Job Title: Interim Senior Regional Advisor (West Midlands)

Location: West Midlands, Homeworker

Salary: £76,042 per annum (excludes London Weighting)

Length of Contract: 6 months from 1 September 2025

About us

The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national membership body for local authorities. We work on behalf of our member councils to support, promote and improve local government.

We are a politically led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. We influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils to help them deliver local solutions to national problems.

We also provide councils with the tools and resources to respond to challenges present and emerging, and support improvement across the sector.

We value diversity and encourage applications from all sections of the community to this high-profile role.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Regional Adviser to work in the West Midlands regional team. This post is a great opportunity for a candidate who is passionate and knowledgeable about local government and wants to be personally involved in supporting improvement in councils at a time of significant change, challenge and opportunity in the sector and at the LGA.

Working closely with the Principal Adviser and other regional colleagues, as Senior Regional Adviser you will act as a key interface between the LGA and local authorities. You will need to be on the front foot, developing and maintaining relationships, partnerships and networks across the regions, and designing and delivering leadership and practical improvement support in councils. This work will include providing high quality scoping and diagnostic work to develop appropriate solutions and interventions for local authorities, and delivering or commissioning peer reviews and peer support to increase efficiency, build capacity and support improvement in local authorities.

You will also be a key building block in our multi disciplinary way of working across the LGA, ensuring that the learning and knowledge you gain from working with our councils is used to great effect not only for our improvement work, but equally to inform our policy development and lobbying work as well.

Your success will be determined by your ability to understand and respond to the highly challenging, politically sensitive and high-profile local government environment in order to manage complexities and risk, and successfully maintain a positive reputation for the LGA with its member authorities.

About you

You have a comprehensive understanding of the issues facing local government and the wider public sector

You have experience of working at a senior, strategic level in local government and can show evidence of being confident and credible in working with leading members, chief executives and senior officers

You will be able to hit the ground running, using your abilities and experience to effectively manage and maintain relationships with individual local authorities, networks and groupings of authorities and to ensure effective delivery of projects and programmes to support sector-led improvement

You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.

To apply

If you would like to be considered for the role, please complete the online form and include a supporting statement detailing how you meet the criteria for the role before the closing date.

We are specifically assessing candidates against the following criteria:

Demonstrable experience of leading successful projects/programmes
Experience of working with senior officers and members to deliver support
Record of achievement in complex and changing political environments
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret evidence and develop integrated support plan
Political sensitivity and the ability to exercise appropriate discretion on issues of significance and importance
Excellent organisational skills and the ability to deliver under pressure, prioritising work against competing demands to meet deadlines

Senior Regional Adviser (West Midlands ) - Job Description

Closing Date: 5pm, 12 August 2025

Interview Date: 20 August 2025 at Warwick Business School

We use anonymous recruitment, which is the practice of hiding candidates’ identities. This process involves removing any identifying information from candidates’ applications which includes names.

At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit.

The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”. Please contact us via Recruitment@local.gov.uk if you require a reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have.

Our benefits

LGA annual leave entitlement is 29 days, rising to 31 days after three years’ service and to 33 days after five years’ service, plus all UK public holidays (pro rata for fixed term and part time contracts).*
Flexible & agile working – office-based staff are required to work in the LGA’s London office two days per week as a minimum, subject to business need and this may vary significantly between different roles and from week to week.
Future development – face-to-face and virtual courses are scheduled in line with developmental goals
The LGA offers 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.
Family friendly policies

For more of LGA’s benefits and working with us, please view our webpage https://www.local.gov.uk/benefits-and-working-lga

Our values & behaviours

Our Values and Behaviours are there to give us an understanding of who we are as an organisation and who we want to be. They are a framework to help us understand:

how we work with each other
how we work with our members and stakeholders
our expectations for ourselves and each other

Our values are:

Collaboration – We value collaboration, to pursue shared goals by encouraging and utilising diverse perspectives and working with internal and external colleagues across the organisation.

Inclusion – We value inclusion, where everyone feels valued, understood, and supported to contribute meaningfully.

Ambition – We value ambition, reflecting our desire to achieve best possible outcomes for local government, communities, and individuals.

Respect – We value respect, to ensure fairness, recognition, and shared accountability.

Interim Senior Regional Adviser (West Midlands)