Who we are
“This is Manchester, we do things differently here.”
At Manchester City Council, we’re proud to do local government differently: as you’d expect from a city with our international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
A career with us means you can be yourself and thrive.
Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and we’ll support you – to build the career your talent and ambition deserves.
Make a difference in Manchester
The work you do changes lives. Whatever your role, you’re part of making Manchester lives healthier and happier.
Be yourself and thrive
We want a fair, inclusive workplace – as diverse as the communities that make our city. Every one of us must feel confident and comfortable bringing their true self to work, talking openly, and making the most of their talents to grow and to succeed.
Join an organisation that cares
We’ll always do our best to look out for you. We want a safe, happy, healthy, successful workforce, and our policies, practices and culture are geared to give equal access to quality work that’s fairly paid, secure and flexible.
Who we’re looking for
It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:
- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester.
Make a difference in Manchester
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. That vision belongs to the whole city: so you’ll work together with our residents, public, private, voluntary and community organisations, to put Manchester in the top-flight of world cities.
Together, you’ll help build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. To make that happen, every role we recruit to plays its part in making our city:
- Thriving and Sustainable: vibrant with a cutting-edge economy, which involves and fairly rewards all our people
- Highly Skilled: work-ready, well-educated young people, and all residents supported to take up opportunities
- Progressive and Equitable: so all can thrive, with better joined-up support, care and health services
- Liveable and Zero-Carbon: safe, enjoyable neighbourhoods with affordable housing; zero-carbon by 2038 using green energy, growth and design, and more climate-resilience
- Connected: more walking, cycling and green transport, and accessible digital technology used by and working for everyone.
Manchester today
Manchester’s come a long way, but we’ve still got deep-set challenges that will take great talent, determination and innovation to tackle:
- Health: Mancunians have some of the UK’s poorest health
- Poverty: An estimated 45,150 under-16s living in poverty in 2019
- Fair economy A gap remains between what residents earn and the earnings of all working in our city, and too many residents are in insecure employment
- Affordable housing We’ve committed to delivering 32,000 new homes by 2025.
- Climate change We declared a ‘climate emergency’ in July 2019 and aim to be zero-carbon by 2038 at the latest
These are huge challenges. That’s why we’re building a workforce fit to face them – putting people first; listening, learning and responding; recognising individuals’ and communities’ strengths; and working together to build the relationships and create the conversations to make our ambitions for the city happen.
FURTHER READING
Be yourself and thrive
Part of our commitment to being a fair, inclusive employer, means we’re continuously improving worklife and support for all staff. This is a place where you can be yourself, feel valued and make a real contribution to our city and the people we passionately serve.
It’s important to us that our workforce reflects the rich diversity and talent of our residents and communities. We believe that a diverse workforce has more perspectives, makes better decisions, has greater cultural awareness, and delivers better outcomes for our residents.
We tackle discrimination head on, we regularly talk to our staff and act quickly to put things right. We want every individual to feel confident and comfortable to bring their true self to work, talk openly, and make the most of their talents to grow and to succeed.
We’re proud to offer lots of development programmes to our staff, including targeted courses to help underrepresented groups move into more senior positions. A career with us will equip you with the tools and support to help you realise your ambitions.
‘The leadership programmes for Black and Asian employees, an example of how we are developing talent in our workforce’
Join an organisation that cares
We believe our policies and working practices are as forward-thinking as the city we’re proud to work for.
Our membership of the Good Employment Charter recognises our progressive approach to secure employment, flexible working, pay, listening to staff, recruitment, developing performance, and health and wellbeing.
See more about our core benefits in Why work for us
The City
This city has always been at the forefront of change.
The first public library, the first passenger railway, and the first football league. The birthplace of the suffragette movement, vegetarianism, and Vimto. The inventors of graphene, the submarine and modern computing. Manchester is a city of boundless creativity, innovation and culture.
But we’re nothing without our people, who have always dared to be different and think differently. It’s the people that make Manchester one of the world’s great cities.
Manchester has a diverse population of around 580,000 people speaking 200 languages. We have one of the UK’s youngest populations, yet older people are highly valued: we’re an internationally recognised Age-Friendly city.
The University of Manchester (just one of our several top-flight tertiary institutions) alone is one of the UK’s largest, with the city being home to over 100,000 students.
We’re building our workforce from every part of the talented diversity that’s made us such a successful, growing, connected and buzzing city.