Environment and Sustainability Manager-Fixed Term Contract/Secondment until April 2024 Birmingham, England
Job description
Grade:Grade-8
Salary:£44,310-£48,546
Closing Date-24th February 2023
Fixed Term Contract until April 2024
Job Description:
Background
West Midlands Police has recently adopted its first Environmental Strategy and has stated its ambition to be Net Zero Carbon by 2035. The strategy encompasses a wide programme of work across property, fleet, estate management, procurement, governance and workforce engagement.
The role of Environment and Sustainability Manager is central to the coordination and delivery of the Force’s environmental ambitions and leads on delivery of the environmental strategy across the business.
The Role
The successful applicant will work collaboratively to drive forward the ambitions of the Environmental Strategy and lead the Force Environmental Working Group. The role requires the ability to engage, influence and work cross-functionally to deliver successful organisational change and improve environmental performance.
Responsibilities:
The primary requirements for the role are:
- Leading on the organisational transformation required to enable West Midlands Police to meet the challenges imposed by climate change by ensuring delivery of the environmental strategy and environmental policy development
- Leading the Force Environmental Working Group
- Development and coordination of environmental champions network and internal communications/campaigns
- Continually seeking innovation and improvements to processes to meet environmental and sustainability objectives
- Coordinating engagement with and influencing the behaviour of staff and officers across the business at all levels
- Representing the Environmental Strategy at a senior level with Force Executive Team
- Leading West Midlands Police's journey to Carbon Net Zero
- Leading and coordinating the journey towards environmental accreditation
- Supporting any bids for environmental sustainability funding
- Providing meaningful performance information
- Providing environmental advice in relation to West Midlands Police activities e.g. building projects, electric vehicle strategy development, utilities management, waste management, sustainable procurement
- To support mitigations against environmental risk by leading on continual improvement of processes and procedures e.g. pollution prevention and control
Skills and Competencies:
Essential:
- A degree level professional qualification and proven ability to deliver environmental and sustainability performance improvements
- Ability to effectively influence, lead, develop and implement change
- Proven ability to devise and implement new working practices, policies, procedures and reporting to improve environmental compliance
- A strong knowledge and understanding of current best practice with subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas – environmental management, carbon/energy management, waste management, sustainable procurement, engagement and behaviour change.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders and customers at all levels
- Ability and experience to successfully manage and deliver projects
- Proven ability to deliver results through people and to lead performance
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure with competing demands
Desirable:
- Professional Qualification in Environmental Management
- Up to date knowledge of current legislation, regulations, guidance and publications
- Previous employment experience in a large and complex organisation
- Experience of managing external consultants and contracts
- Good working knowledge of business operating and supply procedures
Secondment Statements:
Secondment Policy: (paragraph 7.3)
For the duration of the secondment, you will be paid at the appropriate rate for the role that you are seconded into. In general terms, the expectation is that this will be the bottom spinal column point for the appropriate grade, as per our standard recruitment process.
The only exception to this is where you are seconded to a role of the same grade, in which case your substantive spinal column point should continue to be paid. Where you or your manager feel that you have relevant skills and experience for the role which would require consideration of a higher spinal column point, a salary justification form will need to be completed and sent to the Reward Team for review and consideration in line with usual recruitment processes.
If you are seconded into a role of a lower grade than your substantive post, you will receive the maximum spinal column point for that grade. Shift allowances and payments for unsociable or weekend working will only be paid as applicable to the role that you are seconded into (at the applicable rate). In other words, if you receive shift allowance in your substantive role, however the role that you are seconded into doesn’t attract a shift allowance you will not receive this for the duration of the secondment.
To view the full Secondment Policy please visit: https://es-one-stop-shop.custhelp.com/app/hubs/policy#acting_up
If you are considering applying for this secondment opportunity, please discuss it with your line manager to ensure that you will be released from your current role, should you be successful.
Hours/Location:
Mon-Friday flexible working 36.5 hours
Base - Lloyd House / Logistics Centre Perry Barr / Hybrid
Vetting:
Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Interviews:
Interviews to take place on the 3rd March 2023
Contact:
For further information please contact Jemma Hodgson [email protected]
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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