People & Prosperity Manager

Job Description

The Service & Team:

The People and Prosperity Manager will report directly to the Head of Skills, within the Economy and Skill Service of the Council.

The Role

This is an exciting role sat within the Skills Team, leading and developing the strategic, policy, investment and commissioning of a wide range of skills programmes.

The role holder will lead and manage an employment and skills focussed team which will ensure that the organisation and wider partners and stakeholders are able to capitalise on opportunities to grow the economy of the region. This will include setting strategic direction and policy and using comprehensive and relevant economic intelligence to inform delivery.

To represent the Council and negotiate with appropriate partners and external stakeholders at regional, national and international levels in order to develop proposals for and agree employment and skills programme and resource arrangements. This will include partners in the private, education and community sectors as well as the public sector.

To provide a leadership role to the provision of employment and skills co-ordinating strategic delivery and guiding investment decisions, monitoring performance and acting upon intelligence to support evidence-based strategic programming including devolution.

To lead the corporate engagement process to ensure timely and appropriate reporting of performance and delivery to members and corporate directors.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

Working Pattern

37 hours a week. Flexible working arrangements and options available.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Working together - You understand and focus on customer satisfaction and work well with colleagues and partners.

Resourceful - You apply expertise, solve problems and make improvements to deliver the best possible customer outcomes.

Personal responsibility - You take responsibility for your work, your environment and your development.

Engaging leadership - You create a healthy and engaging working environment by building trusting and supportive relationships, encouraging development, recognising achievement and tackling underperformance.

Political awareness and understanding of the Councils and partners decision making processes and record of building effective relationships with senior officers, elected members and the private sector.

Up to date knowledge and understanding of government policy and legislation.

Thorough knowledge of relevant community, academic and business sectors, how they work and the challenges they face.

Substantial Experience Of Employment And Skills Development Agendas.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What You’ll Get In Return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
  
  

Additional Information

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Stacey Sleeman on [email protected]

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.