Business Support Officers (two posts)
Grade H SP1-4 £23,221 - £26.887 per annum
Please note: It is WYCA policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments.
Incremental increase annually.
Leeds City Centre Location
Full-time permanent position
The Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is entering an important new phase in delivering its vision for transformational economic growth. Can you help us continue our success to the next level?
The LEP promotes the Leeds City Region’s interests on a national and international scale, enabling business and enterprise to thrive and unlocking potential through partnership. Our vision is to develop the City Region as an economic powerhouse, creating jobs and prosperity for all who live and do business in our region.
Working within the LEP’s Business Growth Service (Growth Hub), the Business Support Officers will be responsible for providing a highly professional, responsive and customer-focussed information and referral service to all businesses across Leeds City Region, but with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the ambition and ability to grow. They will also undertake a range of proactive research activities to maintain a detailed understanding of all products, services and intelligence tools available to support SMEs in Leeds City Region.
The successful applicants will have a good understanding of the issues and opportunities facing SMEs, and the ability to develop and maintain a detailed working knowledge of all the support available to them. They will possess excellent verbal communication skills and be able to build strong and trusted working relationships with businesses and other key organisations involved in business support. As the ‘front line’ for the LEP’s Growth Service, the post-holders will play a pivotal role in enhancing the LEP’s offer to its large SME base.
We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic individuals who can work flexibly and with precision in a high-profile and demanding environment. You will need strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to demonstrate empathy with people running and managing their own businesses.
For more information about the work of WYCA, please visit www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk
West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) has a flexible and encouraging approach to helping you achieve your best work/life balance and career goals with a range of benefits including a local government career average pension scheme, a free countywide travel MCard (zone 1-5) and flexitime working scheme.
We encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, race, gender, religion or beliefs, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.
To submit your application form online please visit
http://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/jobs/ by Sunday 19th November 2017
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. Candidates will be notified of invitation to interview by e-mail.
No Agencies please.
Candidate information will be retained by WYCA for 6 months unless you make a request for this to be deleted.