Head of Environment and Sustainability Leader

3 weeks ago

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom undisclosed Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to join our team as the Head of Environment and Sustainability. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for leading our efforts in sustainability and environmental services. Your primary focus will be on climate change, decarbonization, and nature recovery, but the role may evolve to include other environmental services such as waste and recycling, environmental health, food safety, and licensing.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide strategic leadership and direction for environment and sustainability services to provide specialist and focused project delivery towards a climate action and nature recovery work programme and to identify priorities, agree objectives, and establish measures of success.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs, priorities, and challenges to build strong relationships, effective communication, and collaboration on environmental and sustainability-related initiatives.
  • Lead the development of policies and initiatives that address our aspirations for environmental sustainability.
  • Oversee day-to-day operations, managing workloads, budgets, and resources to ensure teams meet performance objectives.
  • Drive continuous improvement across teams, encouraging innovation, collaboration, and excellence in service delivery.
  • Act as our principal advisor on environmental and sustainability matters, ensuring effective communication and representation in governance matters.
Requirements:
  • To be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant profession.
  • Substantial (5 years plus) post-qualification experience in a relevant field/specialism.
  • Significant experience managing services during periods of organizational change.
  • Experience of collaborative working to enable delivery of our waste and environmental ambitions.
  • Experience of large complex environmental service contracts.
  • Experience of working in a political diverse environment.
  • Experience of implementing change, transformation, and monitoring service performance and delivering improvements.
  • Ability to inspire and successfully motivate others towards shared objectives.
  • Experience in preparing, negotiating, and managing budgets.
What We Offer:
  • Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working.
  • Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role).
  • 26 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part-time) plus bank holidays, which increases to 30 days after five years of service.
  • In addition, you will have an extra two volunteering days a year for you to support a charity of your choice.
  • We support a discretionary Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental, and eye care.
  • Generous contributory local government pension scheme.
  • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative, and supportive advice and counseling to deal with everyday events and issues.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with significant tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars.
  • Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements.

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