Thank you for your interest in career opportunities with York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority.
York and North Yorkshire is a region of remarkable opportunity, combining vibrant urban centres, historic destinations, thriving market towns and extensive rural communities. Through devolution, we have been entrusted with significant powers, responsibilities and investment to help unlock economic growth, improve transport, develop skills, support communities and create opportunities for residents and businesses across the region.
As a Combined Authority, we bring together partners to drive strategic investment, public service transformation and long-term prosperity. Our responsibilities span transport, economic development, skills and employment, infrastructure investment, strategic planning and Policing, Fire and Crime functions, giving us a unique role in shaping the future of the region.
Since our establishment, we have built strong foundations and recently achieved Established Status, recognising the significant progress we have made as an organisation. We are now entering the next phase of our development, focused on strengthening our capability, capacity and leadership to deliver our ambitious plans for York and North Yorkshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment. Whether your expertise lies in finance, assurance, communications, legal services, governance, HR/OD, transformation or executive support, you will play an important role in helping us deliver meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve.
We are currently recruiting across:
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to help shape the future of York and North Yorkshire, we would be delighted to hear from you
As a growing organisation, strong financial management, governance and accountability are fundamental to delivering our ambitions for the region. Our teams play a critical role in ensuring that public resources are managed effectively, risks are understood and controlled, and decision makers are supported with robust information and insight.
Whether your background is in finance, audit, assurance, performance, evaluation or risk management, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact. These roles offer the chance to help shape a maturing organisation, develop new ways of working and support the successful delivery of devolution across York and North Yorkshire.
We are looking for talented individuals who share our commitment to public service, continuous improvement and delivering value for our communities.
Having recently achieved Established Status, we are entering an exciting new phase of our development and are looking for an exceptional communications leader to help shape our reputation and tell the story of our region.
As my deputy, you will lead strategic communications, media relations, public affairs and stakeholder engagement, working closely with the Mayor's Office, senior leaders and partners to support the delivery of our ambitions for York and North Yorkshire.
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing organisation, helping to shape both our communications function and the future of the region we serve.
If you are a strategic, collaborative and ambitious communications professional, we would be delighted to receive your application.
Strong governance and democratic arrangements are essential to maintaining public confidence and trust, supporting effective decision-making and ensuring that the Combined Authority operates with transparency and accountability.
Our Governance team provides expert advice and support across democratic services, information governance, compliance, scrutiny and corporate governance. These roles offer the opportunity to work at the centre of decision-making while helping to embed best practice across a growing organisation.
As we continue to evolve and develop, we are looking for individuals who can help strengthen our governance arrangements and support the effective delivery of our responsibilities on behalf of residents and businesses across the region.
The Mayor's Office is central to delivering the Combined Authority's ambitions and ensuring that the priorities of residents, businesses and communities are reflected in everything we do.
We are recruiting to a number of exciting roles that support the Mayor and senior leadership team. From stakeholder engagement and policy development to high-level executive support, these positions offer the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment at the heart of regional decision-making.
Joining the Mayor's Office means contributing directly to initiatives that are helping to shape the future of York and North Yorkshire while supporting positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
This is an exciting time to join our organisation as we continue to build the leadership, culture, systems and support needed to deliver our ambitious plans for the region.
Our People and Transformation teams are responsible for helping the organisation develop, evolve and perform at its very best. Whether supporting senior leaders, driving organisational change or delivering key transformation projects, each role contributes to building a high-performing organisation capable of delivering meaningful outcomes for communities across York and North Yorkshire.
These roles offer the opportunity to influence how we work, support continuous improvement and help shape the future of the Combined Authority
The Combined Authority was launched as a new organisation in early 2024. It is a public sector employer with access to powers and funding to unlock transport and housing improvements, boost skills provision and help the economy transition to net zero for York and North Yorkshire. Making the most of the combined strengths of the city region and rural powerhouse, the Combined Authority is a long term commitment to shaping a brighter future for generations to come. As one of only two combined authorities to incorporate partners in the form of Police, Fire and Crime and the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, plans are in place to harness huge economic opportunity for the region and to raise the living standards for communities to enable the region to make a full contribution to the UK economy. There is a focus on delivery to put the York and North Yorkshire area on the map for regional and national success.
