Description

Economic Strategy Officer

£36,363 - £40,777

Full Time - 37 hours a week

Fixed term Contract -  2 years

Rugby Borough Council is dedicated to both Community and Colleague growth. With a focus on wellbeing and personal development, we offer a range of career opportunities where you can take pride in the positive changes you help create. Join an organisation committed to the success of one of the Country’s fastest-growing boroughs and the people who make it thrive.

Rugby has impressive development and regeneration opportunities which will help create high-quality jobs and ensure economic prosperity. We are committed to delivering on our economic development aims and ambitions as identified in the emerging Rugby Borough Economic Strategy.

About the role

This is a Fixed Term Contract with a 2 year duration.

Are you interested in shaping the economic future of one of the fastestgrowing towns in the Midlands? We are looking to recruit an exceptional and motivated Economic Development Strategy Officer to help drive forward our growth and regeneration agenda.

As part of our dedicated Economic Development Team, you’ll play a central role in strengthening Rugby’s economic foundations—ensuring the borough has a robust, forwardlooking strategy supported by a strong evidence base, effective governance, and clear delivery plans.

You will work closely with colleagues, local businesses and a wide range of partners to ensure we have the best possible business support offer, an attractive inward investment environment, and a thriving skills ecosystem that enables our residents and workforce to benefit from highquality jobs.

In this role, you’ll help position and promote Rugby Borough as a great place to do business, visit and live, supporting our longterm economic development aspirations and the regeneration of Rugby Town Centre.

You will:

Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of Rugby’s Economic Strategy Action Plan, translating strategic priorities into a clear, deliverable and costed programme of activity.
Establish a robust threeyear action plan, including defined actions, milestones, ownership, outputs and outcomes.
Design and manage governance, reporting, and performance frameworks, ensuring effective oversight, monitoring and evaluation of economic activity.
Engage with local businesses and partners, understanding their needs and supporting delivery of economic initiatives linked to the action plan.
Maintain a strong evidence base, analysing economic data, trends and intelligence to support decisionmaking and future policy development.
Support the growth of the Green Economy, including green industries and skills.
Coordinate crosscouncil and external partner input, ensuring joinedup delivery of strategic priorities.
Respond to and support business growth, site enquiries and investmentrelated activity where aligned to the strategy.
Prepare reports, briefings and presentations for officers, Members and stakeholders on economic performance and progress.
Identify and support funding opportunities, helping secure resources that enable delivery of economic priorities.
 

About you

You’ll bring experience in Economic strategy development, action planning, programme or project management, and datadriven decisionmaking.

You’ll be an analytical, strategic thinker with excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams and organisations.

You will be confident managing multiple priorities, designing performance frameworks, and producing highquality reports and presentations.

You’ll need strong strategic and political awareness, with the ability to work positively and constructively with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholder

Please see the linked Job Profile for a more detailed overview.

Benefits

35 days annual leave (including 8 Bank Holidays and 3 extra days normally applied at Christmas)
Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
Hybrid working up to 60% 
Flexi time scheme
Annual leave purchase scheme
Subsidised parking
Structured Induction Program
Learning and Development opportunities including Future Leaders programmes
Payment of a professional subscription for approved professionals
Family Friendly Policies
Independent Support for your health & wellbeing
Generous compassionate leave
Extra Benefits including Retail Discounts, Cycle to Work scheme and more