Director of Open Spaces, Leisure

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Enfield London Borough Council Full time

Be Bold, Make a Difference, Show you Care

Enfield is home to an increasingly diverse population we are investing in our places and people to make sure they all thrive. We are developing a whole community approach to our communities whether it's through our flagship libraries, social care strategies or community led regeneration we want to continuously drive our improvement in our services to deliver a fairer and vibrant council and borough. Making a positive difference at London Borough of Enfield is central to our borough's mission and caring for all our communities and diversity sits at the heart of all we do.

As our new Director and part of our senior management team, you will lead a team of 120 staff for our Leisure, Rural Estate, Parks & Culture service.

Our assets include over 1,000 hectares of parks and open spaces attracting 13m visitors a year. You'll be highly ambitious, shaping and managing our community focussed services across the Council, responsible for leading and promoting a fairer health and well-being approach and positive culture in a borough where everyone feels valued and included.

If you have experience of leading and developing community focussed leisure, commissioning or culture led strategies which have sustainable and commercial thinking at their core, then we would be delighted to hear from you

For further information, please click the links below:

Candidate Briefing Pack

Enfield's Blue and Green Strategy

Enfield Council Plan

For a confidential discussion contact: Priyesh Bhadressa on and email: or Pete John on and email:

Closing date: Midnight, Wednesday 15th May 2024



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