AddressGrade J/K
Salary: £35,745
to £40,221
Contract: Permanent
Location: North
Yorkshire.
Due to a vacant post, we are recruiting to a Climate
Change Business Partner role within the Climate Change team.
The Climate Change Business Partner: Resources role is a
full time officer to support the Resources Directorate to implement the Climate
Change Strategy. This role will lead on Green House Gas accounting, supporting
Property and Fleet decarbonisation plans for the Council and improving our
approach to scope 3 decarbonisation. Supporting
community-based activity in the geographical patch of Scarborough and Ryedale
is also included.
Our Service
The Climate Change team currently includes a manager, 4
Business Partners and a project officer. We enable the delivery of the North
Yorkshire Council Climate Change Strategy through both ambitions for North
Yorkshire Council to become operationally net zero by 2030 and for the wider
remit of York and North Yorkshire to become carbon negative by 2040. The three
key delivery themes of the Strategy are Mitigation, Adaptation and Supporting
Nature.
The role
You will work as part of the
Council’s Climate Change team supporting delivery of the Climate Change
Strategy. The role is outposted to a Directorate and requires close working
with service colleagues in development of service-based Climate Change action plans
and associated delivery of those actions. You will be assisting with developing
business cases, funding applications to help services deliver their Climate Change
actions, proactively supporting outcomes through coordinating Directorate
climate action plans, and feeding in these plans and results to the wider
Climate Change team to help deliver the wider Council’s overall Climate Change
Strategy.
What you will bring
You will have degree or graduate
capability and have broad knowledge of Climate Change and its impact. You will
have good understanding of Climate Change mitigation and adaptation activity
broadly. You will have experience of managing and advising on a Climate Change
related project, experience of action planning delivery and experience of
working across a range of service areas, engaging with service leads, managers
and local communities. You will have IT skills and ability to interpret and
analyse data.
Working
for us
When
you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as
part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34
days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension:
save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with
a 18.5% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various
Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and save £££. Lifestyle
Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across
hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. Plus lots
more…
Supporting Documents
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/total-rewards
Job Description
Contact and Apply
If you
would like to learn more about our opportunity, we recommend contacting Jos
Holmes, Climate Change Strategy Manager jos.holmes@northyorks.gov.uk or mobile 07929848259 prior to applying.
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Key Dates
Closing date: 24th March 2024
Interview date: 9th April 2024.
NYC
are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor
services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have
a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding
and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all
staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is
to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of
North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a
diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences
and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise
each other’s contributions, we therefore welcome applications from individuals
of all backgrounds.
Interviews
will be held in person in Malton, North Yorkshire.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk*
