Chloe Stothart looks at this week’s movers and shakers
Arawak Walton HA
Winsome Brown becomes chair of the Arawak Walton Housing Association; Andy Forbes takes her place as deputy chair.

Sharon Allen
St Anne’s Shelter and Housing Action has promoted its operations director Sharon Allen to chief executive. A former social worker, Allen’s previous employment includes Shelter’s director of national services and initiatives, Women’s Aid, the Blenheim Project in Bradford.

Tracey Liggett
Tracey Liggett has become assistant director of finance at Knowsley Housing Trust. She was previously financial controller at Constance Carroll Cosmetics. She has also worked for the NHS and John Moores University.

Brian Golton
Brian Golton is Moat Housing Group’s new head of technical services. He joins from Countrywide Surveyors and has previously worked for housing associations in Wales and the West.

Signpost HA
Caren Welsh and Lucille Brown have joined Signpost Housing Association as housing officers. Welsh previously worked for Purbeck council as a tenant services officer and Brown worked for East Thames Housing Association.

Gary Orr
Raglan Housing Association has promoted Gary Orr to area director for the South-east. He was the association’s southern area housing manager for two years.

Job of the week

Name
James Hernandez
Job
Arts and cultural development manager, Novas-Ouvertures Group
Job specification
To identify and support opportunities for arts and cultural development and new arts initiatives on behalf of member organisations.
Old job
Coordinator for the Widening Participation Team at the University of Liverpool
Favourite films
“Training Day, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Seven Samurai, Pulp Fiction”
Hobbies
“Cooking, wine-tasting – many years ago I used to be a manager for Oddbins, the off-licence chain – travelling, driving cars and riding motorbikes.”
What do you enjoy about working in arts development for a housing provider?
“The arts and cultural programme brings together people and communities; it brings employment, job training and renewed hope to hundreds of men, women and children.”
Dream job
“Some sort of community crisis manager in the Caribbean for one of the teams that go in after floods, fires and other natural disasters and help to rebuild the community.”
What did you want to be when you were a child?
“A garbage collector, so my mum couldn’t shout at me when I got dirty.”

Source

Housing Today