SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE WEST MIDLANDS: JOIN A COUNCIL OF EXPERTS
West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker has laid out an ambitious vision to transform the region, focusing on four key priorities that will make a real difference in people’s lives:
- Jobs for Everyone – Investing in skills, training, and apprenticeships, reducing youth unemployment, and ensuring everyone has a job that pays well.
- Homes for Everyone – Building social and affordable homes, creating vibrant communities, so that everyone has a place to call home.
- Growth for Everyone – Helping businesses thrive, fostering innovation and creativity, ensuring the benefits reach everyone while protecting the environment.
- Journeys for Everyone – Connecting communities with safer, easier, and more affordable travel.
To help deliver on these priorities, we’re forming four dedicated taskforces made up of experts across a range of sectors - our very own council of experts. These Taskforces will bring together the best minds in the region to provide insights, challenge ideas, and help deliver meaningful change for everyone in the West Midlands.
If you’re passionate about making a difference, we need your expertise. As a Taskforce member, you’ll:
- Advise the Mayor and WMCA board, shaping strategies to drive progress in your specialist area.
- Bring fresh perspectives to policy development and help push forward the key priorities that will improve people’s lives.
- Lead short-term projects to accelerate action and ensure delivery in each priority area.
- Collaborate with experts from across the region to support wider engagement and help promote our ambitious agenda.
Why join? This is your chance to be part of something transformative. You’ll directly influence the policies and projects that will shape the future of the West Midlands - ensuring jobs, homes, growth, and journeys for everyone. Your expertise will help drive solutions that work for our communities, and you’ll play a key role in delivering on the Mayor’s commitment to improve the lives of those who live in the region.
We’re looking for applications from a diverse range of experts - who can bring unique skills, abilities, knowledge and experience – from a diverse range of sectors, including:
- Academia
- Thinktanks and Research
- Transport and Logistics
- Employment and skills bodies
- Higher education and training providers
- Employer groups, Trade Unions
- Community organisations
- Creative industries
- Health sector organisations
- The voluntary and community sector
We’re committed to creating taskforces that reflect the diversity of the region - this could include those with lived experience of poverty and/or disability, BIPOC, and/or those under 30 – who have an interest in the success of the West Midlands.
Time Commitment
Taskforces will meet three times a year, offering a flexible way for you to contribute your knowledge and make an impact. This is a voluntary role, but the opportunity to help shape the future of our region is priceless.
Taskforces will meet three times a year, offering a flexible way for you to contribute your knowledge and make an impact. This is a voluntary role, but the opportunity to help shape the future of our region is priceless.
How to Apply
Simply click the 'Apply' button, attach your CV, and complete a short, anonymous equality questionnaire. Applications are open from Wednesday, 23rd October until Monday, 11th November.
Simply click the 'Apply' button, attach your CV, and complete a short, anonymous equality questionnaire. Applications are open from Wednesday, 23rd October until Monday, 11th November.
Want to learn more?
Join Mayor Richard Parker on Thursday, 31st October at 11am to hear more about this exciting opportunity. Unable to attend? We have a recording that we can share with you. Please get in touch with our recruitment team (careers@wmca.org.uk).
Join Mayor Richard Parker on Thursday, 31st October at 11am to hear more about this exciting opportunity. Unable to attend? We have a recording that we can share with you. Please get in touch with our recruitment team (careers@wmca.org.uk).
If you’re ready to make a difference and join a council of experts driving change across the West Midlands, apply now.
We look forward to seeing how you can help make a lasting difference.
