Job Title: Head of Environment
Location: Norwich
Salary: Salary up to £78,917 and relocation up to £10,000
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Location – County Hall, Norwich (With flexible working)
We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 928,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 83 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.
The role
We are looking for a Head of Environment to lead our Environmental Strategy in Norfolk, you’ll lead a significant number of nationally-important programmes and projects and play a pivotal role in maintaining Norfolk’s reputation as a wonderful place to live, work and visit.
This is an exciting, varied, and dynamic role due to the unique combination of environmental characteristics Norfolk is blessed with, including its dynamic coastline and the Norfolk Coast AONB, its rich and varied biodiversity, and the world-famous Broads National Park.
The job role with involve providing expert insight and guidance to our Executive Leadership Team and senior managers as well as partners across the public, private, and voluntary sectors, driving forward a broad range of development programmes.
Ideal candidate
- Experienced Leader with an environmental background or knowledge
- Adept at working in a political organisation and understand the complexities, challenges and benefits this brings
- Experience in managing a team and ensuring they continue to achieve great things; maintaining Norfolk’s track record of leading major international projects and developing innovative new approaches to safeguard nature for current and future generations.
Benefits
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, remote and hybrid working
- Generous re-location package (Up to £10,000)
- The opportunity to play a vital part in maintaining Norfolk’s reputation as a wonderful place to live, work and visit.
- Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
Norfolk is a great place to live and work offering the perfect balance for you and your family. With more than 90 miles of unspoilt coastline and the unique Broads National Park, our thriving communities live and work in rural settings, busy market towns, seaside resorts, and in the city of Norwich. Norwich has an international airport, and direct train lines run to London from Norwich and King’s Lynn, with Cambridge also in easy travelling distance from the County.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Director of Environmental Services, Environmental Manager, Chief Sustainability Officer, Environmental Policy Director, Head of Environmental Planning and Development, Sustainability and Climate Change Manager, Environmental Operations Director, Green Initiatives Director, Chief Conservation Officer, Director of Ecological Services, Environmental Compliance Manager, Climate Action Coordinator, Natural Resources Director, Chief Resilience Officer may also be considered for this role.
