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Development Manager – Secondment (6 months)
Job Description
Housing and LandThe Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities. Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.
About the team
The ‘Thamesmead New Town’ project team is being set up to drive strategic development, develop the business case and provide programme assurance to secure designation of one of the first New Towns in London in over 50 years.
In support of this work the GLA is establishing a project team within the South Area team of Housing and Land focussed on the Thamesmead location. We are seeking a candidate with development, planning and/or regeneration expertise to be able to test and refine proposals over the next 6 months in collaboration with TFL, the Thamesmead Waterfront Joint Venture, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Homes England and the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
About the role
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to support Housing & Land on a strategic scale. It will suit those who are up for a challenge and want to make things happen
On 28 September 2025, government announced that both New Towns in London, Enfield and Thamesmead, have made it onto a national shortlist of 12 locations. Government have requested that the GLA provide programme oversight and assurance for the two London locations.
The workplan for this project is across 8 workstreams: Programme, Delivery Model, Planning Strategy, Masterplanning & Infrastructure, Viability and Funding.
In this role you will work closely with the Senior Project lead and our partners to shape the strategic delivery plan for the Thamesmead New Town, maintaining good project and programme management practice at all times. This will involve overseeing the production, maintenance and distribution of project documentation such as risk registers, action lists, project plans and programmes, ensuring that all workstreams are progressing efficiently and to a high quality. You’ll also provide advice support and guidance in terms of development, placemaking, affordable housing strategies and commercial funding agreements to internal and external stakeholders.
Joining this team means working on a strategic and high-profile project requiring insight and expertise across a broad range of policy areas. You’ll be collaborating with teams across the GLA and TFL, contributing to ambitious work that supports London’s growth, housing and transport goals.
What your day will look like
As part of a dynamic team working collaboratively across multiple local, regional and national government departments and organisations, your day to day will include
- Supporting joint working between the GLA, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Homes England, TfL, the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and the Thamesmead Waterfront Joint Venture, within the GLA’s role as Programme Assurance Lead. This includes coordinating and leading working group sessions and thematic workshops.
- Leading the commissioning and contract management of technical workstreams by collaborating with stakeholders to refine project briefs, preparing detailed contract specifications for consultant procurement, and, once appointed, monitoring expenditure against budget and managing the consultants outputs on a day‑to‑day basis.
- Engaging with internal teams across the GLA and TfL to ensure alignment on strategic delivery considerations, Mayoral priorities and Good Growth principles.
- Leading briefings, responses and decision papers for the Mayor, Deputy Mayors and Senior Leadership team, as part of the Mayor’s Making Best Use of Land Delivery Plan and associated governance arrangements.
- Contributing to the development of the New Towns spatial framework with a strong focus on high‑quality place‑shaping and regeneration, ensuring where necessary all technical workstreams are well‑coordinated and progress in parallel, while providing robust, high‑quality project management.
- Providing high quality and effective technical advice on development matters to identify delivery risks early and coordinate mitigations.
- Work across the Housing and Land directorate to develop commercial and affordable housing funding strategies and negotiate funding agreements to drive delivery and ensure affordable housing targets are met.
- Sharing insights and best practice, identifying opportunities to secure New Towns designation and reduce existing gaps and risk.
Behavioural Competencies
Building and Managing Relationships
Developing rapport and working effectively with a diverse range of people, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals
Level 2 indicators of effective performance
- Develops new professional relationships
- Understands the needs of others, the constraints they face and the levers to their engagement
- Understands differences, anticipates areas of conflict and takes action
- Fosters an environment where others feel respected
- Identifies opportunities for joint working to minimise duplication and deliver shared goals
Problem Solving
Analysing and interpreting situations from a variety of view points and finding creative workable and timely solutions.
Level 2 indicators of effective performance
- Processes and distils a variety of information to understand a problem fully
- Proposes options for solutions to presented problems
- Builds on the ideas of others to encourage creative problem solving
- Thinks laterally about own work, considering different ways to approach problems
- Seeks the opinions and experiences of others to understand different approaches to problem solving
Planning and Organising
Thinking ahead, managing time, priorities and risk, and developing structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time to a high standard.
