Place & Regeneration Manager

Job title:

Place & Regeneration Manager Salary: PO4 £ 47,665 - £50,908

Hours:

37 hours per week

Location:

Merrion House, Leeds Deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious regeneration programmes:
Place & Regeneration Manager (up to £50,908k) Prior to applying, please contact Step for a candidate pack. Leeds is one of the UK’s fastest-growing cities, with a regeneration agenda that is both ambitious and visible. Working at the heart of the Council’s Place and Regeneration Programmes team, you will operate across some of the most high-profile and complex projects in the country.

Leeds is delivering one of the most ambitious and diverse regeneration programmes in the UK. This is a city investing in growth, infrastructure, housing, innovation and place-making of national and international significance. This is an environment where regeneration is not theoretical, it is happening now. We are therefore building capacity to deliver the next era of growth for Leeds, and are now looking for Place & Regeneration Manager to play a central role in shaping and delivering this agenda.  

You will be working on live, high-profile projects with real visibility and long-term impact, helping to unlock investment, shape major development opportunities and deliver regeneration that will define the future of the city – delivering long lasting benefits for communities. This is a technical and commercial specialist role for someone who understands how to turn strategy into delivery, working across and through partnerships, unlocking sites and making things happen.

What the role entails As a Place & Regeneration Manager, you will manage and co-ordinate major anchor project activity, site specific initiatives and thematic work to achieve housing, culture, economic, heritage and transport/ infrastructure led place & physical regeneration programmes.​ The work programme could include managing activities around Major city centre regeneration within the proposed Mayoral Development Zone, including our flagship schemes the Innovation Arc, West End Riverside, Eastside, South Bank and the potential South Bank New Town toolkit.​

Culture and Sports led regeneration around Elland Road, Royal Armouries and Temple Works, and heritage grant programmes at Morley and Holbeck.​ Housing Growth and Choice – Working closely with developers and registered providers to unlock housing and affordable housing provision​. Economic focused physical regeneration, including the Northern Square Mile, North West Leeds Employment Hub, regeneration around Microsoft’s proposed data centre, and supporting real estate focused inward investment​.

Infrastructure led growth at Leeds Station, new rail stations at White Rose, Thorpe Park and Leeds Bradford Airport, and potential mass transit corridors.​ Shaping and delivering future projects, visions and delivery plans to achieve the objectives of the Leeds Economic Vision, Leeds Ambitions and Leeds Affordable Housing Strategy. ​ About You You will provide specialist technical and commercial expertise, experience and knowledge from a relevant place orientated professional discipline (Professional accreditation from the Royal Town Planning Institute, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Institute of British Architects or Chartered Institute of Housing are desirable) – but with a flexible mindset to work beyond your core specialist discipline.  

You could come from a private sector (including consultancy), public sector or registered provider background. You will bring curiosity and passion for place, but rooted by practical skills to make things happen.  These are not capital project management delivery roles nor simply policy or strategy, and you be expected to develop meaningful partnership and…