Time left to apply: End Date: December 2, 2024 (15 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: JR4531
Closing Date: 2024-12-02
Job Title: Sustainability Lead
Location: Falmer - Hybrid - 3 office or sites / 2 WFH - driving licence essential
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
We are currently recruiting for a Sustainability Lead, a pivotal role to deliver our transformation programme within the Environment plus (E+) team. In this key role, you will be responsible for effecting change within operational teams, building an organisational culture of trust, change awareness & acceptance to ensure change initiatives are sustained. Your role will be integral in ensuring change initiatives are closely aligned with the business objectives of compliance, efficiency and customer and utilise a range of change techniques to drive sustainable change including feedback loops to ensure a "plan do review" approach is followed. You will be working closely with Implementation Managers to ensure initiatives, programmes and projects have been reviewed for change readiness and change plans are in place.
Your key accountabilities will include:
* Using a range of engagement techniques / touch points to ensure change initiatives are aligned to key business priorities and ensure buy-in from key stakeholders from Area Managers through to frontline field teams.
* Building a change management programme for initiatives and plans to include robust and comprehensive communication plans, monitoring and ensuring these plans are delivered.
* Working closely with the Benefits Business Analyst to address variance, understand reasons for non-sustainable change and instigate plans to address the cultural elements of this.
* Mentor seconded operators from frontline teams to carry out Operator practical assessment and hands-on training for competent operator programmes.
* Proactively partner with the technical training manager to ensure training for new working practices & processes are incorporated into existing training programmes.
To be successful in this role, you will have strong proficiency in change management with a good background in project management, ideally with an exposure of embedding change post transition stage. You will be a confident communicator with excellent relationship building skills and ability to influence to achieve the desired change. Proven tenacity to work at pace with deadlines with a balance of being flexible to accommodate changing demands of work is highly desirable for this role. You will ideally have experience of change management techniques such as ADKAR / Kotter, Lean, six sigma, Root cause analysis (CAST / Bowtie) with project / change Management qualifications (PMP, APM).
Interested? Why not apply?
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Need flexibility in your work?
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
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