About the Council
About the Council
We are Team Leeds
In Leeds we have bold ambitions and a clear vision for the city’s future, making it the ideal place to take your leadership career to new heights.
You will be joining us at an incredibly exciting time for Leeds, as we build a shared future and realise our city’s huge potential through the collective power of Team Leeds. We know we are stronger together and that our residents benefit when our council, partners, businesses and communities work as one to achieve our goals.
Why Leeds
Our city and our council
In a major city of over 800,000 residents, you really can make a difference. With a huge diversity of communities with different strengths and challenges, you will use the breadth of your expertise with vision and compassion for lasting impact.
Leeds is the UK’s fastest growing city, a dynamic hub for business, creativity and innovation, and the main economic centre of West Yorkshire. We are a compassionate city, driven by our shared mission to tackle poverty and inequality in our belief that success for the city should mean better quality of life for everyone who calls Leeds home.
Leeds City Council is England’s second largest local authority, with over 14,000 employees delivering hundreds of services to our residents and their communities. In common with most of the sector, we are managing rising demand for our services in the face of diminished resources. We are confident that we will emerge stronger by focusing on impactful transformation projects internally and employing our Team Leeds approach to deliver for local people.
Our Leeds Ambitions
In September 2025 we will launch our Leeds Ambitions, our vision for the city that refreshes our Best City Ambition. Created in consultation with residents and partners, the Leeds Ambitions are a strategic roadmap with a core mission of addressing poverty and inequality to achieve real and measurable results.
We have listened and learned, and have built that feedback into the Leeds Ambitions to ensure we keep a sharp focus on:
Our updated priorities: Our Leeds Ambitions have at their heart four key priorities that reflect interconnected goals: health and wellbeing, inclusive growth, strong communities and a sustainable city
Tackling poverty and inequality: Leeds Ambitions serves as the city’s anti-poverty strategy, embedding Marmot City principles to drive meaningful change
Shared city vision: Leeds Ambitions is no longer solely a council plan; it’s a collective vision with shared leadership and input from diverse organisations citywide
Our Team Leeds approach: we’re building on the strengths of Team Leeds to further boost collaborative working, social value, community empowerment and resource sharing
Clearer impact measurement: A new outcomes framework will use action plans, benchmarks and data to track progress and monitor the impact of the Leeds Ambitions
Strategic partnerships: We want our partnership infrastructure to be fit for the future; continuing our work with Leeds Anchors Network and Leeds Community Anchor Network and empowering all partners to drive shared action