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30407 - Growth Strategy and Place Manager
| Posting date: | 14 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £66,301 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 March 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 30407 |
Summary
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it, and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities, and our environment.
In Planning and Place we coordinate action and investment to protect nature and enhance community well-being, leading efforts in sustainable growth and planning policy. We influence the spatial planning framework to ensure that it supports protects the environment, is mindful of future environmental capacity, working with government, regulators, other arms length bodies, and non-government organisations.
We have a fantastic post available within Planning and Place as the Growth Strategy and Place Manager who will lead on our strategy for ensuring the inclusion of environmental and nature priorities in the delivery of growth. You will also provide strategic leadership across a number of high-profile work areas.
We work with government departments on the design and delivery of their growth policies and lead the delivery and implementation of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies programme. This is a time of organisational change, and you will lead the transformation of how we deliver effectively within places.
This role will play an active role on the Leadership Team for the E&B Planning and Place section of the EA.
Please read the Additional Information Pack for more information about this post. We are also recruiting a Planning Advice manager within Planning and Place as part of the same recruitment.
These posts are part of a wider Nature and Place Manager recruitment campaign. More information can be found in the Additional Information Pack.
The team
You’ll join our Planning and Place Team within the Environment & Business Directorate.
We lead on sustainable places and integrated environmental and spatial planning; technical leadership to EA Operations; and workforce planning for Sustainable Places.
There are 3 teams that make up Planning and Place:
- Growth strategy and programmes
- Planning advice
- Planning service transformation and delivery
While geographically dispersed, we excel at remote collaboration.
Experience/skills required
We’re looking for a motivated and innovative leader with:
- Proven experience in delivering complex programmes of work, including the ability to influence others to deliver our outcomes
- Leadership and management experience and the ability to inspire and empower your team.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to engage diverse stakeholders, from senior leaders to policymakers.
- A commitment to innovation, exploring new opportunities to deliver positive change for the environment and help drive growth.
- A keen understanding of the political context, and the ability to understand the role of the organisation in the delivery of growth.
- Experience or understanding of managing programme finances, ideally including government spending processes.
See the Additional Information Pack for more information about Experiences and Skills required.
In Planning and Place we coordinate action and investment to protect nature and enhance community well-being, leading efforts in sustainable growth and planning policy. We influence the spatial planning framework to ensure that it supports protects the environment, is mindful of future environmental capacity, working with government, regulators, other arms length bodies, and non-government organisations.
We have a fantastic post available within Planning and Place as the Growth Strategy and Place Manager who will lead on our strategy for ensuring the inclusion of environmental and nature priorities in the delivery of growth. You will also provide strategic leadership across a number of high-profile work areas.
We work with government departments on the design and delivery of their growth policies and lead the delivery and implementation of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies programme. This is a time of organisational change, and you will lead the transformation of how we deliver effectively within places.
This role will play an active role on the Leadership Team for the E&B Planning and Place section of the EA.
Please read the Additional Information Pack for more information about this post. We are also recruiting a Planning Advice manager within Planning and Place as part of the same recruitment.
These posts are part of a wider Nature and Place Manager recruitment campaign. More information can be found in the Additional Information Pack.
The team
You’ll join our Planning and Place Team within the Environment & Business Directorate.
We lead on sustainable places and integrated environmental and spatial planning; technical leadership to EA Operations; and workforce planning for Sustainable Places.
There are 3 teams that make up Planning and Place:
- Growth strategy and programmes
- Planning advice
- Planning service transformation and delivery
While geographically dispersed, we excel at remote collaboration.
Experience/skills required
We’re looking for a motivated and innovative leader with:
- Proven experience in delivering complex programmes of work, including the ability to influence others to deliver our outcomes
- Leadership and management experience and the ability to inspire and empower your team.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to engage diverse stakeholders, from senior leaders to policymakers.
- A commitment to innovation, exploring new opportunities to deliver positive change for the environment and help drive growth.
- A keen understanding of the political context, and the ability to understand the role of the organisation in the delivery of growth.
- Experience or understanding of managing programme finances, ideally including government spending processes.
See the Additional Information Pack for more information about Experiences and Skills required.