is a social impact real estate company.</p> <p><strong>Our mission is simple:</strong> Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.<br><strong>North Star:</strong> creating over 5,000 homes by 2029.<br>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.<br><strong>North Star:</strong> creating homes for over 8,000 families or individuals by 2030.</p> <p>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.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Core behaviours</strong></p> <p><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://hspg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CB-HSPG.png" alt="Core behaviours"></p> <hr> <p><strong>Core Mission</strong></p> <p class="p1">Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow-up and exploratory work beneath&nbsp;current and future-facing ideas.</p> <p class="p1">You turn early-stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no-go conclusions, working with the internal teams,&nbsp;without slowing the wider business down.</p> <p class="p1">This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath.</p> <p class="p1">This is a high-trust, high-standards leverage role. Not a yes-person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier.</p> <p class="p1">Make it your mission to make it fun.</p> <hr> <p class="p1"><strong>Obsess</strong></p> <p class="p2">You obsess over:</p> <ul> <li class="p2">Clarity from ambiguity: turning half-formed ideas into structured&nbsp;thinking.</li> <li class="p2">High-leverage output: outcomes over activity.</li> <li class="p2">Relentless follow-up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting.</li> <li class="p2">Commercial, mission-driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality.</li> <li class="p2">Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and&nbsp;execution.</li> <li class="p2">If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Excel</strong></p> <p class="p1">You excel at:</p> <ul> <li class="p1">End-to-end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to&nbsp;final decision.</li> <li class="p1">BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary&nbsp;followed by relevant detail.</li> <li class="p1">Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging&nbsp;constructively.</li> <li class="p1">Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting&nbsp;or supervision.</li> </ul> <hr> <p class="p1"><strong>Accountability</strong></p> <p class="p1">You are accountable for:</p> <ul> <li class="p1">Early-stage research.</li> <li class="p1">Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow-through.</li> <li class="p1">Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external&nbsp;stakeholders.</li> <li class="p1">Owning CEO-adjacent project workstreams.</li> </ul> <p class="p1">You are not accountable for:</p> <ul> <li class="p1">Platform P&amp;L ownership.</li> <li class="p1">People management.</li> <li class="p1">Culture leadership.</li> <li class="p1">Brand or marketing direction.</li> <li class="p1">Operational process design across platforms.</li> </ul> <hr> <p class="p1"><strong>Specific experience</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p1">Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or&nbsp;similar high-intensity environments.</li> <li class="p1">Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers.</li> <li class="p1">Strong analytical and financial modelling capability welcomed, but not&nbsp;essential.</li> </ul> <hr> <p class="p1"><strong>Progression</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p1">This is a high-leverage launchpad role.</li> <li class="p1">There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate.</li> <li class="p1">If you crush this role, you will outgrow it.</li> <li class="p1">Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership.</li> <li class="p1">Progression is not time-based. It is impact-based.</li> <li class="p1">As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, wewill work with you to.</li> </ul> <hr> <p class="p1"><strong>90 day wins</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">Early traction and proof of control.</li> <li class="p2">CEO time is materially protected from research, admin and follow-up.</li> <li class="p2">100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked.</li> <li class="p2">At least one initiative delivered end-to-end without CEO&nbsp;involvement.</li> </ul> <p class="p1"><strong>12 month impact outcomes</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">Material impact and results within first 12 months.</li> <li class="p2">CEO consistently operating at strategy, capital and&nbsp;impact level.</li> <li class="p2">Clear track record of disciplined experimentation, ideas&nbsp;launched, tested, iterated or intentionally killed.</li> <li class="p2">Time from idea to model to decision materially reduced&nbsp;across projects (utilising skills internally).</li> <li class="p2">SLT confidence in leverage, reliability and execution&nbsp;speed materially increased.</li> <li class="p2">Demonstrable business impact directly accelerated by&nbsp;ownership and structured follow-through</li> </ul> <p>These outcomes are bonus-linked and reviewed monthly.</p> <hr> <p>&nbsp;</p>