Parks and Greenspaces Manager

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming
with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for
each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the
“rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling
discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a
huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational
values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us
looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for
all of our residents.

About the role

Are you an established parks professional looking for your next challenge? If so you may well be
interested in the role of Parks and Greenspaces Manager here in Haringey, North London. The
role will oversee a large operational inhouse service which encompasses a range of important
parks such as the iconic Finsbury Park through to smaller but no less important sheltered
housing sites. Haringey has always been at the cutting edge of making a difference and this
could be the perfect opportunity for you to shape and help define the parks and greenspace
services in Haringey. Building on the innovative Parks and Greenspaces Strategy adopted last
year you can be at the heart of helping us deliver our key vision “That Haringey’s parks and
greenspaces become fully inclusive shared spaces that deliver our key aims of inclusion and
wellbeing, climate change, biodiversity and sustainability and a quality service” You will be
supported by an experienced management team and committed workforce and have lots of
opportunities to shape the service as part of the wider Parks and Leisure offer in the borough.

About the team

The team is broken down into three key areas Parks, Greenspace and Amenity Services. The Parks
team deliver across 58 parks (22 of which are Green Flag Parks) and a range of smaller open
spaces. The Greenspace team deliver the grounds maintenance service to the housing estates
across the borough. The Amenity Services team provide a range of specialist’s services
including Arboriculture, Landscape, Play maintenance, Invasive Species Management, plant
production and gang mowing. Overall the team is made up of 93 staff. You will be responsible
for an operational expenditure budget of over £5m a year and will be responsible for generating
an income of £3.6m per annum.

About you

The Council is looking for an established parks professional who has demonstrable track record
of managing a large operational service. The candidate will need to show that they have
appropriate knowledge and skill to be able to maximise the resources they have to deliver a
safe, well trained, consistent, well managed service within the budget parameters set for the
service. You will be a good communicator able to work in partnership with stakeholders, other
service areas and elected members. You should have experience of planning and implementing
service improvements that delivery tangible outcomes for staff and service users. Parks should
be your passion and you should be able to motivate a range of people to achieve the best
possible outcomes.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel
valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse
workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to
make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave
entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and
wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes
across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.