By working for us you will play a part in making positive changes, unlocking investment, supporting business and communities to thrive and creating new and better opportunities for people that live and work here.
Roles within the Combined Authority operate on a hybrid basis. While flexible working is supported, postholders will be expected to attend in-person meetings and partnership activities at our offices in Harrogate, Northallerton, and York, as required by the role and service.
The benefits of working for the Combined Authority include:
- Generous leave entitlement, starting at 28 days plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rota for part time staff)
- Flexible working practices including working from other locations and from home
- Local government pension scheme
- Commitment to staff development and continuous learning
Living and working in York
We are proud of York’s status as one of the safest and best cities to live in the UK, engaging our 202,000 residents and 7 million visitors to live healthier, happier independent lives.
We are a vibrant, digital city at the heart of Yorkshire – the best of tradition and the modern. With excellent connectivity by road and rail, the neighbouring towns and cities of Leeds, Hull and Harrogate are in easy reach. National Parks and areas of areas outstanding natural beauty are on our doorstep, with their quaint villages and market towns, whilst the Yorkshire coast provides a retreat ideal for sunny days.
We are known for our considerable assets – we have our internationally important heritage, with strong creative industries and a significant cultural offering. We have strengths as a science city, and our digital infrastructure recognises us as the UK’s first Gigabit City. We have a young and highly skilled workforce, and lay claim to world leading universities and some of the highest performing schools and colleges in the country.
We are ambitious and aim to be a prosperous city for all – where local businesses can thrive and residents have good quality jobs, housing, opportunities and access to quality public services. We celebrate and champion the diversity of our population and encourage everyone to play an active role in the city, so that our vibrant economy and rich communities can make York the acclaimed city it is. We are one of the safest cities in the country and offer some of best available education.
A city of Sanctuary and Human Rights, our community is truly multicultural and diverse. We are the first city in the North of England to set the aspiration to make our city an anti racist and inclusive one. We are committed to tackling discrimination in all aspects of services that the Council delivers, including public health, in order to have an impact and bring about positive change to our residents.
Our thriving retail and visitor economy welcomes millions of visitors every year. We have been recognised as the ‘foodie centre of the universe’ and our Christmas market is the best in the UK. Our many awards include Sunday Times best place to live, Conde Nast city of best architecture and in 2018 YouGov found that we are the nation’s favourite city. We are friendly, community spirited, festive and summer friendly – what’s not to like?
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Living and working in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a thriving county that adapts to a changing world and remains a special place to live and work.
North Yorkshire's natural beauty is captured in its three areas of Outstanding Natural Parks, National Nature Reserves, stunning coastlines, scenic rural villages, vibrant cities and market towns. North Yorkshire really is a beautiful, thriving and special place to live and work, rich in heritage and culture.
North Yorkshire features significantly in the ten best places to live in the UK in Halifax Quality of Life Survey. The Quality of Life index aims to quantify where living standards are highest in the UK by ranking local performance across a range of indicators. Local areas featured in the top ten included Richmond, Selby and Malton.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics bulletin positions North Yorkshire as the safest place in England with extremely low crime rates.
In addition, the county benefits from excellent road and rail links, with easy access via the east coast mainline, the A1(M) and A19. Leeds, York, Newcastle, Durham and Teesside are all easily commutable, and London and Edinburgh are just two hours away by train.
From its lively cities to pretty villages, rolling countryside and grand coastline, North Yorkshire has so much to offer including great employment opportunities for your family members, along with a higher proportion of schools which are good or outstanding compared to national figures.
You can find out more about what North Yorkshire has to offer on the No place like North Yorkshire website North Yorkshire - start planning your visit - VisitNorthYorkshire.com