What's involved with this role: Interim Environmental Service Director Reference no: Wakefield 0009 75EF / 1 Pay Rate: £357.00 per day PAYE 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: WAKEFIELD Standard DBS disclosure required Hybrid - needs to ideally be local, this person will need to be in office 3 days a week - experience should be someone from local authority background who has ideally worked within Street scene, Waste Management, Highways, etc and has also managed big contracts such as PFI if possible. Reporting to the Corporate Director Regeneration, Environment and Economic Growth the role will be the Council lead for all waste related services and contracts, fleet management and transport operations, countryside management and the maintenance of the street scene for example. This also includes being the lead for the Council’s operational depots. Key Responsibilities: Supporting, developing, promoting and maintaining constructive multi-agency working to ensure the Council can deliver its priorities, overall aims and objectives ensuring the delivery of high quality services that focus on the needs of local people. Specific responsibility and accountability for managing the on-going contractual relationship with the Council’s waste management PFI partner, to ensure that all aspects of the Waste PFI contract are managed appropriately and that national and local targets relating to waste minimisation and recycling are met, including full compliance with regard to all associated legislation. Be a Nominated Responsible Officer on the Council’s Transport Services Operator Licence Work with colleagues across the Council to provide services which deliver sustainable improvements to the environment. Take opportunities to explore and deliver effective partnership working where benefits to improved service delivery can be identified. Knowledge: Knowledge of Waste collection, recycling and disposal at a scale similar to that of the Wakefield District Knowledge on compliance with Operator Licence requirements. Understanding of how to deliver operational services with the lowest environmental impact. Excellent understanding of both contract and relationship management including negotiating. Detailed understanding of business needs on a national, regional and local level and how to meet them in Wakefield. Thorough understanding of partnership working to enable positive outcomes. Excellent understanding of good governance principles. Experience: Significant experience of Environmental legislation and in a field related to Environment based services including specifically waste management. Significant experience of successful management of teams of diverse professionals to achieve high performance targets and corporate objectives in complex environments. Proven track record of successful leadership. Skills & Abilities: Highest level of interpersonal skills and communication skills to establish positive relationships and engage with a wide range of stakeholders that generate confidence and trust. The ability to influence and negotiate to establish credibility an enhance relationships for positive outcomes. Ability to employ a range of leadership styles which focus on achieving results in terms of outcomes for managers and customers. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please