Sustainability Programme Manager

Reference: WCC616891

Salary range: £53,109 - £59,220 per annum

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP

Hours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check 

Closing date: 7 July 2024

Contact details for Informal discussion: John Hamilton, Head of Sustainability and Data Insight, via email: JHAMILTON1@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK

 

At Westminster City Council, we don’t just listen to the voices and experiences of our residents – we listen to our people too. Tiffeny is a single mum whose young son has ADHD and before joining our team, she never thought she’d find a job that gave her flexibility and freedom to support her son’s needs. As a neurodivergent woman herself, she also never expected to be part of a team that not only supports her needs, but actively celebrates them – where people encourage her to be her true self. And that’s what she found here at the City of Westminster.

 

Working as an Engagement Officer Within the corporate property team means that she gets to meet people from all walks of life within the community supporting the development of positive change, especially being the voice for young people where it matters – in education, training, or employment. Her experiences and her amazing ability to relate to others means that within the first few months of joining our team, she’d already made a huge impact on things like accessibility in the Borough. Tiffeny feels heard and that’s because we know how important it is to listen.

As the Sustainability Programme Manager of our Sustainability and Data Insight team you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Leading energy Sustainability Programmes that support the key corporate objectives of our Climate Emergency Action Plan, it will be your task to develop projects for our property estate that contribute to our zero-carbon city plan, and then communicate and embed these across the Council.

Working with a range of stakeholders and services to develop bespoke performance measures that are regularly monitored, reported against and challenged, you’ll ensure that the investments we make have the maximum impact on the sustainability agenda. Leading a number of cross-cutting corporate initiatives, we’ll also expect you to drive continuous improvement within the team to ensure the service delivered is lean and of the highest quality.

Committed to developing relationships that embed a positive and collaborative mindset, you’ll provide inspirational guidance, advice and expertise on sustainability energy programmes across the service. In addition, you’ll monitor budgets, forecasts, actual expenditure, warranties and commercial agreements with suppliers and contractors, and ensure that all the necessary approvals are in place.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

With the ability to review and improve business processes, and deliver positive improvements across a service, you’ll be a confident team manager and have a good understanding of sustainability issues, policies and legislation. Capable of analysing financial and performance information, understanding business contexts and extracting key facts to deliver improvement and opportunities, you’ll also have advanced change, project and programme management skills.

An inspirational communicator with the ability to identify and resolve issues and problems at speed, you’ll be a strategic thinker with the confidence to challenge and influence the status quo. Skilled at translating strategic objectives into operational plans, you’ll also have a strong customer focus and be ready to apply advanced interpersonal skills to motivate, coach and develop the other members of your team to high levels of performance.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background, you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.

 

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

 

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

 

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

Contact details for Informal discussion: John Hamilton, Head of Sustainability and Data Insight, via email: JHAMILTON1@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK