Head of Nature (12 month FTC)
| Posting date: | 28 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £124,653 to £146,650 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2025 |
| Location: | London, London, EC2N 1HZ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 130494_1740730836 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Head of Nature (12-month FTC)
SALARY: £124,653 - £146,650
LOCATION(S): London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least
two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
This is a fixed term contract opportunity to bring your leadership experience, strong external network and technical expertise on nature to Lloyds Banking Group where you'll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions!
About this opportunity
As the Head of Nature you'll be the Group's technical specialist on nature-related topics. Your role will be critical in both shaping the Group-wide approach, while also being an excellent collaborator with business and functions in the delivery of key initiatives.
You'll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of Lloyds Banking Group and plays an important role in enabling Lloyds Banking Group's purpose ambitions and activities which are critical to the delivery of the Group's strategy and helping Britain Prosper. These include defining the ambitions and enablement actions across key areas such as affordable homes, financial empowerment, regional development, transition to net zero and protecting nature.
Day to day, you will:
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Providing guidance to the Group on the assessment and management of nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities and recommending and mobilising an internal approach to ensure continued alignment with external frameworks
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Maintaining excellent relationships with key partners across the Group to collaborate on developing and mobilising our nature-related propositions, including our approach to environmental markets and developing financing solutions for nature-based solutions
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Supporting our ongoing partnerships, such as Projects for Nature, Soil Association Exchange and the Woodland Trust, and contributing to the development of our strategies in this area, with other key partners across the Group, as well as developing an approach for new and emerging strategic partnerships on nature
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Translating emerging and existing external nature requirements and determining the impact on the Group's business models and business areas, as well as delivering innovative insights to the industry through an extensive external network
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Contributing to the development of the Group's capabilities on nature, by sharing your knowledge and expertise on key nature-related frameworks and expertise on the state of nature, pressures on nature and dependencies on ecosystem services with colleagues across all levels
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Leading, empowering and developing colleagues to help build a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you'll need:
We're looking for an individual with an outstanding level of technical depth on nature-related topics, credible external network and experience in leading high impact teams. We welcome specialism in select fields such as water management, soil quality and the climate-nature nexus. If this is you, we'd like to hear from you.
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Has a deep understanding of global, regional and national nature-related frameworks, policies and initiatives, such as the TNFD, Biodiversity Net Gain, the Environmental Improvement Plan, relevant components of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the CBD's Global Biodiversity Framework, and ability to effectively translate the impacts, risks and dependencies for the financial services industry
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Has experience in assessment and management of nature-related issues, including clear understanding of relevant data, metrics and interconnections between nature and climate and social issues and demonstrated ability to co-develop nature-related risk assessments, including nature-related scenarios and stress testing
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Has working knowledge of structuring new financial products that support nature recovery, such as biodiversity credits, nature-focussed funds, public-private partnerships on payments for ecosystem services, debt-for-nature swaps
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Has an exceptionally strong network and connectivity with leading external bodies and organisations such as TNFD, SBTN, IPBES, WBCSD, WEF, WWF and UNEP-FI
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Has a resilient leadership style with a genuine interest and authentic approach to navigating complex situations, with a proven track record of identifying, understanding and successfully leading senior level relationships.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
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Leading high impact teams with differing skills and demonstrating strong leadership, including working at pace with a clear sense of prioritisation
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Coaching to go faster by demonstrating dedication to building teams with skills aligned to strategy and creating new and better ways to embed change at pace
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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