Senior Inclusive Growth Manager

Senior Inclusive Growth Manager

Reference : 2009

Salary : £67,715 per annum

Contract type : Permanent

The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) is a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC), established by the Mayor of London to bring forward the regeneration of the Old Oak Opportunity area, spanning land in three London boroughs – Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham.

The Old Oak and Park Royal Opportunity Area is one of the most exciting and important regeneration opportunities in the UK – aiming to create an accessible, welcoming and well-connected urban district, centred around the new High Speed 2 station at Old Oak Common, with tens of thousands of new high-quality and affordable homes; good quality, well-paid jobs and shops; facilities, sustainable travel connections and public green space.

Delivery Directorate

Responsible for driving the physical, economic, and social regeneration of the Old Oak and Park Royal areas. This includes overseeing land assembly, infrastructure development, and the implementation of regeneration and inclusive growth strategies.

The directorate aims to create a successful and sustainable development in Old Oak and Park Royal with maximum benefits for local communities, businesses and wider London areas.

About the team

The OPDC’s Inclusive Growth team sits within the Delivery Directorate and is tasked with ensuring that the investment and growth in and around Old Oak and Park Royal – through the OPDC’s activities, development programme and role as Local Planning Authority - brings real and tangible benefits for local residents and businesses. Its wide-ranging activities focus on key areas of OPDC’s work including:

Developing strategic and innovative approaches to addressing key skills gaps in key economic growth sectors.

Being at the forefront of delivering Mayoral, West London and local borough economic development policy and delivery.

Developing pathways through training and into varied, exciting and rewarding careers in key economic growth sectors.

Supporting local businesses start up, grow and thrive.

Working to raise aspirations and improve life chances for local people.

Delivering our core commitments to diversity, inclusion, fairness and equity across everything we do.

About the role

As the Senior Inclusive Growth Manager, you will oversee the development and delivery of a suite of high-profile programmes, projects and partnerships that deliver key OPDC Inclusive Growth priorities from skills and business support through to education initiatives.

The role requires experience of developing strategic responses to delivering Inclusive Growth priorities, with a strong understanding and appreciation of relevant regional, sub-regional and local policy frameworks.

You will work with the Head of Inclusive Growth to develop, lead and manage partnerships of multiple stakeholders around shared goals and the commissioning and managing of delivery partners to achieve social, economic and education growth benefits. With an eye for innovation in economic development delivery, this role will have line management experience and will need to understand how to ensure teams measure and report impacts and capture benefit delivery.

The role will work in the Inclusive Growth team but will need to be adept at internal and external engagement with colleagues, partners and stakeholders. You will be required to ensure project and programme compliance, outcome mapping, financial outputs, progress against KPIs, deliverables, risk analysis as well as remediation plan development, implementation and evaluation.

You will be passionately committed to ensuring that the Inclusive Growth programme maximises fairness and equity, delivering benefits to, particularly, groups that are traditionally under-represented.

What your day will look like

You will work closely with key external partners to ensure the development and delivery of a robust suite of Inclusive Growth projects and programmes across a variety of economic growth sectors.

You will attend key fora, steering groups, boards and other external meetings that ensure the OPDC’s programme’s profile is raised and that it contributes to relevant groups and policy frameworks across West London and beyond.

You will liaise closely with local businesses, developers, contractors and employers in their widest sense to understand the sectoral short-, medium- and long-term skills challenges they face and develop responses accordingly.

You will oversee delivery partners to determine progress against stated project objectives ensuring initiatives run to programme and on budget.

You will support the delivery of wider social value objectives through directly commissioned works and services on behalf of OPDC.

Skills, knowledge and experience

To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:

Demonstrable extensive experience of successfully leading the development and delivery of social, economic and education projects linked to an integrated urban regeneration programme.

Up-to-date knowledge of relevant national, regional, sub regional and local policies in education, employment, skills training and enterprise delivery with evidence of having achieved successful relevant delivery examples.

Broad experience of working with and influencing both internal and external partners and an understanding of the challenges of achieving outcomes within a complex partnership environment.

Demonstrable track record of working successfully with partners to develop best practice in education, employment, skills training and enterprise delivery.

Sound management and administration of the programme, including quality assurance of the programme’s delivery partner activity.

An ability to develop innovative solutions when delivering inclusive growth-related programmes.

OPDC follows the GLA Competency Framework Guidelines. Further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework

Equity, diversity and inclusion

London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.

Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview. Please note, should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible. Please contact the recruitment team for further information if required.

Benefits

OPDC staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.

In addition to a good salary package, you will be paid every four weeks, providing frequent salary payments. We also offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme with the option to add to build up pension benefits with a separate provider alongside your LGPS pension via additional voluntary contributions.

Application closing date : Sunday, 24 August 2025 - 23:59.

Interview date : w/c 8 September 2025 (may be subject to change).