The role
Head of Climate Change
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious, and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate, and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The role:
Southwark has declared a climate emergency and set the ambitious target to transform the council and the borough to be carbon neutral by 2030.
The Head of Climate Change is an exciting new role in the council’s Climate Change and Sustainability Directorate. You will lead the council’s work on sustainability, carbon reduction, energy management and climate change issues. Work is well underway to deliver our climate change strategy and action plan, which will transform Southwark to a lower carbon and more sustainable borough. You will play a leading role in delivering that ambition.
About you:
We are looking for an enthusiastic leader who can drive our climate strategy within the council, aligning all parts of the council’s work to contribute to our overall carbon reduction aims. You will also work with partners, businesses and our residents to deliver behavioural change and to enable all parts of our borough to play their part in reducing Southwark’s carbon emissions.
As a major energy user in the borough, you will oversee the procurement of energy, and act as the Council’s strategic energy market expert. You will deliver value for money for the council and our residents while driving down energy demand as we move to more sustainable energy.
We must take action now to tackle the climate emergency, so you will come to the role with the drive, the skills and the knowledge to have real impact and to ensure that Southwark meets its ambition to become carbon neutral.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 33 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional salary details
This post attracts an additional JNC financial benefits package £2,724 per annum, pro-rata (April-March).
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Monday 17th October 2022 at 23:59
Interview Date: Monday 31st October 2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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