Business Advisor – Workforce Development Specialist
The Growth Company
The Growth Company (GC) Business Support team has a vacancy open for a Workforce Development Specialist within the Tameside Local Authority to support business owners with demonstrable experience, knowledge, and credibility within all areas of organisational development practice to support business growth and good employment practice.As a Local Authority Workforce Development Specialist in Greater Manchester (GM) Business Growth Hub you will deliver high-quality, organisational/workforce development assessments at multi-levels for a portfolio of business owners/leaders. As well as diagnosing and supporting people-focused improvements across organisations to implement tailored action plans, which align the people development and business growth strategy aims and objectives to improve productivity and enable growth.This role requires in-depth knowledge and understanding of the business base in the Tameside Local Authority, the types of work, skills needs, opportunities and barriers/challenges within that locality which are affecting businesses. Specialists will work from within the Local Authority area for a minimum of 3 days per week across a variety of locations.GM Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across GM to realise their ambitions. Since 2011, GM Business Growth Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing finance guidance, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. We work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.Key Responsibilities:
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LocationTamesideBusiness Area Logobusinessgrowth.jpgCompany LogoGMBSCompanyBusiness Support Business Finance (BSBF)Contract typePermanent/ Full- timeSalaryUp to £37,000 per annumAdvert Brandgmbs.pngClosing Date22/04/2025Ref No4583Documents(Word, 44.25kb)We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at or call us on 0161 237 4447.All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.
£37000 per year
Tameside, Greater Manchester
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:14:11 GMT
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