Climate Change Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support and lead the implementation of Kent County Council's Environment agenda. We are looking for a dedicated individual to join as Climate Change Team Leader, focusing on developing, supporting, monitoring, and reviewing activities related to specific projects within the Environment Plan and associated strategies, including the Kent Environment Strategy and the Kent and Medway Energy and Low Emissions Strategy.

As a Team Leader, you will play a crucial role in achieving the county-wide 2050 Net Zero target and Kent County Council's 2030 Net Zero target. You will actively engage with various stakeholder channels, focusing on collaboration across the Local Authority network within Kent and beyond, and with relevant public and private sector partners. Your expertise will provide extensive advice and support to managers across KCC to ensure effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop, support, and manage a range of climate, adaptation, and low-carbon projects across the Council and within a partnership context at all stages of the project cycle

- Lead and develop the Climate Change team, overseeing their work plans and priorities to ensure proactive and collaborative service delivery.

- Monitor and evaluate the progress of projects, identifying any scope for improvement or any problems or constraints as determined by legislation, national and local policy, and initiatives

- Act as strategic lead for the Kent and Medway Energy and Low Emissions strategy, ensuring appropriate monitoring, review, and updates are carried out to enable genuine progress towards Net Zero 2050

- Provide support to the Programme Manager/Project Sponsor in planning and monitoring project budgets to ensure tight financial control and the effective use of resources

This full-time role offers hybrid working options, with a mixture of office-based work at Invicta House, Maidstone, and remote work from home.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.