Level 2 indicators of effective performance
- Prioritises work in line with key team or project deliverables
- Makes contingency plans to account for changing work priorities, deadlines and milestones
- Identifies and consults with sponsors or stakeholders in planning work
- Pays close attention to detail, ensuring team’s work is delivered to a high standard
- Negotiates realistic timescales for work delivery, ensuring team deliverables can be met
Other relevant competencies for the role:
- Decision making (Level 2)
- Communicating and influencing (Level 2)
- Organisational Awareness (Level 2)
The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework
How to apply
This role is open to all GLA Group colleagues. If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) form (800 words maximum) to Alice.Noonan@london.gov.uk by 23:59pm on the 21st June 2026.
Alice will be on leave till the 19th of June. In her absence, kindly direct any enquiries about the role to Heather.Juman@london.gov.uk.
PLEASE NOTE: The apply button redirects to the GLA intranet. If you are a non-GLA employee applying for this role, please follow the above process outlined in this advert on how to apply.
Principal Board Officer – Secondment (1 Year)
Job Description
About the role
The Mayoral Boards team has a vacancy for a Principal Committee Manager, fixed term for one year, supporting the work of the London Policing Board and its committees. You will work in team that also provides key clerking support across the GLA Group to the London Assembly, Mayor of London, Transport for London, London Legacy Development Corporation and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation.
Meetings are high profile and you can often read about work you’ve contributed to in the media on your way home.
To thrive, you’ll need excellent communication skills, the ability to manage and prioritise your time effectively, an eye for detail whilst still working at pace and a collaborative approach.
What your day will look like
- Supporting London Policing Board meetings, plus meetings of its committees;
- Preparing agenda papers and writing minutes;
- Coordinating with colleagues at the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime on a whole host of meeting arrangements;
- Providing procedural and governance advice in relation to meetings.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
1. Proven track record of success in managing formal committee meetings involving the decision-making processes in a high-profile and/or complex organisation.
2. Evidence of ability to interpret and apply relevant legislation and governance procedures.
3. Awareness of current affairs.
Please also note that it is a requirement of the post that the postholder agrees to Recruitment Vetting with Counter Terrorism Check, to be undertaken by MOPAC. It is condition of employment in this post to successfully pass those checks, at such intervals agreed by the GLA and MOPAC in accordance with shared services arrangements. This process requires the post holder to have been resident in the UK for 3 years.
Data Scientist – Secondment (1 Year)
Job Description
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Culture, Creative Industries and 24 Hour London (CCI24) Unit delivering the Mayor’s and the Strategic Licensing policy.
You’ll be at the heart of a fast-paced, cross-organisational effort to design and implement new licensing powers—with the ambition to launch by Autumn 2026.
This is a unique opportunity to:
- Support and shape a new policy and regulatory function within the GLA
- Drive innovation in how licensing supports London’s economic and cultural vibrancy
- Work with senior stakeholders across government, industry, and the city
- Make a visible impact on how London works, plays, and grows
We’re looking for a dynamic and driven Data Scientist to be part of the delivery of this major project by providing high quality information and advice to monitor and evaluate the implementation and service delivery of the Strategic Licensing pilot , and to further develop the GLA’s reputation as an authoritative and well-regarded source of reliable information and data on these issues.
An important part of the role will be to identify and experiment with new data sets and data science tools as needed to support delivery of data science projects, and to share this knowledge with the team or with the public.
This role is part-time 18.5 hours a week.
