We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as an Environment & Climate Team Manager in Environment Waste & Traded Service
The is the perfect time to join St Helens and become part of our exhilarating journey and help build our legacy for the future. Now more than ever, we need to drive innovative change across our services, enabling the Council to take the next step in delivering its ambitious agenda and adapting collectively to a changing world and achieve our carbon zero goals.
This is a key role in the Environment and Operations team, to help lead the development and delivery of our Openspaces Strategy, Resources and waste strategy and other environmental strategies to enable the Council to become carbon net zero. This role will be involved in leading, commissioning, procuring, specifying and co-ordinating a range of services focusing on the delivery and change.
This role requires experience in effective team and project management, in a busy, constantly moving environment with multiple responsibilities, you must have proven team management skills and the ability to develop your staff. The ability to maintain strong professional relationships with other departments is also a must for this post.
The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues to lead forward and develop new and innovative ways of working to ensure that we provide an efficient service delivery model. You will have robust leadership and management skills and the ability to work in a politically sensitive environment.
We would welcome applications from innovative individuals who are able to take the lead in the management of change and who have a demonstrable record of influencing and negotiation, as well as ensuring that outcomes are being delivered to the quality and standard that is expected.
Degree, professional qualification or equivalent through experience in the Climate Waste/Environment fields, managing professional & technical staff, including personnel matters, proven track record of significant knowledge of environmental sector, knowledge of Environmental legislation and policies relating to Openspaces and Climate are all essential for this post.
It is desirable the post holder has specialist technical experience in relation to the Openspaces/Climate and delivering environmental strategies in a local authority context.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information plus Equalities & Diversity information when you click on Apply below.
For an informal discussion, please contact Andy Cutts, Head of Climate, Waste and Openspaces on 07753 274443 or AndyCutts@sthelens.gov.uk.
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
