Senior Inclusive Growth Officer

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Key information

 

Organisation: Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)

Job title: Senior Inclusive Growth Officer

Salary: £52,305 per annum

Grade: 8

Contract type: Permanent

Reference: 2703

Team: Inclusive Growth

Directorate: Delivery

Interview date: W/c 1 Decmber 2025 (May be subject to change)

Location: Office address: OPDC, First Floor, 6 – 8 Victoria Road, North Acton, London W3 6FF

Application closing date: Monday 17th November 2025 at 23:59:00

 

 

The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) is a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC), established by the Mayor of London to bring forward the regeneration of the Old Oak Opportunity area, spanning land in three London boroughs – Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham.

The Old Oak and Park Royal Opportunity Area is one of the most exciting and important regeneration opportunities in the UK – aiming to create an accessible, welcoming and well-connected urban district, centred around the new High Speed 2 station at Old Oak Common, with tens of thousands of new high-quality and affordable homes; good quality, well-paid jobs and shops; facilities, sustainable travel connections and public green space. 

 

Delivery Directorate

 

Responsible for driving the physical, economic, and social regeneration of the Old Oak and Park Royal areas. This includes overseeing land assembly, infrastructure development, and the implementation of regeneration and inclusive growth strategies.

 

The directorate aims to create a successful and sustainable development in Old Oak and Park Royal with maximum benefits for local communities, businesses and wider London areas.

 

The OPDC’s Inclusive Growth team sits within the Delivery Directorate and is tasked with ensuring that the investment and growth in and around Old Oak and Park Royal – through the OPDC’s activities, development programme and role as Local Planning Authority - brings real and tangible benefits for local residents and businesses. Its wide-ranging activities focus on key areas of OPDC’s work including:

 

• Developing strategic and innovative approaches to addressing key skills gaps in key economic growth sectors,
• Being at the forefront of delivering Mayoral, West London and local borough economic development policy and delivery
• Developing pathways through education and training into varied, exciting and rewarding careers in key economic growth sectors,
• Supporting local businesses start up, grow and thrive
• Working to raise aspirations and improve life chances for local people,
• Delivering our core commitments to diversity, inclusion, fairness and equity across everything we do 

 

What your day will look like

 

• You will work closely with key external partners to ensure the development and delivery of a robust suite of Inclusive Growth projects and programmes across a variety of economic growth sectors
• You will ensure the OPDC’s programme’s profile is raised and that it contributes to relevant groups and policy frameworks across West London and beyond
• You will liaise closely with local businesses, developers, contractors and employers in their widest sense to understand the sectoral short-, medium- and long-term skills challenges they face and develop responses accordingly
• You will support local SMEs with resilience and growth programmes

• You will oversee delivery partners to determine progress against stated project objectives ensuring initiatives run to programme and on budget

• You will support the delivery of wider social value objectives through directly commissioned works and services on behalf of OPDC