Contract Type: Permanent

 

Salary: Grade L. SCP 48 £57,763 to SCP 51 £64,211

 

Hours: 36 Hours per Week 

 

Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

 

Closing Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024

 

Assessment Date: To be arranged

 

Tameside is perfectly positioned for growth. With a wealth of culture, history and heritage to draw on and proud foundations that make it unique. Located just 12 minutes from Manchester City Centre yet nestled in the foothills of the Peak District; we’re gifted with urban opportunity and rural tranquillity offering an ideal location for easy access to both the city and countryside. 

 

With some of the largest pockets of land in the Greater Manchester area available for development, it really is a fantastic canvas for regeneration and growth with the aspiration, vision and ambition to match. We are all about creating the right environment to attract investment, jobs, homes and infrastructure to continue to make Tameside a great place to live, work, invest and visit.

 

Investment is underway through substantial major regeneration and capital projects across the borough. Bringing significant affordable housing development, substantial infrastructure investment to improve our connectivity across the region and beyond, alongside the revitalisation and re-imagination of our town centres.  

 

Reporting to the Head of Development and Major Programmes you will be responsible for leading on major projects within the Investment and Development team in order to drive forward the delivery of Tameside’s key strategic sites, including Godley Green Garden Village and Ashton Moss Innovation Park, to support the Council’s corporate objectives for growth.

 

You will have a relevant professional qualification, with experience of successful delivery of projects and programmes with private/public sector interface on time and within budget. You will be able to work effectively in range of multi-agency and partnership settings to deliver investment and development schemes whilst negotiating complex commercial arrangements for project delivery.

 

You will be able to work at pace with enthusiasm engaging with and influencing stakeholders.

 

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

 

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.  We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. 

 

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.  Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

 

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

 

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We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.

 

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