Vacancy -- Appointment of Members - Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone Advisory Board (Welsh Essential)

The Enterprise Zones are designated geographical areas that support new and expanding businesses by providing a first class business infrastructure and support.


Each of the Enterprise Zones has a focus on one or more key business sectors. 


For more information on the Enterprise Zones please visit https://businesswales.gov.wales/enterprisezones/.

The current Enterprise Zone Advisory Boards were appointed in 2015 with a three year tenure which ends on 31 July 2018.  The Welsh Government is seeking to appoint additional members for each Board for a three year tenure from 1 August 2018 – 31 July 2021. 

The role of the independent, private-sector led Enterprise Zone Boards is to advise the Welsh Government on:

  

The role of the Enterprise Zone Board is to provide the Welsh Government with advice on: 

 

• The implementation and delivery of Enterprise Zone actions and priorities.

 

• Opportunity identification and securing jobs and investment in Enterprise Zones, ensuring that Equality and Diversity issues are addressed.

 

• Reviewing progress to date and activity in relation to the Enterprise Zone, which may include strategic advice towards investment opportunities, encouraging supply chain development, identifying property and infrastructure needs, business support, 
  international export, R&D, and marketing and promotion of the Enterprise Zone.

 

• Reviewing the existing strategies ensuring they remain current and reflect the opportunities presented to support Wales achieve strong growth in Jobs and wealth within Enterprise Zones.

The role of the Enterprise Zone Boards is to advise the Welsh Government on the implementation and delivery of action plans and priorities for the Zones, including:

 

• Strategic advice towards investment opportunities
• Encouraging supply chain development
• Identifying property and infrastructure needs
• Marketing and promotion of Enterprise Boards.

 

The Welsh Government is seeking to appoint members to the Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone Advisory Board.

The Welsh Government acknowledges the importance of developing and growing bilingual capabilities in public appointments in Wales, and welcomes applications from candidates who demonstrate their capability to work in both English and Welsh.  The following list of language requirements represents an objective assessment by the recruiting body of the Welsh language skills required to undertake the duties of this particular post.

To be considered, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the qualities, skills and experience to meet all the essential criteria for appointment.

Members of the Boards will be expected to:

• Attend Board meetings when requested
• Remain up to date with developments and current needs of the Enterprise Zone
• Have a good knowledge of the Enterprise Zone practices within the UK
• Maintain commercial confidentiality of private sector interests
• Provide impartial and independent input to discussions
• Foster close working relationships with experts and organisations

 
All members of the Boards will require the following core skills:

• A current practitioner with a proven track record in the relevant sector(s).
• A commitment to developing the sector within Wales.
• An understanding of how Government can work with business to increase the contribution of specific sectors to a country’s economic achievement.
• A good grasp of what it takes to succeed in business.
• Experience of identifying strategic commercial opportunities and monitoring the successful delivery of these opportunities.
• Experience of working with others  towards a challenging strategic goal.
• A clear understanding and commitment to equality and diversity.
• Have a clear understanding and commitment to Nolan’s ‘Seven Principles of Public Life’.

 

In addition, we are seeking the following skills in particular to each Enterprise Zone:

 

Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone

 

• A current practitioner with a proven track record in the Energy & Environment, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing or Construction sectors.

 

• Knowledge and experience of the above via other means, for example an established and in-depth academic or research programme involving collaboration with relevant organisations or sectors. 

 

• Local knowledge of the area relevant to the Enterprise Zone.  

 

Welsh Language

 

Welsh Language skills are essential for one of the posts and desirable for the others.

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Key facts about the posts

 

Location

Meetings are generally held at locations within each Enterprise Zone           

Time Commitment      

A maximum of 1 day per month (maximum of 12 meetings a year, frequency of meetings to be determined by the Chair)

Tenure of office

Three years

Remuneration

Unpaid, but Members are entitled to travel and other reasonable expenses within reasonable limits

  

Eligibility

Applicants should be persons who conduct themselves at all times in a manner which will maintain public confidence.  In particular applicants are requested to declare whether they are aware of anything in their private or professional life that would be an embarrassment to themselves or to the Welsh Government if it became known in the event of appointment.

Applicants should also note that being a member of the Enterprise Zone Advisory Boards is a disqualifying post for membership of the National Assembly for Wales under the National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) order 2015. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1536/contents/made.

 

Conflict of Interests

You will be asked to declare any private interests which may, or may be perceived to, conflict with the role and responsibilities as a Member of the Enterprise Zone Advisory Boards, including any business interests and positions of authority outside of the role in the Enterprise Zone Advisory Boards.

 

Any conflicts of interest will be explored at selection.  If appointed, you will also be required to declare these interests on a register which is available to the public.

 

Standards in public life

You will be expected to demonstrate high standards of corporate and personal conduct. All successful candidates will be asked to subscribe to the Code of Conduct for Board Members of Public Bodies, you can access this document at http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/governance/blboard/Board%20Code%20of%20Practice%202011.pdf.

 

 

To apply for this role, click on the ‘Apply’ button below. The first time you apply for a post, you will need to complete a registration form for the Welsh Government’s online application system.  You will only need to register once, and you will be able to keep yourself updated on the progress of your application, and any other applications you make, via your registered account.

Once you’ve registered, you’ll be able to access the application form.  To apply you will need to submit two supporting documents. The first, a document outlining how your knowledge, skills and experiences meet the criteria for the role as outlined in the information for candidates.  This document should be no more than 2 sides of A4.  Your application may be rejected if you exceed this limit.  The second document is a full, up to date CV.  The two documents should be uploaded to the ‘Reasons for applying’ section of the online application form.

In your application, you will also be asked to provide details of any activities which have helped you to develop skills that would be useful in a public appointment role, and list the organisations for which you undertook these activities.  We also need to know about any political activity that you’ve undertaken over the last 5 years. 

It is recommended that you register for an account and access the application form as soon as possible so that you see how the application form is structured, before starting to prepare your evidence.  You don’t have to complete the application form all in one go.  You can save your responses, and log in and out as required, until you’re ready to submit – just follow the guidance in the application form.

If you’d like to apply for this opportunity in Welsh, please use the ‘Newid Iaith / Change Language’ link at the top of this page, to take you to the Welsh version of this advert, from which you can apply in Welsh.

If you need any further assistance in applying for this role, please contact the Welsh Government’s Public Appointments Unit on 03000 616095 or PublicAppointments@gov.wales.

For further information about Public Appointments in Wales, please visit www.gov.wales/publicappointments