What your day will look like
- Using data science techniques to generate insights that support the design and delivery of London’s new Strategic Licensing powers
- Working closely with policy leads, analysts and external partners to translate complex questions into clear, actionable data projects
- Analysing large, complex and multi-source datasets (including time-series data) to understand trends in London’s licensing, cultural and night-time economy
- Developing and maintaining reproducible data pipelines, ensuring high-quality, regularly updated analysis that informs decision-making
- Applying statistical modelling and machine learning techniques to evaluate the impact of the Strategic Licensing pilot
- Exploring and experimenting with new datasets, tools and methods to improve how licensing data is used across the GLA
- Creating compelling data visualisations and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborating with London boroughs, consultants and industry stakeholders to innovate in the use of data across the licensing system
- Contributing to London’s open data community by publishing datasets, sharing insights and promoting best practice
- Supporting and mentoring colleagues by sharing knowledge on coding, data science tools and analytical techniques
- Participating in cross-functional project teams, helping to shape a high-profile, city-wide policy programme
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Ability to understand business and policy problems and to address them using data characterised by high-volume, high dimensionality and from multiple sources – particularly time-series data.
- Experience using predictive, statistical, or other mathematical techniques including supervised and unsupervised machine learning (including the ability to determine the best technique to solve a particular problem).
- An excellent grasp of standard statistical techniques for data analysis and exploration, such as regression and cluster analysis, and as well as experience using these techniques to solve real-world problems in a work environment.
- Strong proficiency in applying statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms using a variety of software/codebases e.g. R, GIS, Python to build reproducible processes.
- Ability to identify and effectively communicate data stories using data visualisation techniques and software, and quickly research and learn new programming/modelling tools and techniques
- A postgraduate degree in a quantitative field strongly related to data science, i.e. one that involves applied mathematics/statistics and coding or equivalent professional experience.
Senior Business Analyst – Secondment (1 Year)
Job Description
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Culture, Creative Industries and 24 Hour London (CCI24) Unit delivering the Mayor’s and the Strategic Licensing policy.
You’ll be at the heart of a fast-paced, cross-organisational effort to design and implement new licensing powers—with the ambition to launch by Autumn 2026.
This is a unique opportunity to:
- Support and shape a new policy and regulatory function within the GLA
- Drive innovation in how licensing supports London’s economic and cultural vibrancy
- Work with senior stakeholders across government, industry, and the city
- Make a visible impact on how London works, plays, and grows
We’re looking for a dynamic and driven Senior Business Analyst to manage thorough discoveries of new digital products and processes at City Hall. To set the foundations for intuitive, successful and user centre designed new licensing system for London.
What your day will look like
- Checking in with teams across City Hall to understand how current licensing‑related processes work, surfacing blockers and opportunities for improvement.
- Partnering with product owners, service managers and developers to scope new features, shape implementation plans and keep user needs at the centre of decisions.
- Translating business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and process maps that give the technical team exactly what they need to build and test.
- Running workshops that question assumptions, encourage user‑centred thinking and help teams re‑design processes for efficiency, simplicity and mobile‑first use.
- Sharing updates, analysis and recommendations openly across teams, contributing to the cross‑government BA community and promoting transparent, evidence‑based digital practice.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
1. Demonstrable business analysis experience within digital user facing products.
2. Experience working in programmes of digital transformation, embracing user centred design and business change.
3. Experience of running workshops and discovery sessions to efficiently and thoroughly prompt thought, challenge existing ways of working and encourage user centred design.
4. Thorough experience with writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria, working both with Product Owners and Technical Leads to effectively prioritise work, based on producing the minimum viable product.
5. Experience working in a multidisciplinary team, using agile principles and confident promoting these ways of working to others.
6. Knowledge and experience of using business analysis tools and techniques to understand and demonstrate process and requirements, such as UML.
7. Thorough understanding of government digital services, digital trends, technologies, practices and directions.
8. A working knowledge of a range of digital and collaborative tools, including those focused on ticket management, project planning, process mapping and wire framing.
9. Experience conducting user research and using remote usability testing platforms is desirable, but not essential.
Business Coordinator – Secondment (until 29 June 2027)
Job Description
About the role
The GLA Transport Team is seeking an outstanding candidate to fill a vacancy left by an internal secondment. This is a part-time role of 18.5hrs.
