The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is looking for a Strategic Lead for Social Value and Sustainable Procurement to help ensure that every strategy, programme and investment we deliver creates meaningful benefits for our people, businesses and communities.
This is a crucial role sitting across both our Strategy Units social impact function and our Procurement team. You will shape and lead our approach to maximising social value, embedding sustainability, and strengthening corporate social responsibility and philanthropy across everything we do.
If you are motivated by inclusive growth, public value and making public spending work harder for communities, this is an opportunity to lead change at regional scale.
About the role
You will lead the development and implementation of WMCAs approach to social value and sustainable procurement, supporting delivery of the West Midlands Growth Plan and our Inclusive Growth Framework.
You will ensure that our One in a Million commitment, Good Work ambitions and wider community outcomes are embedded in procurement from the outset. Working across Procurement, Inclusive Growth, Inclusive Communities, the Single Assurance Framework and the newly establishing Programme Management Office (PMO), you will help ensure that social value and sustainability are embedded into programme design, governance and delivery from the outset.
You will act as WMCAs exp...