UKRI Head of Environmental Sustainability

With a core budget of over £7Bn, over 8,000 employees and genuine global reach, UKRI provides a unique opportunity to make a real difference in delivering environmentally sustainable research and innovation to help meet tomorrow’s challenges today.  

Based within the Natural Environment Research Council, the UKRI Head of Environmental Sustainability will lead a new team managing the implementation of UKRI’s new Environmental Sustainability Strategy.

You will play a key role in the establishment of the UKRI Centre of Excellence for Sustainability to provide high quality technical expertise and advice to colleagues across UKRI and manage UKRI’s environmental performance reporting.

You will need:

• Degree level qualification or comparable experience in an environmental science or sustainability field;
• Strong leadership and change management skills with a demonstrable ability to translate environmental or sustainability strategy into meaningful action;
• Good problem-solving skills and experience in overcoming common institutional challenges or barriers in environmental sustainability strategy implementation.
• Strong project management skills and experience, backed by formal training/qualification, in project managing environmental sustainability change projects.
• Experience as a team leader with proven ability in managing resources including budgets, work priorities and performance.

Choosing to come to work at UKRI, means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits including a flexible working scheme, a Career Average Revalued Earnings pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

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Please include a covering letter outlining how you fit the role criteria. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.

Closing date for applications is 19^th April 2020.

Interviews will be held on the 14^th or 15^th May 2020.