Working in a busy Unit, you must be able to cope with high volumes of emails, keep track of a large number of tasks and most importantly be able to assess and prioritise work confidently and quickly. You will be relied on to manage processes on behalf of the Unit and therefore will have outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail. You will have experience in a fast paced office environment and thrive under pressure. If you’ve got experience in a political environment this would be an advantage, as you will work on sensitive matters on a daily basis.
Working closely with the Mayor’s private office, those supporting the Deputy Mayor for Transport and Transport for London, you will be part of a small team working on high profile Mayoral priorities. You will therefore understand the importance of providing excellent customer service and be driven to communicate promptly, effectively and clearly with our partners and Londoners. This is a challenging yet rewarding role in which you have the autonomy to make decisions.
What your day will look like
- Liaising with Transport for London, including at a senior level, to ensure queries from the Mayor, his office and his advisors are dealt with effectively and in a timely manner.
- Providing support to senior managers in the GLA by determining and coordinating briefing requests for the Mayor and relevant mayoral advisors in the transport portfolio, to ensure they are appropriately briefed before meetings
- Managing the Mayoral correspondence allocated to the Transport team
- Leading on finance, raising purchase orders and completing goods received notices via the finance database to ensure the timely confirmation and delivery of required goods and services
- Acting as a first point of contact for enquiries to the Unit, both internally and externally, including from senior officers and politicians, and responding promptly to requests.
- Providing the full range of administrative support to the Unit
- Coordinating the Unit’s contributions to transport-related Freedom of Information requests
Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
- A high level of competence using office information and IT applications, and practical experience of using this to provide high-quality business support, including developing processes and managing confidential information.
- Demonstrable political judgment, with clear understanding of how working in a political environment affects day-to-day work.
- Sound relationship management skills, with the ability to establish and maintain relationships with external stakeholders to help deliver results, including at senior levels.
- Ability to manage high volumes of technical information and interpret it to ensure it is appropriately prioritised and allocated, to support the smooth-running of a busy team
- Substantial knowledge and evidence of delivering high quality customer services and proven success in applying this knowledge in a comparable high profile organisation
- Evidence of proficiency in dealing with complex written correspondence cases
OD & Talent Advisor – 7 month secondment
Job Description
We have a 7-month secondment opportunity (with potential of extension) for an Organisational Development & Talent Advisor (Band 2) in the Organisational Development & Leadership Team. This is a great chance to broaden your experience, work with supportive colleagues, and play a key role in supporting impactful coaching and leadership development programmes across the organisation.
This role gives you hands-on experience in supporting the delivery of leadership development programmes that support our people to grow and thrive.
You will:
- Support/Manage programme delivery end-to-end, including planning, tracking and evaluation
- Support the development and maintenance of Leadership and Talent initiatives
- Lead on application review and selection processes, ensuring a fair and high-quality experience
- Work closely with OD, L&D and People Business Partners to create meaningful, evidence-based interventions including reporting
- Contribute to creating tools and guidance that enhance performance, development and engagement
Key accountabilities
- Support the development and maintenance of Leadership and Talent initiatives through maintenance and monitoring of plans, guidance, standards and processes, with focus on organisational development, leadership development and diversity and inclusion
- Carry out any relevant diagnostics, analysis and administration / on team deliverables and cyclical activity in order to meet business and legislative requirements
- Support with the development and maintenance of framework and metrics to measure effectiveness of assessment tools and approaches, offers effective development for our people and ensure long term business continuity
- Support the delivery of OD and Talent initiatives included in the Colleague Roadmap deliverables, Action on Inclusion
- Lead planning and implementation of simple organisational and leadership development interventions programmes and plans
- Support HR Business Partners to embed and sustain OD and leadership initiatives in the business
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge
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- Understanding the link between Business Strategy and Colleague Strategy
- Awareness of Action on Inclusion and its link to the OD & Leadership team to increase representation and diversity
- External developments and best practice in organisational development
- Awareness of Mayor’s Framework for equality and inclusion
- Developments and best practice in talent management, organisational development and understanding of diversity and inclusion
Skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret data from a variety of sources
- Good stakeholder management skills
- Project management skills to be able to ensure successful delivery of initiatives from scoping through to delivery, embedding and sustaining change
- Ability to work in a business partnering environment in order to sustain and embed initiatives
- Understands the basic principles of designing behavioural and / or competency frameworks and can clearly describe how these support organisational performance and cultural shift
- Good facilitation skills with the ability to lead an event
- Ability to assist clients in diagnosing their needs
- Ability to build trust of employees and managers by consistently giving sensible and informed advice
Experience
- Experience of supporting successful development of policy and practices in a large, complex and highly unionised organization
- Experience of supporting the development of innovative interventions
- Experience in bringing about changes to support an outlined agenda
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who is proactive, collaborative and keen to take on broader responsibility in a fast-paced, people-focused environment.
