Economic Growth Officer WCC623407

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £49,155 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 25 March 2026 

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MIHIR’S VISION AND INSPIRATION

Capital Works in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and focused people like Mihir are using all their skills to improve and enhance the lives of the people who live, work and play in our borough.

As a Senior Project Manager, it’s Mihir’s job to make sure the estates in the south of the borough are great places to live. Since joining us, he’s worked on many important projects, but is particularly proud of a recently completed major works project at Vale Royal House, in the heart of bustling Chinatown. In the pipeline for about 12 years, renovating the site has been one of the most complex and challenging projects ever undertaken by the council.

Before work started, Mihir had to liaise with dozens of different stakeholders, taking into account local events such as the Chinese New Year celebrations and the vibrant, round-the clock nature of the area. But after a challenging two year programme he and his team are proud to have delivered upgrade work to 117 state-of-the-art apartments set around a beautiful hidden courtyard, which are home to more than 1500 people from a hugely diverse range of backgrounds, sitting above 15 new commercial food and retail shops.

Mihir is dedicated to providing homes that people can cherish and be proud of, places where they can live, work and raise their families. His vision and inspiration has been the driving force behind the transformation of a rundown inner-city area into an oasis of peace, calm and security, and will allow its residents to grow and flourish in the heart of one of the world’s great capital cities.

The Role:

As an Economic Growth Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. When you join us, you’ll work with our Economic Growth Leads and the Head of Economic Growth to deliver a range of programmes, projects and services. You’ll initially focus on the Inward Investment portfolio. Using in-depth research and detailed planning, you’ll work to identify and attract high-growth businesses from a number of priority sectors.

Liaising with internal stakeholders to deliver a concierge-style service to high profile businesses, you’ll maintain close working relationships with destination management partners and Business Improvement Districts. You’ll also develop creative initiatives to bring investment to Westminster.

A particularly attractive aspect of this role is the fact that your portfolio may change over time to provide you with exciting career development opportunities and accommodate agile ways of working. For example, you could move from Inward Investment and focus on Business Improvement Districts, Enterprise Spaces, High Streets, Business Support or Meanwhile Activations, which provides support to enable the successful evolution and expansion of our ground-breaking ‘MeanwhileOn: West End’ programme.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

This is a great opportunity for skilled relationship builder who possess the communication, interpersonal and influencing skills necessary to work with – and understand the needs of – a diverse group of stakeholders and entrepreneurs.

With well-developed knowledge of economic development services, concepts and practices, you’ll be a collaborative team player with experience of applying critical thinking and research to your work.

Your excellent communication skills will see you building and maintaining relationships with established and fast-growing businesses that often need time sensitive support and guidance.

You’ll have the ability to apply structured thinking and evidence to tackle challenges and achieve practical solutions to any issues you face.

You should have plenty of experience supporting businesses at different stages of their life cycle, practical knowledge of the creation and delivery of project and programme briefings to a wide range of senior stakeholders, and the ability to help with the delivery of enterprise spaces, business incubation, accelerators and workspaces projects.

You’ll be skilled at converting strategic objectives into operational plans, and capable of coordinating resources to achieve positive results.

Committed to maintaining a strong focus on key priorities and deliverables, and able to stay resilient in a dynamic, fast-moving environment, your information gathering and processing skills will see you getting to grips with problems and identifying positive solutions.

It’s important that you have a good understanding of account and contract management. You should also have confident IT skills and be capable of translating research outcomes into concise, meaningful reports.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.