Closing Date: November 26, 2024
Salary: £33,949
Contract Type: Paid
Region: Groundwork Greater Manchester
ROLE SUMMARY
As the Natural Environment Programme Manager, you’ll be creating vibrant, resilient landscapes through leading and managing exciting projects focused on river restoration, natural flood management and biodiversity enhancement, shaping the future of our green and blue spaces.
Collaborating with landowners and stakeholders across Greater Manchester, programmes currently include:
* The Irwell Catchment Partnership and its pipeline of projects
* Harnessing the power of nature-based solutions to improve water quality and climate resilience, e.g., developing water management plans with landowners
* Designing and testing financial mechanisms to promote sustainable land use
* Restoring river valleys, creating wetland habitats, and implementing natural flood management solutions
JOIN THE GROUNDWORK TEAM
We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny, and no one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:
* Community engagement
* Landscape design & build
* Training & coaching for employment
* Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
* Safe & sustainable business support
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork, we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children, and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people, and adults at risk.
Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing, and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people, and adults.
If you want to work in a values-driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please complete the forms below, ensuring you use the Job Description to carefully outline why you think you are suitable for this post.
We request that you complete our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Monitoring Form. If you prefer not to share this information, every question has a “prefer not to say” option which we would encourage you to use. Any information collected is used only for the purposes of monitoring the implementation of our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy and procedures during recruitment and selection. The information is not used in any way to inform the shortlisting process. Data is held securely and is not provided to any member of the selection panel.
Please send these documents to gmrecruitment@groundwork.org.uk and title the email ‘Natural Environment Programme Manager’.
Should you require assistance with any aspect of the application process, please contact us in advance so that we can agree on reasonable adjustments that we can put in place for you. For this, or to discuss any questions you may have about the role, please contact Michaela.howell@groundwork.org.uk.
Closing date: 9am 26th November 2024.
Interviews: Tuesday 10th December 2024 at Trafford Ecology Park.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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