Head of Inclusive Growth & Skills

Thank you for your interest in our vacancy for a Head of Inclusive Growth and Skills (Construction & Built Environment). We encourage you to download the full recruitment pack above. Here you will find further information on LLDC and the role profile.

This is your chance to make a career move like no other, working with a diverse group of passionate people, to deliver a positive impact for the greatest city in the world. We are committed to opening up opportunities for diverse, local talent both as an employer and as a regeneration agency.

We are absolutely committed to better reflecting the communities we serve in east London, and we are looking for someone passionate about this too. We’re keen to hear how your work and lived experience make you suitable for this role, and we’d especially welcome applications from people based in our local communities, and those from traditionally underrepresented groups. Above all, we want to understand how you will give us a better representation of the perspectives of those we are here to serve, and how you can help us to continuously support and develop our inclusive culture to make LLDC the employer of choice.

At LLDC, we appreciate that you may want a flexible approach to working. It’s about giving our employees the opportunity to be adaptable, embracing new ways of working to improve our productivity and performance promoting hybrid-working. This role will be considered for flexible working if required, which could be, for example, job share or compressed hours.

The Opportunity

As Head of Inclusive Growth and Skills, you’ll drive social value from the significant physical development activity underway and planned at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park acting as an ambassador, promoting our exemplar approach to Inclusive Growth, a trusted and expert advisor to our Developer partners to ensure they play their part in this exciting agenda, and an inspirational leader to your direct reports and delivery partners to ensure that we continue to deliver excellence and achieve best value.

You will spearhead our sector-leading approach to Inclusion and Diversity to ensure that QEOP’s construction and built environment programme better reflects the communities we serve, and you will be a champion of our key principles of Good Work and Fair Employment practices, advancing our ambitions for a London Living Wage Zone at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Is it for you?

You’ll need to demonstrate an excellent understanding of and commitment to inclusive growth and inclusive economy, with strong project management skills and able to work in a complex stakeholder environment. We are absolutely committed to better reflecting the communities we serve in east London, and we are looking for someone who is passionate about this too – we’re keen to hear about how your work and lived experience might make you suitable for this role. We’d welcome applications from people based in our local communities, or those from traditionally under-represented groups. We’re very proud of our inclusive culture at LLDC – what we care about is what you can do.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is really important to us at LLDC, and so alongside the above you’ll also need to have a good grasp of how inclusion and diversity impacts on organisations and put the inherent value of creating diverse teams and building inclusive practice at the heart of everything you do.

How to apply

To apply for this post, please follow the application instructions within the job advertisement and ensure that you provide the information that we have requested within our online application form.

Please be aware that we DO NOT ACCEPT CVs for any roles within the LLDC. Therefore, please complete the entire Online Application Form.

We would also appreciate it if you would take the time to complete the Equality and Diversity Monitoring section. The information you give us will help us to refine our recruitment and employment practices and respond to the needs of the diverse range of people that our organisation comes in contact with. All details that you provide will be kept in strict confidence and will not be viewed by any member of the selection panel.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 22nd February 2023 at 11:59pm.

Interviews will be taking place the week commencing w/c 27th February either in-person or via Microsoft Teams video call. The details of this process will be advised should you be invited to interview.

If you would like to discuss this role further or have any questions, please email our Talent Acquisition Team on recruitment@londonlegacy.co.uk

If this all sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you!