Climate and Nature Emergency Project Manager

How you’ll make a difference

You will make a difference by developing and managing partnership and delivery projects as part
of the Council’s response to the Climate and Nature Emergency.

The Council and our partners are working together to scale up and accelerate new programmes and
projects to deliver nature recovery, improve adaption and resilience to the changing climate,
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For the initial 2 years, you will be responsible for an
exciting new partnership programme focussed on nature recovery across the Lower Severn Vales of
South Gloucestershire. Join our team and play your part in this vital work.

What will you be doing?

• In the role you will work with services across the council, partners, local communities and
  contractors, to develop, manage and deliver work priorities and projects of the councils
  Climate and Nature Emergency Action Plan.
• You will be responsible for project development, management and delivery, including budget
  management, procurement, monitoring and reporting back to funders, as well as acting as the
  councils point of contact for projects.
• Working closely with partners, you will be responsible for project monitoring and
  evaluation, including achieving and tracking project milestones, preparing project
  communications and ensuring that elected Members, officers, partners, and funders are briefed
  and kept updated on progress.
• In the role you will be required to keep abreast of national and sub regional policy issues
  and changes, and represent the Council at Officer level.
• You can expect to prepare reports for decisions and make presentations to Council,
  Committee, Officer, and external meetings and to share and present project learning and outputs
  through local, regional and national networks and forums.

What we need from you

• It is essential that you hold a relevant professional environmental qualification or
  equivalent and have equivalent relevant professional experience in policy/strategy development,
  project management and partnership working.
• We require you to have a thorough understanding and experience of the application of
  relevant policy and practice in relation to carbon management, renewable energy and climate
  resilience.
• You must have the ability to analyse, interpret and communicate complex data and technical
  information and recommend appropriate courses of action.
• It is important that you have experience of planning and managing multidisciplinary
  projects and project teams of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to work
  collaboratively to facilitate and bring about change
• A requirement is for you to have excellent written and verbal communication skills with
  ability to explain complex information to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• It is essential that you are able to organise and facilitate successful meetings and
  events, be well organised and self-motivated, with ability to cope with competing demands,
  identifying priorities, and working to targets and deadlines.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer
genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life
balance. 

We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are
recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and
development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

What’s
special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.

We
recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great
place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected,
promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South
Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and
learn here. 

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of 
• We’re planning for the future; by investing in natures recovery, active travel, public
  transport, schools, green and blue infrastructure and renewable energy. 
• We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe well
  maintained and resilient to a changing climate.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to
make a difference. 

We’re making a difference, be part of it! Interviews to be held via Microsoft Teams on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd July 2024