Senior Regeneration Manager

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £51,356 to Scale 43 - £54,495 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £52,413**

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 6BH

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

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; Tameside is 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 development pockets of land in the Greater Manchester area, it really is a fantastic canvas for growth with the aspiration, vision and ambition to match. The Council is focussed on creating the right environment to attract investment, jobs, homes and infrastructure to support the growth of Greater Manchester and continue to make Tameside a great place to live, work, invest and visit.

Tameside has a number of significant growth projects that are being taken forward. These include the 2,150 homes at Godley Green Garden Village, the Ashton Moss employment site with capacity to deliver 1m sqft of commercial floorspace for advanced manufacturing uses, the Ashton Town Centre / St Petersfield mixed use regeneration schemes and other significant town centre regeneration projects.

These growth projects will deliver significant benefits including affordable housing, substantial infrastructure to improve connectivity, social value outcomes, unlocking private sector investment and expertise, alongside the revitalisation and re-imagination of Tameside’s town centres.

Reporting to the Major Projects Manager and your role specifically will be to help drive forward the delivery of Tameside’s ambitious proposals for the Ashton and Stalybridge Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) as a national exemplar of transport led regeneration and projects in both town’s to support the Council’s corporate objectives for growth.

About You

You will be educated to degree level

You will have experience of successful delivery of projects and programmes with private/public sector Interface on time and within budget. You will have experience of undertaking negotiations on development agreements, strong commercial awareness and detailed understanding of business principles, practices.

You will be able to work effectively in range of multi-agency and partnership settings to support delivery of investment and development schemes

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

About Us

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.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application

Unfortunatley, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time

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

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.

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 07974111756 or mike.reed@tameside.gov.uk

**This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.