Strategic Infrastructure Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade I. Grade I. Scale 35 - £46,142 to Scale 39 - £50,269 with a professional bar at Scale 37 - £48,226**

Hours Per Week: 36

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

Assessment Date: To be arranged

Shape the future of growth and infrastructure

We’re looking for a Strategic Infrastructure Lead to play an important role in ensuring growth across the borough is well planned, coordinated and supported by appropriate infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to help shape how development is aligned with infrastructure deliverysupporting transport, education, green space and wider place-making to benefit communities over the long term.

The Role

As Strategic Infrastructure Lead, you will be the Council’s corporate lead on infrastructure planning, funding and delivery, working at the intersection of planning, finance and partnerships.

You will:

• Lead the Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP), ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with growth
• Oversee the Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) and developer contributions
• Manage and improve governance of Section 106 (S106) agreements
• Coordinate infrastructure planning across services and partners
• Build strong relationships with organisations such as utilities, health bodies, TfGM and GMCA
• Champion “good growth”, ensuring development delivers tangible community benefits
• Communicate and promote the positive outcomes of infrastructure investment

This role is central to ensuring development is sustainable, well-supported and aligned with long-term strategic priorities

About You

We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative and forward-thinking professional who can turn complex challenges into deliverable outcomes.

Essential experience and knowledge

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field
• Experience in planning, infrastructure delivery, regeneration or a related strategic role
• Strong understanding of infrastructure planning and funding, including IDPs, IFS and S106
• Experience managing complex, cross-service programmes and funding streams
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across multiple organisations

Key skills and attributes

• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving ability
• Confident communicator who can translate complex issues clearly
• Highly organised, with strong governance and reporting capability
• Collaborative and influential, able to deliver through partnerships

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in planning, transport, regeneration or similar
• Experience working with combined authorities or major infrastructure providers
• Knowledge of wider funding mechanisms and development viability
• Experience negotiating S106 agreements or improving funding systems

Why join us?

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Play a leading role in shaping how growth benefits communities
• Influence major infrastructure investment and delivery decisions
• Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment
• Be supported to grow, innovate and develop your career
• Contribute to creating high-quality, sustainable and connected places

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.

Apply now

If you’re passionate about delivering infrastructure that makes a real difference, and want to shape the future of growth in the borough, we’d love to hear from you.

** 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

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.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

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.

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For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Daniel Wheelwright on 0161 342 2490 or Daniel.Wheelwright@tameside.gov.uk