Climate Action Strategic Lead

4 weeks ago


UK, UK, United Kingdom Vox Network Consultants Full time

Role Purpose

  • 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.


Responsibilities

  • Climate Action is a priority corporate programme with a council commitment to deliver net zero carbon by 2030. This programme directly supports the Council’s corporate priority
  • The Climate Action team, which consists of the Head of Service, three Strategic Leads and a performance officer, are responsible for working with the eight work streams that have been established to deliver the commitments set out in the Net Zero Carbon strategy.
  • The Strategic Lead will be assigned work streams that are large, complex and high stakes with programme wide significance and senior officer and/or member exposure.
  • The Strategic Lead will take personal responsibility to work very closely with work stream senior responsible officers to deliver the commitments and actions that support achievement of Islington’s climate action ambitions. They will work with passion, energy and drive, whilst working with a significant degree of autonomy.


Requirements

  • Experience of designing and implementing effective strategies.
  • Experience of leading or managing change projects.
  • Ability to think and act strategically – diagnosing challenges, designing responses, and leading coherent and coordinated actions.
  • Knowledge and awareness of local government finances, commercial issues and business case development.


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