Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Working Hours: Full Time, Hours per week - 37
Appointment Type: Permanent
Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 8RJ
Reference: ET1116
Closing date: 6 March 2023 at midnight
Salary Range: £50,454 - £55,614
Leicestershire County Council has made a commitment to reduce our own carbon emissions to net zero by 2030 and to achieve net zero across Leicestershire by 2045. We’ve already made good progress – we’ve reduced our carbon emissions by more than 70% since 2009. To help us achieve our goal, we are recruiting a Team Manager for Carbon Reduction. You will be working with colleagues across the organisation and with partners to deliver our Net Zero Strategy and Action Plan.
As well as having current technical knowledge, we’re looking for someone who works well with other people and can use their influence to get things done.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree in an appropriate subject or equivalent qualification
- Contributing to the development of high-quality policies and strategies in order to achieve the strategic outcomes of an organisation.
- Successful management and delivery of projects, including experience of resolving organisational and cross-cutting service issues.
- Successfully working in partnership with key stakeholders across the public, private and voluntary sectors to deliver outputs and outcomes particularly at a senior and strategic level.
- Build powerful relationships across stakeholders, peers and partners, creating open and transparent relationships based on trust.
For informal enquires please contact Vicky Cormie, Tel: 0116 305 7291 Email: Vicky.Cormie@leics.gov.uk
Leicestershire County Council is committed to Smarter Working and understands the benefits of supporting employees to manage their work and life balance, whilst meeting the needs of the service.
We are supportive of flexible working and candidates who wish to discuss this should contact Vicky Cormie (recruiting manager) to discuss what is possible for this role. Examples may include requests for flexible working patterns, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/ remote working etc.
Please apply using our online system sending us your CV as well as a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words and be incorporated into your CV, to form a single document.
Please see the link below to Environment and Transport’s web pages for further information about the department, working for Leicestershire County Council and the job opportunities available. The web pages also contain CV Guidance documents for Applicants to read and use.
https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/jobs-and-volunteering/working-for-the-council/working-in-environment-and-transport
Equality and diversity is everyone’s business. Here at the council, we’ve been building on strong foundations since achieving ‘excellent’ status in 2011 under the Equality Framework for Local Government. We have a corporate Equalities Board, supported by departmental equality groups and also our staff groups for Black, Asian and Multi Ethnic Staff, Disabled Workers, LGBT+ and Carers. We believe that a strong, diverse workforce will bring together different perspectives and ideas. To find out more please click here.
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