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Local Growth Policy Advisor – West Yorkshire Jobs in Leeds, England, United Kingdom at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Title: Local Growth Policy Advisor – West Yorkshire
Company: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
LocationLeeds
About The JobJob summaryLocal Growth Policy Advisor – West Yorkshire The Cities and Local Growth Unit (CLGU) is a joint unit between the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
We support economic development, regeneration, and growth in places across the UK, but especially in places where there is a disparity against higher performing areas(sometimes referred to as ‘left behind places’). We support the delivery of initiatives including: support for towns and high streets, levelling up and community renewal funding and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; devolution of powers and funding to Mayors; and responses to economic shocks.
Job DescriptionAs Local Growth Policy Advisor for West Yorkshire you will become, in time, an expert on economic growth in your local area and utilise in-depth knowledge of the area’s politics, economy, challenges and opportunities.
You will build and hold strong and productive working level relationships in your area, including with Local Authority economic development officers, on occasion Chief Executives and senior Directors, HE/FE and other institutions, local government associations, local business organisations and others.
You will use your detailed local knowledge to lead on high quality briefing material tailored for the audience (usually Ministers and Senior Civil Servants), and promoting, arranging, and supporting Ministerial and other visits and wider Parliamentary and Departmental business.
You will also effectively manage team information and data in order to produce regular or urgent reports on your local economies, developing an up-to-date and robust understanding of economic trends and their impact on their area; and will work with other teams to produce analysis of these reports and recommendations for action if necessary.
Our team:Yorkshire is such a diverse region: big cities, historic towns, three national parks – and also towns that grew up around single industries, now looking for better days. But in this diversity is unity: no other region has such a strong sense of identity. This sense of shared commitment is evident in our team, which mixes people who have lived all their lives here with others who have moved to make their homes in Yorkshire, or nearby.
Recent successes such as the attraction of Channel 4 to Leeds and the investment by Siemens Gamesa in the offshore wind blade factory in Hull show what is possible. We are now working closely with the elected metro mayors in the big urban areas of West and South Yorkshire and progressing mayoral devolution to other parts of Yorkshire.
We are also working with local authorities to ensure the success of approximately £1.6 billion of ‘levelling up’ investment into projects across the region, including sixteen Town Deals, half of which are in West Yorkshire including Dewsbury, Keighley and Wakefield. In addition, we are also working across other government departments to progress large scale regeneration initiatives such as housing led regeneration in Sheffield and Leeds, along with a much-needed Mass Transit System for West Yorkshire.
On a day-to-day basis, we work to make life better in Yorkshire, supporting ideas generated by our partners. We hope you’ll want to join us. This post will be anchored in our Leeds office, but with options to work in other locations – and time spent out and about …
