Assistant Director Area Regeneration
A Gateway to London and the World
London Borough of Hounslow
Salary: Up to £109,247
About us at Hounslow
Right now, Hounslow is on the cusp of something truly special as we are poised to launch our new groundbreaking approach to strategic area-based regeneration. We have an agreed Opportunity Hounslow Business Case for Growth which sets out our plans to align our ambition to ensure our growth is not just inevitable, but carefully planned to benefit all our communities. As a global borough with over 300,000 residents and 15,000 businesses, we are home to a diverse range of industries, from creative startups to logistics giants and we’re building a better future. Our current restructure and this role are part of our focus on the genuine delivery of placemaking ensuring it strengthens our communities.
Our mission is to create regeneration locally with local employment opportunities and a better environment, tailored specifically to our community’s needs. We are already building on our strong track record of growth which is among the highest performing London boroughs and has generated nearly £15 billion in GVA per annum over the last decade.
About the Role
Reporting to the Director of Regeneration & Economic Growth you’ll be responsible for developing a comprehensive approach to area-based regeneration across the borough, ensuring the necessary structures and capacity for multidimensional growth and placemaking across our three focused areas in Hounslow East, West and Centre. This is a unique opportunity, to lead, develop and direct your own new team to conceive a transformational approach to regeneration. The role is front and centre in actively engaging, communicating and influencing decision making within the council and delivering a pivotal part of the Council’s vision.
We operate within a genuine distributed leadership model. You will benefit from a clear and universal mandate from Members and a strong leadership commitment in understanding and supporting Council regeneration and borough growth. We have a positive and exceptional organisational culture to help you grow both personally and professionally whilst delivering our corporate and community-based regeneration aspirations. We know Inclusion and equality is pivotal to successful places, and with your leadership and regeneration expertise we want to go further, faster and be a place renowned for both.
About You
We are looking for someone who has achieved significant and sustained success in regeneration at a senior level who can propel one of our highest corporate priorities and deliver real growth. You will have a proven track record of delivering and leading a regeneration led service and successfully supporting or operating within a senior leadership team. You will be an instinctive collaborator with experience of working with stakeholders, communities, partner organisations and leaders who can drive regeneration whilst developing a best-in-class and empowering culture for your team. A natural storyteller you will be able to communicate a compelling vision to key stakeholders with an energy, ambition and commitment to delivering outcomes that make a real difference. We have bold ambitions for our Borough and our communities and there is no bigger, or more exciting, place to work right now, want to hear more?
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It’s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
For a confidential conversation about this role, please contact our retained consultants at Penna: Pete John on 07701 305617 or email: pete.john@penna.com or Kelly Ridley on 07709 512415 or email: kelly.ridley@penna.com To apply for this role please visit https://execroles.penna.com
For further information on the exciting work currently underway and planned please visit: www.opportunityhounslow.com
Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 16th March 2025
More Information
- Address Hounslow, London
- Salary Offer Salary Up to £109,247