Strong relationship-building skills and the confidence to work with a range of stakeholders will be key, alongside a genuine interest in organisational development, coaching and talent.
The ideal person will bring
- Ability to manage projects end-to-end, with strong planning and organisation skills
- Confidence in reviewing applications and supporting fair selection processes
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills
- Ability to analyse data and insights to inform decisions and improve programmes
- Good facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to guide and support colleagues
- A genuine passion for helping others grow and succeed
- Proficiency in Excel
- Knowledge of AI tools and SharePoint (desirable)
Director of Risk and Assurance – 12m secondment
Job Description
This is a pivotal leadership role within TfL, responsible for overseeing and maintaining the organisation’s enterprise-wide risk and assurance arrangements.
Reporting to the General Counsel, you will play a critical role in ensuring that TfL’s risk management, control and assurance frameworks remain effective, embedded and aligned to organisational priorities. You will provide independent oversight, insight and constructive challenge at the most senior levels, supporting the Executive Committee and Audit & Assurance Committee in understanding and managing risk.
Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the ongoing effectiveness, consistency and maturity of TfL’s risk and assurance landscape. This includes overseeing Enterprise Risk, second and third line assurance activities including internal audit, safety and engineering compliance, project assurance over TfL’s investment programme as well as counter-fraud and corruption matters. You will also support the activities of the Independent Investment Programme Advisory Group and its sub-groups to ensure that the business engages with their work and responds positively to their findings. You will also need to maintain robust governance and control environments, and ensuring that assurance activity is aligned, proportionate and effective across the organisation.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced leader to step into a Director role, with scope to further develop capability and make a lasting impact on one of the world’s leading transport organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and continuously enhance TfL’s enterprise risk management and assurance frameworks, ensuring they remain effective and aligned to business priorities.
- Oversee the embedding and consistent application of risk, control and assurance processes and the development of a strong risk culture across TfL.
- Provide independent oversight, insight and constructive challenge to senior leadership, the Executive Committee, the Audit & Assurance Committee and TfL’s other Committees and Panels.
- Ensure that governance, risk and control arrangements are maintained and operating effectively across TfL.
- Lead the delivery of risk-based second and third line audit programmes, ensuring high-quality, timely and impactful assurance outcomes.
- Coordinate assurance activities to ensure appropriate coverage and avoid duplication across the organisation.
- Implement assurance mapping and benchmark TfL assurance activities with other similar organisations sharing learning and best practice.
About You
We are seeking a senior leader who embodies TfL’s values: open, caring, and adaptable.
You will be a credible and visible leader, capable of influencing at senior levels while continuing to develop your impact across enterprise-wide risk and assurance.
You will bring:
- Strong experience in risk, assurance, internal audit or governance within a complex organisation and evidence of operating effectively at a senior level.
- A good understanding of risk management frameworks, governance and control environments, with experience of applying these in practice.
- Experience working with, or exposure to, senior stakeholders, with the confidence to provide insight and constructive challenge.
- Ability to build strong relationships and influence across teams and functions.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting the embedding of risk and assurance practices within an organisation.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear and practical insight.
- Evidence of leadership capability, including developing others and contributing to high-performing teams.
You may also have:
- Experience operating at a strategic or enterprise level, or supporting Board / Committee-level activity.
- Relevant professional qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIA, IRM) or working towards one.