Sustainable Business Programme Manager

Are you passionate about sustainability and helping businesses achieve their net-zero goals? Groundwork are seeking a dynamic Sustainable Business Services (SBS) Programme Manager to lead and grow our impactful team. As the SBS Programme Manager, you will:

• Lead a team delivering services such as energy audits, decarbonization strategies, environmental training, and carbon management.
• Drive business growth by identifying opportunities and developing innovative public and private sector partnerships.
• Oversee a programme budget (approx. £250,000 in 24/25), ensuring high-quality delivery and measurable impact.
• Manage funding proposals, including medium to large-scale projects
• Provide strategic leadership, fostering a positive team culture aligned with our values of inclusion, sustainability, and learning., We're passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:
• Community engagement
• Landscape design & build
• Training & coaching for employment
• Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
• Safe & sustainable business support
As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults. If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester and beyond, read on.