Economic Growth Champion- Digital

Full Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Economic Growth Champion to join our team on a full-time basis. The role comes with a competitive salary of £44,428-48,474 per annum depending upon experience.

The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority works with our local councils, the Business Board (Local Enterprise Partnership), local public services, Government departments and agencies, universities, and businesses to grow the local and national economy.

Our mission is to make life better, healthier, and fairer for all. We strive to serve our community by working cooperatively and leading with compassion. We are aiming for growth – but good growth. We want to close the gap in healthy life expectancy and salaries, increase access to employment and education, protect our environment and boost innovation.

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, where people can thrive both as individuals and as part of a brilliant team.

Key responsibilities:

• To provide a strategic view of Digital growth potential across the Combined Authority supporting the implementation and delivery of the recently commissioned Digital Strategy for the Region.
• What we are looking for in our role:
• To identify & ensure funding opportunities to support the delivery of Digital Growth in the CPCA region.
• To develop partnerships, bringing together key stakeholders and delivery organisations to support the delivery and implementation of the Combined Authority Digital Sector Strategic Action Plan.
• To develop strategic relationships with key central Government Departments to further the Combined Authority position as a leader in Digital, to also attract the relevant funding to enable delivery of interventions or programmes to support growth in the Digital sector.
• To assist as required the Trade, investment, and Innovation Senior Responsible Officer in responding to and supporting Inward Investment enquiries from companies or organisations wishing to invest or set up operations in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area.
• To work with the Combined Authority’s Skills Team to help them define priority skills / workforce sector needs. Enabling/ facilitating appropriate connections with the sector and the C&P Skills Team.
• To support the development of a Combined Authority Internationalisation plan across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, plus support the implementation and delivery of the Internationalisation plan as it relates to Digital sector.

As part of our commitment to promoting equality and diversity, we invite you to complete our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire Form. Your participation in this process is entirely optional and will not impact your application in any way. The information you provide will be kept confidential and will only be used for internal monitoring purposes. Please click on the link to complete Equal Opportunities Questionnaire Form

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Economic Growth Champion – Digital then please email your CV with a covering letter to now – We’d love to hear from you!