Organisation: Leicestershire County CouncilWork Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RAWorker Category: Hybrid WorkerSalary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annumWorking Hours: 37 hours per weekContract Type: PermanentClosing Date: 17th November 2024Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 02nd December 2024An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Environment Policy & Strategy team to play a leading role in working with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders to take forward the Council's work on biodiversity and nature recovery.About the RoleAt the heart of the role is partnership working.
The role will require someone that can work well with others, building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and working relationships with a range of colleagues, partners and stakeholders, from the public, voluntary and private sectors.The role also involves managing a small team of professional staff as well as managing a range of projects.The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications and / or experience in the environmental field, and a proven ability to deliver projects and co-ordinate multiple responsibilities and tasks.Experience of bid writing, as well as securing and managing funded projects is important.The role will also involve developing strategic and policy documents as well as writing technical and non-technical reports and providing technical advice to a range of stakeholders, including senior managers and elected members.About YouTo apply for this post, you must: Have sound experience in collaborative working with internal and external partners and key stakeholders, and building positive relationships across peers, partners, and stakeholders, based on trust.
Have experience of successfully managing projects using a structured methodology.
Have a background in and understanding of the natural environment.
Have experience of managing, motivating and supporting a team with a diverse workload.
Be able to co-ordinate and interpret information and data from a range of sources, to support delivery of projects and enable effective communication.
Have excellent written, communication and presentation skills, including being able to produce high quality strategic documents as well as providing relevant, concise oral and written information to senior officers and external partners.
Be able to adapt to varying workloads and priorities, work to tight timescales and to agreed targets.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.Interested in Flexible Working?We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments.
Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.
If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.
This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work.
The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert.
You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:James O'BrienTeam Manager Environment Policy & Strategy0116 3057319 section on our career site.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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