We are expanding our Sustainability and Corporate Environment function to add a whole new team facing off to our operations businesses and we are looking for an experienced and energised environmental management leader to head up and build this new team.
This role provides huge scope to have real impact protecting and regenerating the environment in London, as well as making the capital sustainable for generations to come. Your team will be responsible for providing support across all our operational modes, including those directly operated and maintained by TfL as well as contracted services and our wider corporate operations. Learn more about TfL here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/
Your team will work to develop and embed our Corporate Environment Plan and environmental management system, ensuring that Transport for London (TfL) can move people safely, inclusively and sustainably across London. This is an exciting time to be joining an expanding team helping TfL reach our goal of being the strong, green heartbeat for London.
As well as, providing support and technical advice to our day-to-day operations and maintenance teams, your team of environment managers will provide environmental coaching, and be responsible for environmental improvement activity and management system development, monitoring and review. The role requires collaborative working with teams across TfL and externally, to improve TfL’s environmental and business performance.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide technical advice on environmental impacts to the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) directorate and to the wider business.
- Champion the TfL Corporate Environment Plan, by providing support and direction across the whole business. Support and challenge the business to deliver on activities to improve our corporate environmental performance in line with Plan. Help coordinate and track activities and progress against plans to ensure continued progress
- Ensure environmental risks are adequately captured and measured in SHE risk models.
- Support the development and ongoing improvement of TfL’s Environmental Management System, including assurance of the system
- Manage the development of environmental training interventions as needed to upskill colleagues across the business.
- Provide advice and input to other SHE teams and the business on environmental issues, including using performance data
- Provide environmental input to the procurement processes by developing contract clauses, assessing tenders, monitoring contractors’ performance.
- Define the standards of knowledge expected within the SHE advisers’/business partnering teams around our environmental impacts, legislation and activities and make sure this is reflected in skills, knowledge and experience frameworks.
- Lead staff and build a culture of coaching and development across the team, ensuring the development of staff succession plans, identification of skills needs and securing appropriate training and development. Ensure the right behaviours cascade within the team.
Key Interfaces
- Colleagues across TfL, including senior leaders to offer technical advice
- Environmental professionals and external benchmarking organisations to learn and share best practice
- External policy makers and environmental regulators
- External designers, contractors, and other suppliers
Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of environmental management regulations and the environmental issues TfL faces (essential)
- Strong knowledge of designing and evaluating initiatives to improve corporate environmental performance (essential)
- Expert understanding of the political framework in which TfL operates (desirable)
- Strong knowledge of SHE management systems/environmental management systems (essential)
Skills
- Strong ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with stakeholders (essential)
- Strong team building and people leadership (essential)
- Good negotiating and influencing skills (essential)
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships across professional and organisation boundaries (essential)
- Ability to influence at a senior level, including influencing key decision-makers in highly political environments and successfully facilitating joint decision-making (desirable)
- Able to develop and manage project plans to deliver work to time, budget and quality (essential)
- Very good time management and prioritisation skills (essential)
- Excellent research and analytical skills (desirable)
- Attention to detail and ability to interpret and react to complex matters and changing priorities (desirable)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills to convey complex technical information to a range of audiences (essential)
- Strong ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change (desirable)
- Strong ability to work in a highly pressurised environment to very tight time constraints whilst maintaining high quality (essential)
Experience
- In developing and maintaining environmental management systems (desirable)
- In providing technical environmental advice in a large, complex organisation or project (essential) – ideally with specific experience working, onsite within the transport sector (desirable)
- In operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around the shape of the business (desirable)
- Leading a team and building capability to fit business need and ensuring team members are engaged and supported (essential)
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.
Benefits Include
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards may include:
- Final salary pension scheme (which will be net zero by 2045)
- Free travel for you and someone you nominate on the TfL network
- A 75% discount on National Rail tickets for travel to and from work
- 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- Bonus scheme
- Access to competitive private healthcare
- Tax-efficient childcare payments
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
- Discounted Eurostar travel
Application Process
Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter. Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV.
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The closing date for applications is Monday 7th November 2022 @ 23:59
