Climate Action Strategic Lead

**What's involved with this role**:
**Ref number**: Islington RQ1400718**

**_Hybrid working, Office-Based 2 days per week currently, with homeworking other days_**

**_A Basic DBS is required for this role_**

The Climate Action Strategic Lead will be developing climate adaptation and resilience strategies and projects. They will take personal responsibility to work very closely with senior responsible officers across a range of teams to develop and deliver Islington's climate adaptation programme and turn emerging proposals from the Islington Climate Panel into reality. They will work with passion, energy and drive, whilst working with a significant degree of autonomy.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop an effective workstream management framework which will allow the whole suite of projects to be viewed as an integrated whole, and within which partners can develop detailed and consistent project plans (while being mindful of the need for effort to be proportional to the scale of each partner’s project).
- Leading the coordination of work stream delivery teams and working closely with work stream directors to plan and shape requirements of the delivery teams.
- Establish mechanisms to actively manage work stream and programme dependencies in partnership with other Climate Action Strategic Leads.
- Plan and monitor climate action budget allocation and spend in partnership with workstream leads and Finance.
- Complete reporting for steering board, executive board and scrutiny committee in partnership with work stream leads and directors.
- Develop and maintain work stream benefit plans that help contribute to delivery of climate action targets.
- Implementing consistent governance standards across the assigned work streams including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of deliverables.
- Develop, own and implement work stream plans, seeking contributions from key stakeholders.
- Working closely with multiple project delivery managers operating within assigned work streams to develop and establish a coordinated approach to reporting, managing the governance process, managing risks and interdependencies.

**Qualifications**:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of concepts, methods, tools and techniques to support the design and delivery of real and lasting change - and the ability to deploy them in practice.
- Knowledge and awareness of local government finances, commercial issues and business case development.
- Knowledge and awareness of current and future practices and developments relating to climate change.
- Knowledge and experience of climate adaptation and resilience

**Experience**:

- Previous experience in developing and delivering environmental/climate related strategies and programmes.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Specific skills or experience in change management disciplines, qualitative or user-focused research, data analysis and visualisation, and public affairs and policy.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that are convincing, persuasive and adaptable to a range of audiences.
- An excellent and well established track record of project management, including the production of project plans

**Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.**

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