3 Month Contract With A Local Authority

Job Purpose

• Serve as the Council’s strategic lead and expert on economic growth and regeneration, providing high-level leadership and coordination of both strategic and operational approaches to drive sustainable economic development across the Borough. Act as a key place-shaper by bringing together internal teams and a wide range of external stakeholders from the public and private sectors to align efforts and maximise impact.
  
• Lead the design and delivery of major economic growth and regeneration programmes and projects through strong, collaborative partnerships. Engage at a senior level locally, regionally, and nationally to influence policy, secure investment, and capitalise on new opportunities. Adopt an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking approach to stimulate economic activity, attract inward investment, and support long-term prosperity for businesses, communities, and residents.
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• Act as principal professional adviser to the Council in specific matters relating to economic growth and strategic regeneration
  
• Represent the Council at area, regional and national level and provides strategic insight, advice, and challenge to colleagues and external partners.
  
• Act, with the review of the Service Director, in the development of the service’s mission, vision, values and long term strategic planning and policies contributing to the delivery of an inclusive Economy.
  
• Promoting regeneration, enhancing sustainable economic development and jobs growth across Luton ensuring our residents, business and communities have access to the opportunities and reducing socio-economic and spatial disparity across the town
  
• Lead on the strategic development and delivery of the Inclusive Economy Strategy and supporting plans
  
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with partners and engage with them to successfully achieve joint deliverables, access funding streams, and exploit opportunities to create economic growth and deliver strategic regeneration across the Borough.
  
• Leads and drive the delivery of the Luton Town Centre Master Plan and detailed action plan through working in partnership and developing business cases and programme/project plans as required.
  
• Actively engage with internal and external stakeholders to put in bids for funding to maximise funding available to the Council in order to promote economic growth and regeneration that will have a major impact on the Borough and its citizens.
  
• Ensure the successful implementation within budget and agreed timescale of projects comprised within successful bids for funding, which could be multi million pound projects requiring compliant procurement processes, good project management and sound budget management.
  
• Develop and implement performance management frameworks to monitor the success of economic growth and strategic regeneration outcomes against corporate strategies, and take action where shortfalls are identified.
  
• Manage organisational talent by leading and inspiring individuals, ensuring that effective succession planning exists and building robust and measurable capacity throughout the teams you are responsible for.
  
• To commission and procure specialist expert advice, studies and reports as appropriate.
  

Essential Experience Required

• The successful leadership of strategic regeneration and / or economic growth.
  
• The successful securing of significant grant funding from Central Government agencies or similar.
  
• Substantial experience of effective working with a range of stakeholders from the community, government and business
  
• Substantial management, supervision and leadership skills to lead and manage the Economic Growth and Regeneration Function.
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• ​A relevant technical/professional qualification or equivalent recent, verifiable experience.