Skills Service Manager

Grade J SP 1-4 £29,076 - £33,667 per annum.

This post is Maternity Cover.

Based in Leeds City Centre.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to manage WYCA’s high profile Skills Service, ensuring that it provides a valuable offer to businesses that responds to the needs of the economy and addresses skills shortages and skills gaps.

You will assess the business case for each application to the fund, making the necessary recommendations, along with actively managing contractor/s and influencing the activity of approximately 15 contractors.  You will be required to ensure detailed updates on all aspects of the programme, including information on spend, outputs and outcomes are available for a range of stakeholders including Local Authority Elected Members, Chief Executives, lead officers and LEP Board members.

You will need to have a detailed knowledge and understand of public funding to ensure that it is being used appropriately and experience of developing robust project management systems.

The successful candidate will need to have the skills to prepare detailed and concise reports and present them in a variety of different settings.

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent, have a proven track record of preparing applications for economic development programmes and be able to influence, shape and where appropriate, lead the work of external teams, building strong working relationships with a wide range of public and private sectors organisations.

If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.

Please note that the successful candidate will be employed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) but will work within the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (The LEP).

For more information about the work on the LEP, please visit www.the-lep.com

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 24^th July 2016

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 12 months unless you make a request for this to be deleted.

Please note it is WYCA’s policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments