Customer Engagement Officer (North / East)
Employer: Stonewater
Location: This role is home based, but you’ll need to live in the North / East and be happy to travel across the region to connect with customers and communities in that particular locality.
Working hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Salary: £32,300
Closing date: 06 May, 2026
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Home Based, covering the North & East
It matters. So we’re bringing it closer to home.
Our customers have told us they want us to understand their needs at a local level, and to be more visible in the communities we serve. We’ve listened.
That’s why we’re creating new roles, strengthening our local presence, and looking for people who want to be part of what comes next.
We need a Customer Engagement Officer who is motivated by real community impact - someone who doesn’t just gather feedback, but turns it into meaningful change for customers and neighbourhoods.
This is your opportunity to work at the heart of our communities: building trusted relationships, amplifying customer voices, and helping shape the services we deliver every day.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll play a key role in making sure our customers feel heard, valued and able to influence decisions that affect the services we provide, their homes and communities.
In this role, you will:
Deliver a wide range of engagement activities - from community events and workshops to digital and survey-based insight
Build strong, trusted relationships with residents, including those from underrepresented or harder-to-reach groups
Turn customer feedback into clear, actionable insight that drives service improvements
Support colleagues across the organisation to engage effectively and confidently with customers
Coordinate and support customer panels, forums and scrutiny groups
Capture, analyse and share feedback to influence decision-making at all levels
Promote engagement opportunities using a variety of channels to maximise reach and inclusion
Work collaboratively across teams to ensure customer voice leads to real, visible change
Represent Stonewater within local communities, partnerships and events
Ensure all engagement activity is inclusive, accessible and aligned with regulatory expectations
What you’ll bring
You’re someone who connects easily with people and genuinely cares about making a difference.
We’re looking for:
Experience in customer engagement, community work, or customer service
Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of audiences
A natural ability to build trust and rapport with customers and community groups
Good organisational skills and attention to detail
An understanding of housing services or a strong willingness to learn
A clear commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Confidence working independently while staying connected to a wider team
IT confidence, including using digital tools to support engagement
Job Description - Customer Engagement Officer
Location and flexibility
This role is home based, but you’ll need to live in the North / East and be happy to travel across the region to connect with customers and communities in that particular locality.
Why join us?
At Stonewater, our customer promise is “We are proud to make things personal; if it matters to our customers, it matters to us.”
This is a chance to help shape services that truly reflect what customers need. If you’re motivated by customer impact and want to be part of an organisation that is committed to listening and improving, we’d love to hear from you.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory references, a satisfactory DBS and possession of a valid Right to Work document.
Discover Stonewater:
Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.
Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater?
Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
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