G7 West Midlands Area Lead
| Posting date: | 26 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £60,118 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 March 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 343075/1 |
Summary
The successful applicant of this role will also lead on business engagement and business intelligence for the division. This will include external engagement with key business and business representative organisations. You will also manage relationships with key partners within Government and gather and present intelligence to ensure maximum impact.
Area teams are experts on the places. We have a strong grasp of the facts and figures, but facts and figures don’t explain a place. We understand local individuals and institutions. We know how places feel. We know their history. We can tell stories about them and work with them to deliver change.
DBT, DLUHC and the centre of Government, rely on area teams to work with people and places across the UK to develop and deliver policies to deliver Ministers’ objectives. The teams are an integral part of the policy development and delivery mechanisms.
The Cities and Local Growth Unit represents the Government Local Growth and Levelling Up work across the whole of the UK focusing on relationships with local partners and delivery.
It is a joint Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) directorate formed of 5 area teams (North West; Yorkshire, Humber & North East; West Midlands & South West; East Midlands, East Anglia and OxCam; London & South East).
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Key responsibilities
As an Area Lead for the West Midlands Area Team and as the regional lead on business intelligence, you will:
- Lead Government’s relationships on local growth in your area, including collaborating on economic development plans in the area and supporting local authorities, universities, business groups and others in their interactions with central government.
- Represent CLGU at key regional business representative organisational events/meetings as well as with other businesses in the region.
- Produce high quality regional economic intelligence, ensuring impacts of energy costs, supply chain pressures and other high-level changes are understood and supporting the HMG response to local economic shocks.
- Use your relationships and influence with partners across Government to feed local knowledge into the design, appraisal, assessment, and decision-making process of policy and programmes design.
- You will lead and support Ministerial briefing on regional risks and opportunities and ensure a high-quality service on parliamentary business and ministerial visits.
- Assure delivery of government funded growth projects by local partners through performance management reviews on a regular basis for the larger or more complex local authorities in your area.
- Deputise for and support G5s and / or G6s in their responsibilities as appropriate.
- The role may require a specific geographical area focus in the future and therefore some flexibility is required.
- The role may involve some line management.