Douglas Robin

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Background

Douglas Robin served as a Chief Officer in Local Government with over thirty years of experience and a number of roles at a senior level. Until October, 2006, Douglas was the Stock Transfer Implementation Manager at Inverclyde Council leading up to the positive tenant vote for transfer

 

Throughout his career he has developed and managed housing services, building services, benefit services, supporting people services and managing a commercial portfolio of shops and industrial properties. He is literate, has an analytical mind with a clear and concise written style, whatever the audience.  Douglas is used to working to deadlines set in mutually agreed project plans and sets a high standard in his own work.

 

Douglas is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing

 

Experience

In the recent past, Douglas has had direct experience of the New Housing Partnership programme and worked on a Council-sponsored Registered Social Landlord ("RSL") project with a view to transferring the council's entire housing stock to an independent RSL. This involved:

 

bulletmaking the strategic case for transfer
bulletpreparing the project plan
bulletestablishing the shadow organisation
bulletadvising the council on stock transfer
bulletconducting a ‘tenants preference survey’

 

Douglas led the Council side in taking forward stock transfer under the Community Programme.  This involved:

bulletestablishing the stock transfer framework
bulletdevising the COP submission, including the application for EAF funding
bulletcommissioning stock condition and other surveys
bulletsecuring professional assistance, e.g. legal services
bulletcompleting the COP pricing model
bulletensuring tenant capacity, including appointment if the ITA
bulletadvising the Council and parent committee on matters of stock transfer
bulletpreparing the business case for transfer
bulletbusiness plan appraisal
bullettenant consultation
bulletTUPE consultation
bulletStage 1 and Stage 2 Notices.

 

Douglas is knowledgeable and has experience of:

bulletEuropean Procurement rules
bulletCommunities Scotland COP Guidance
bulletTUPE Regulations
bulletPerformance Assessment Frameworks
bulletProject Management

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