How can I help your Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)?

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LEPs – I’ve been through it at the sharp end!

As you might have gathered from my CV, I’ve just finished working for 18 months at Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership, with 14 of those months spent as the guy running it. I found that my prior knowledge and experience from the past 18 years helped enormously. I know the field (as I specialise in all aspects of economic development) and I know the relationships – whether its local government, national government, business or FE and HE institutions.

So what might you want to hire me for?

My expertise broadly encompasses:

The types of assignments I might undertake may include:

Helping with your local growth strategy and growth deal: I can give you the inside track on local growth policy – I have prime networks with the leading voices and stakeholders for local growth in Whitehall. Where I can add significant value above and beyond other consultants is in articulating growth potential, and sharpening up the core messages and propositions from your formative growth strategies.  Local Growth Strategies are going to have to be seriously convincing in terms of having solid economics behind them –  in terms that civil servants understand and the government will back. I am expert at putting the ‘economics’ into economic strategies and growth propositions –  firming up the economic rationale and evidence for proposed priorities and actions.
Can’t wait for the what works centre to get up and running? talk to me – I have 18 years of experience. I’ve been a serious advocate for local economic development over the past twenty years, and am committed to helping localities.
Programme and project development: e.g. options identification and appraisal for enterprise growth, skills, international promotion; provision of advice and shortlisting of preferred options, implementation details, cost and likely impacts. For example – I could put together options for projects/investments for enterprise growth using knowledge of past and current practice, and local knowledge
Pitching proposals to government: I am well versed in making the best economic case to government for investments; for advising projects/organisations on improving their prospectuses and pitches to government – within areas of economic development, skills, enterprise, innovation. I am also well versed in building partnerships around propositions, and winning the support of local and business stakeholders, as well as listening to their views and incorporating their input.
Economic analysis and research: I have undertaken many technical economic analysis of regional and local economies; skills and labour market issues; trade and internationalisation; and enterprise growth. I specialise in top quality economic research written in a very accessible and media-friendly style – i.e. can usually be passed to a minister
Developing investment plans and strategies, establishing key decision frameworks and requirements that ensure the best value for money and best economic impact from projects

Your immediate challenges

Scanning the immediate LEP challenges, I could input into: RGF project initial stages and scoping out projects for RGF 5 and RGF 6 (I have a track record in developing and writing funding bids that goes back to 1999, as well as recent success in RGF4); Skills evidence base work (e.g. I worked as senior labour market economist in Scotland – undertaking a complete review of skills and labour market issues in Scotland as well as skills forecasts); briefings on options for enterprise growth (I did this comprehensively for London Development Agency); advice and economic appraisal of local growth strategy and European funding strategy – for example.

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