Black Country Place Lead

Organisation

Active Black Country

Salary

48,500

Location

Halesowen

Contract type

Fixed Term (Full time)

Closing date

6 December 2026

Job Description

This is a pivotal role in connecting and coordinating our work across the four Black Country places, helping ensure that local priorities, strategic ambitions and opportunities for collective action are brought together.

Working closely with local Place Leads, Active Black Country colleagues and wider partners, you'll help maintain momentum, strengthen collaboration and ensure activity across the Black Country is connected, aligned and making progress.

You'll play a key role in bringing together insight and experience from across the four places, identifying shared challenges and opportunities, and helping senior leaders and partners understand what is needed at a Black Country level to support lasting change.

We're looking for someone with strong experience of coordinating complex partnerships, programmes or place-based approaches. You'll bring excellent relationship-building, strategic planning and project management skills, alongside the confidence to engage with and influence senior stakeholders across different organisations and sectors.

You'll be comfortable navigating complexity, balancing different priorities and working across strategic and operational environments and someone who builds trust, creates clarity and helps turn collective ambition into meaningful progress.

How to apply

For full job descriptions and details of how to apply, visit our ABC vacancies page here: https://www.activeblackcountry.co.uk/news/vacancies-black%20country-place-lead-monitoring-lead/

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