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Job title: Economic Development Team
Manager
Directorate: Places
Post number: PLRE2100
Division: Planning & Regeneration
Grade: 10
Section/team: Economic Growth
Overall purpose of job:
To drive transformational economic change and to lead and implement economic
development and regeneration initiatives, programmes and strategy to deliver a thriving
and prosperous North Lincolnshire.
Post holders will be expected to be flexible in undertaking the duties and responsibilities attached
to their post and may be asked to perform other duties, which reasonably correspond to the
general character of the post and are commensurate with its level of responsibility.
Main responsibilities:
1. To work with businesses and investors to create a world class and thriving economy
for North Lincolnshire and develop the area a Global gateway for business.
2. To prepare and implement a regeneration and economic development strategy to
meet the council’s corporate plans.
3. To advise and provide guidance to the council on all economic and regeneration policy
and matters.
4. To lead and direct development projects and initiatives to deliver economic
development and regeneration.
5. To lead and represent the council on all economic policy with regional and subregional partners, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Government Office Departments,
private investors and developers.
6. To represent the council and maximise opportunities to work jointly with partners to
deliver major programmes to support social enterprises and to develop skills
strategies.
7. To develop and strengthen the council’s economic position within the region and subregion and to ensure that North Lincolnshire’s interests are represented within the
Regional Economic Strategy and city region/sub regional programmes and processes.
8. To raise the profile of North Lincolnshire in European, national and regional forums to
secure long term inward investment benefit.
9. To lead and direct the work of the Planning and Regeneration Service and to meet
corporate strategies and targets within defined budgets.
10. To work with partners and agencies to deliver a skilled and responsive workforce.
11. To develop and assist the growth of social enterprises and the third sector in North
Lincolnshire.
12. To provide support and assistance to under-performing business and lead with
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partners in responding to businesses closures.
13. To project manage large-scale development projects.
14. To develop Scunthorpe as a sub-regional shopping centre and to enhance retail offer
in North Lincolnshire’s market towns.
15. To work in partnership to develop the tourism economy of North Lincolnshire.
16 To work with local business to develop long-term economic sustainable strategies.
Knowledge, skill and experience:
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Educated to degree level or equivalent.
Evidence of continued professional development.
Management, postgraduate, or relevant professional experience.
Political sensitivity, understanding and awareness.
Strong business acumen and sound market and commercial awareness.
Ability to create transformational economic change.
Sound understanding of national economic development and regeneration, housing
and planning priorities and legislation and the performance and standards and
inspection criteria.
Influence and create effective relationships with national and regional government,
major developers, investors, stakeholders, institutions, private investors, social
enterprises and academic institutions.
Management and Leadership skills.
Experience of negotiation and influencing individuals and groups.
Knowledge and awareness of Government organisations and institutions European,
national and regional economic strategy, policy and funding initiatives.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience of collecting, analysing and interpreting complex data to make medium
and long term decisions.
Strategic planning and delivery.
Creativity and innovation:
The post requires the ability to develop innovative and creative strategies and programmes
to attract inward investment from the public and private sectors and to create the
strategies, programmes and polices capable of transforming the economy and developing
new business growth.
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Ability to interpret long-term economic trends and to develop strategies and
programmes to deliver social and economic projects to transform the economy of
North Lincolnshire.
Knowledge and expertise in intervening in European, national and local government
projects and initiatives to benefit the economy of North Lincolnshire.
Vision to interpret and develop development projects from emerging funding and
policy initiatives from a range of funding organisations.
Develop innovative strategies and solutions to complex business and development
issues.
To assist locals businesses develop programmes and innovative solutions to create
more competitive outcomes.
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Ability to develop and align economic and regeneration projects to changing market
trends and business realities.
To adapt and create policies and programmes to meet long term growth and
business sector forecasts for the benefit of the North Lincolnshire Economy.
Contacts and relationships:
The post holder will be required to advise and brief the council leadership on all economic
development matters and regeneration issues and also provide regular briefings and
information to a range of business leaders, developers and elected bodies and public/
private partnerships. Regular and immediate responses to economic development
proposals and regeneration initiatives will demand frequent liaison and engagement with:
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Leaders, Chief Executives, Chief Officers and Directors, Cabinet Members of the
council and other public and private service provision within the council, Yorkshire and
Humber Regional Bodies, the City Region/Humber Sub-Region
Business Organisations
Skills and Training Agencies
Local Enterprise Partnerships
Business leaders
MP’s
MEP’s
Local and national media
Residents and communities across the North Lincolnshire area
Chief Executives and Directors of Local Industry
Chief Executives and Directors of inward Investors and Developers
External Inspection Agencies
Town and Parish Councils
The post holder will also be required to have occasional direct contact with a number of
European development agencies, EU funding bodies and other European nation states
regional and local government economic development
The post holder will required to regularly attend on-site meetings with developers,
investors and North Lincolnshire businesses and also frequent government and regional
development meetings.
Decision making:
The post holder will be responsible for:
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Determining and advising the long-term strategy for business investment, new
infrastructure and business premises provision for North Lincolnshire and for shaping
the future economy of North Lincolnshire. Reporting to North Lincolnshire Council’s
Head of Economic Growth, the post holder will attend Leadership, Board meetings
and Committees as required and oversee the performance and delivery of the
council’s economic strategy.
The strategy delivery, work programmes and budgets for the Planning and
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Regeneration Service.
Preparation and delivery of economic development and regeneration strategy
delivery.
Providing guidance and advice for all inward investors into North Lincolnshire and
providing assistance to existing business to secure and improve financial viability.
To determine economic and regeneration policy and ensure outcomes are embedded
in council strategy.
To determine the council’s strategy for working with partners in social enterprise
delivery and skills programmes.
Responsibility for resources:
Mobile Telephone
Laptop Computer
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work demands:
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Need for rapid response to major investors and to provide briefings, intelligence
updates to elected members, investors, businesses and government agencies.
Deliver to deadlines policy and programme outcomes and programme manage major
projects.
Provide briefings on all economic and regeneration policy impacts from European
and government legislation.
Provide professional guidance to Team members.
Requirement to meet changing deadlines for inward investors, funding stream
timescales and business priorities.
Physical demands:
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Requirement to drive and travel long distances and at short notice to meet investors
and developers and business partners.
Extensive out of hours work required to meet investors and represent the council at
business meetings.
Working conditions:
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Office based but need to travel extensively within the region to represent the council
and to regularly attend meetings outside of normal working hours.
Requirement to travel extensively within the UK and outside to represent the council
as required.
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Work context:
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Clients, investors, and businesses may apply unorthodox, aggressive approaches to
securing positive outcomes requiring a range of techniques and reporting procedures
to manage.
Requirement to operate with extremely high levels of confidentiality to with potential
inward investors and existing businesses.
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Position in organisation:
Indicate how many staff the post is directly accountable for:
Are posts in more than one location
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Is the supervision/management shared with another post in the structure? No
Please indicate which post(s) _______________________________________________
Head of
Economic Growth
Economic Development
Team Manager
Senior Economic
Development Officer
(Sectors)
Senior Economic
Development Officer
Economic Development
Officer (Sectors)
2 x fte
Economic Development
Officer
2 x fte
Assistant Economic
Development Officer
(Sectors)
Assistant Economic
Development Officer
Business Advisor
The post is subject to:
Disclosure of convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exemption) Act 1974 Yes □ No □
Political restriction Yes □ No□
Employee:
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Manager:
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