Senior Inclusive Growth Manager

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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

How to apply

If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:

• Up to date CV
• Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above in the advert.

Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement have a maximum file size of 1.5MB each and upload your Personal Statement to the ‘CV and Cover Letters’ section’ of the form, ensuring you address the technical requirements and competencies in your Personal Statement.

Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g., “CV – applicant name - 012345)

As part of OPDC’s continuing commitment to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer we will be removing personal identifiable information from CVs and Personal Statements that could cause discrimination. 

If you have questions about the role

If you wish to talk to someone about the role, the hiring manager Paolo Nistri would be happy to speak to you. Please contact them at paolo.nistri@opdc.london.gov.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, contact the glaopdcrecruitment@tfl.gov.uk who support the OPDC with recruitment.

Assessment process

Once you have submitted an application, your details will be reviewed by a panel.

If shortlisted, you’ll be invited to an interview/assessment.

The interview/assessment date is: w/c 8 September 2025 (may be subject to change)

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.

Learning and development

At OPDC we are dedicated to empowering team members through ongoing learning opportunities and professional development initiatives. Our commitment to learning and development means that we will provide you with the resources and support to expand your skills and grow your career.

Additional Information

Please note, all candidates will need to confirm that the information provided in this application form is true and correct. Should a candidate deliberately give false information, including the use of AI software, they understand that this would disqualify them from consideration.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record (DBS) check but some roles may require additional security screening. 

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More Support

If you have a disability which makes submitting an online application form difficult, please contact glaopdcrecruitment@tfl.gov.uk.

The OPDC is proud to be a Level 1: Disability Confident employer. We are committed to becoming a more inclusive and accessible organisation, and creating a truly inclusive and accessible workplace and culture for our disabled staff. We have named Disability Equality as a key corporate priority within our EDI Strategy. We welcome and encourage applications from disabled applicants. Should you wish to opt into the scheme, please let us know during your application.

Please note all applications for this vacancy must be submitted via our online recruitment system. We do not accept CVs alone for this role. Please upload a personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words to the ‘Additional Documents’ section of the form, ensuring you address the following technical requirements and competencies in your personal statement. Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.
 
The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA competency framework.

GLA 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.

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 a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.

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. 

In addition to a good salary package, we 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.