Programme Manager Waste Strategy WCC616979

Job title:

Programme Manager Waste Strategy WCC616979

Company

NHS

Job description

Job Details:Salary range: £53,109 – £59,220 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 24 months
Closing date: 8 September 2024
Contact details for an informal discussion: Amanda Chandler, Strategic Delivery Lead via email atAbout Us:THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE’S PASSION AND DEDICATIONThe Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco-friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer in the Climate Emergency team, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss.Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens’ Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The Assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we’re holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision-making.To see the work of the Westminster Citizens’ Climate Assembly, click .The Role:As the Programme Manager for Waste Strategy, Recycling and Clean Streets you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. The Waste and Cleansing Team delivers key services to the residents and businesses of Westminster including commercial and domestic waste collection and disposal, recycling and street cleansing. With an annual value of around £57 million, it is one of the biggest contracts within the Council, and you’ll work to deliver the future direction of these services across the city.We’ve recently established a new programme team to develop a new strategy and re-procure the Waste and Cleansing service. This work is being undertaken in advance of the end of the current contract in September 2027, and will be an opportunity to align future delivery requirements to a new strategic direction. You’ll work with the team and wider Council officers to ensure the programme enables us to fully understand and meet the present and future needs of our service users, who include visitors, communities and businesses. You’ll take a holistic, community-based approach to your work, one which considers health and wellbeing inequalities across the borough and the ways in which we can address these.You’ll work with the team to balance the approach against consideration of value for money and wider opportunities and risks, and maintain a strong focus on reducing the impact of waste on the environment in line with our ambition to be a net zero city by 2040. Your success will require positive programme management as you define the steps required to meet the programme’s objectives, and manage the team’s progress, risks and governance. With responsibility for supporting the programme board, key work streams and some matrix management of officers and external consultants, you’ll also focus on engaging with our stakeholders, including residents, businesses and Council officers, to ensure the programme meets their needs.Please refer to the for more information.About You:With a track record of successfully leading and managing complex cross-functional projects and programmes, you’ll be capable of drawing on and developing expertise and evidence to support the design and implementation of new approaches. You should have well developed experience of using project and programme management products and processes to deliver tangible outcomes, and be capable of matrix managing internal and external teams to achieve objectives.

Skilled at applying careful analysis and lateral thinking to develop strategies and solutions as you scope and progress outcome-based programme delivery, you’ll possess the political awareness to support the management of our stakeholders’ priorities and needs. A proactive problem solver with the skills to identify gaps and solutions and bring clarity to complex situations, you’ll also be ready to use your organisational and political agility to navigate varying degrees of ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.Your superb communication and interpersonal skills will see you building excellent relationships with a diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders, and your attention to detail will allow you to work accurately and quickly get to grips with large volumes of information. Committed to working flexibly to get the job done, and capable of working effectively with a small team, you’ll be ready to foster an environment that supports collaboration, openness and transparency, and have the ability to interpret complex information and insights clearly.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.What We Offer: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 visitAs 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.

Expected salary

£53109 – 59220 per year

Location

Westminster, South West London

Job date

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:23:53 GMT

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