Lead Project Managers (3 posts)

Our Environment Service has a well-established record of delivering effective partnership projects to meet our corporate priorities and support Norfolk County Council’s response to climate change through the Norfolk Environment Policy, and the Defra 25 Year Environment Plan. Our work is delivered through significant and high-profile partnerships with diverse stakeholders and the management of a complex mix of human and financial resources.

As the Lead Project Manager for one of three portfolios, you will ensure all initiatives under your remit adhere to a high standard of project management throughout the project life cycle and contribute to the evaluation and process improvement initiatives on completion. You will manage human and financial resources, oversee delivery and monitoring schedules and ensure effective and timely reporting to funding bodies and internal management groups.

Delivery, Active Travel - your portfolio will include; Greenways to Greenspaces - making connections for people and wildlife across the county; Active Travel - investing in local infrastructure projects that support the promotion of walking and cycling; MobiMix Escooters - for smoother and low-carbon transport in cities; Highway Corridors improving linear habitats on our Highways corridors estates; and Infrastructure repairs and maintenance - looking to maintain the infrastructure on our Norfolk trails networks and associated routes.

Delivery, Nature Recovery - your portfolio will include; 1 Million Trees - launched in 2020 to plant 1 million trees across Norfolk; Trees Outside Woodlands - to protect, improve and expand current tree, hedge and woodland populations to maximum environmental and health benefits; County Farms Review - strategies that challenge climate change such as wind farms, anaerobic digestion plants and other renewable energy sources; Wending Beck/Union Farm - nature restoration project delivering habitat creation, river restoration, social impact and regenerative agriculture; County Wildlife Sites - areas of land rich in wildlife and outside of the nationally protected areas; Roadside Nature Reserves - roadside verges that are individually managed to benefit plants and animals that live there.

Delivery – Visitor Economy - your portfolio will include; Experience - attract visitors through innovative ‘experiential tourism’; Prowad Link - working with businesses to recognise and value wildlife and landscape; Endure - €2.1m project establishing sand dunes as adaptive, living sea defences; Monument -  €472,545 trans-national technological and social innovation project to strengthen the resilience of informal carers of people living with dementia; Facet - encouraging businesses in the tourism sector to apply new sustainable revenue models.

With a proven record of project delivery and substantial programme management, you will have strong analytical skills and advanced Excel and data modelling skills. You will have a track record of managing a multi-disciplinary team at a senior level, in a similar role and understand external funding programmes to successfully secure sustainable funding. Your excellent communications skills will develop and manage relationships with stakeholders and partners, and your negotiation skills will deliver sound commercial outcomes.

At Norfolk County Council we put work life balance at the forefront and offer flexible, smarter working arrangements, all underpinned by leading edge technology. If you have a passion for conservation, protecting and enhancing natural and cultural heritage, coupled with excellent project management skills, this is the role for you.

All our office-based roles are currently working from home as part of our Smarter Working plans and to support the health and safety of all our colleagues. We anticipate that working remotely will be a key feature of this role and when offices re-open your office base will be County Hall, Norwich.  Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

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Closing date: 13 September 2021.

Interviews will take place via video technology, where you will have the opportunity to discuss these working arrangements.