AddressHours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Sustainable Communities
Department: Heritage Services
Are you passionate about museums and heritage whilst making a positive impact on the environment?
About the role
We are looking for a dedicated and innovative Sustainability Manager to lead our commitment to a greener and more sustainable future.
Heritage Services operate the Roman Baths, Fashion Museum, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath World Heritage Centre and Bath Record Office. It is a £22m turnover business, welcoming more than 1 million visitors a year, from around the world. However, we are not only a treasure trove of history; as we strive to maintain the legacy of the past, we recognise the urgent need to safeguard the future through sustainable practices.
As our Sustainability Manager, you will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing sustainable initiatives across the iconic sites and collections that we care for. You will work closely across the Service to improve our practices, reduce our carbon footprint, and engage our visitors and supporters in our conservation efforts.
This is a varied and diverse role, from supporting our facilities team develop a retrofit plan for our historic buildings, to working closely with Retail colleagues ensuring that our supply chain support our net zero goals and products are sustainably sourced; you will evolve the Services’ response to the climate and nature emergency and engage employees in the importance and urgency of work in this area.
This role will also join the Sustainability Managers Forum within the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). Through the development of partnerships with other major attractions, you will help us to make meaningful change across the Museum, Heritage and Tourism sector as a whole.
This is a crucial, strategic position for the Service and the right candidate has the opportunity to work in, and influence one of, the leading cultural sites and visitor businesses in the UK.
About You
You will bring proven experience in sustainability management, ideally within a heritage, cultural, or tourism setting, along with in-depth knowledge of environmental regulations and sustainability best practices.
Adaptable and flexible, you will be brilliant at engaging and motivating stakeholders, employees, and customers to actively support sustainability goals, as well as taking a cooperative approach to achieving organisational goals with other departments.
Your excellent communication skills will create meaningful, collaborative relationships across the Service. Your energy, drive and creative thinking will challenge and improve our environmental performance to make long-term change to the way we operate.
Why Bath and North East Somerset Council?
We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:
- A competitive salary package
- A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions including carer/sick pay
- The Local Government Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you, we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home.
- Career Development, professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
- Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including local attractions and cycle to work scheme
Your main place of work will be The Pump Rooms, Bath with hybrid working offered.
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Simon Addison on simon_addison@bathnes.gov.uk
To apply
Please use the online application facility.
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Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.
Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.
As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Interview Date:16th / 19th April 2024
Safeguarding Statement:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.
