Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
About Ealing
Ealing is a world class borough within a world class city. On the doorstep of Heathrow, home to the UK’s largest regeneration programme at Old Oak and Park Royal and hosting five new Elizabeth Line stations, the borough has unrivalled connectivity. This means the borough has huge potential for good growth, job creation, and investment at a scale of regional and national significance. Ealing’s seven towns, each with their own unique identity, support a genuine community-led approach to regeneration, and accommodating London’s largest reservoir of industrial land puts Ealing at the forefront of growing and attracting multiple high growth sectors to help transform West London’s economy and create tens of thousands of new jobs. This combined with award winning parks linked by the Grand Union canal network, and one of the country’s most diverse and skilled populations, makes Ealing a great place to work, live and play.
About the post and you
This is a newly created post within a new cross-cutting Economy & Sustainability Directorate under fresh and ambitious leadership. You would have an excellent opportunity to expand and consolidate your career by operating across an extensive peer group and diverse range of services within a newly created Regeneration, Economy & Skills department. This post in particular offers you the opportunity to build and coordinate a programme of community-led regeneration, to support growth of the local economy, deliver jobs and drive ambitious change for Ealing’s seven unique towns to deliver on the Council’s priorities. You will develop, commission, manage, deliver and evaluate multiple projects within jobs-led regeneration and economic development programmes in one or more of Ealing’s seven towns The role will deliver business growth and inward investment programmes that have enabled innovation, diversification and growth of a local economy and to help unlock 20,000 new homes, 4,000 genuinely affordable homes and 10,000 new well-waged jobs. Your work will involve bringing forward strategic sites with partner organisations, high-value and complex master-planning, catalysing meanwhile uses, identifying and intensifying employment opportunities through high street programming and diversification of the borough’s commercial and industrial offer.
Your work with council teams, community partners and strategic organisations will be key to developing and progressing innovative and forward-thinking projects within Ealing. As such, you will be proactive and adept at collaborative working and take an inclusive approach to engaging partners, businesses, stakeholders and Ealing’s diverse local community.
Does this ambitious forward-thinking approach to regeneration in the borough appeal to you? Contact us to find out more.
How to apply
This role is deemed customer facing and as such you must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable you to effectively perform the role. This requirement relates to Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.
To apply, please provide a personal statement outlining how you meet the requirements of the personal specification in the role profile. This should be no longer than 1,000 words.
This role is subject to Ealing’s enhanced vetting process.
Ealing Council employees will be offered a secondment, external candidates will be offered a fixed term contract. Ealing employees please ensure the secondment release form is signed by your line manager prior to applying. Please return your completed form to: hrssc-recruitmentteam@ealing.gov.uk
Applicants who applied before do not need to apply again.
To discuss the role please contact Mandar Puranik (Head of Regeneration, Investment and Jobs) puranikm@ealing.gov.uk.
Should an interview be necessary, this will occur during the week commencing 13 May 2024.
Ealing E&S Directorate Recruitment Brochure
