Assistant SHE Environment Manager

Job title - Assistant SHE Environment Manager (Strategy Team)
Salary – £37,000 - £42,000
Location – Hybrid / London
Contract Type – Permanent

Overview of project/role

Join a dynamic team that sits at the apex of providing both strategic guidance and practical, technical support to help accelerate London’s transition towards a more sustainable city.

This role sits within the Environment Strategy team within the Sustainability and Corporate Environment team. The team’s activities include:

• Supporting and developing TfL’s Corporate Environment Plan; making plans to deliver key themes within it and tracking progress towards our goals
• Supporting and developing TfL’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
• Supporting and developing TfL’s Green Infrastructure Plan
• Developing TfL’s whole life carbon management and scope 3 reduction strategies
• Developing TfL’s Sustainable Resources strategies
• Working with external partners and suppliers to drive environmental improvements
• Working across the business to improve environmental data management and reporting

Key Accountabilities

• Supporting development of the environmental strategy and direction across key themes and within business areas
• Supporting the implementation of plans and strategies across the business.
• Coordinating and tracking activities and progress against plans to ensure continued progress.
• Being a champion and advocate for safety, health and environment in everything you do, role modelling what it means to make safety, health, and environment personal.
• Hunger and curiosity to continually expand your knowledge, collaborate with others to solve the most challenging questions and translate ideas into practical application

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge

• Good knowledge and understanding of TfL services and the political framework in which TfL operates (Essential)
• Good knowledge of environmental management regulations and the issues in the transport and urban planning industries in the UK and in London (Desirable)
• Strong knowledge of designing and evaluating initiatives to improve corporate environmental performance (Desirable)
• Good knowledge of project management principles (Desirable)
• Good knowledge of whole life carbon management (Desirable)

Skills

• Ability to work at pace and make things happen, both independently and collaboratively within a team and with colleagues across a large, complex organisation (Essential)
• Ability to communicate environmental concepts and solutions and to influence your key stakeholders (Essential)
• Ability to prioritise workload (Essential)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, alongside strong examples of collaboration and diplomacy to ensure all risks and opportunities are captured and adequately communicated to inform decision-making throughout the lifecycle of all projects, schemes and initiatives (Essential)
• Support identification and delivery of environmental improvements, through systems, competence, advice and assurance (Desirable)

Experience

• Experience of managing a project with multiple interacting elements and complex stakeholders (Essential)
• Experience of TfL project management and engineering processes (Desirable)
• Experience of identifying environmental issues in projects, contracts and operations and advising colleagues on specialist environmental issues (Desirable)
• Assisting with environmental improvement programmes, contract design, managing external consultants for specialist and technical environmental services (Desirable)

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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.

Application Process

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

The closing date for applications is Sunday 5th March 2023 @ 23.59

Benefits
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel