Job Description

About Us

We are seeking an experienced and passionate candidate to manage a range of our environmental projects from inception, consultation, procurement and delivery, to completion and the launch events.

Stevenage is a new town with an impressive offering of over 70 key green spaces, including parks, play areas, allotments, and woodlands. Our residents enjoy and fully use a wide range of outdoor facilities and take pride in the town\'s parks, open spaces, and informal recreation facilities.

You will need a project management background, able to organise workloads and resources, excellent communication, and ability to engage with a wide range of audiences, effectively manage contractors and work to strict deadlines. You will work within a small team to deliver a range of green space projects this will involve varied working from being on site with contractors to working from home.

If you are a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic person, with a track record of delivering exciting and innovative projects, and would like to play a key role in the development of some of Stevenage\'s prestigious green spaces, why not apply and join our team!

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• Flexible working: available upon request, subject to operational requirements.
• Part time and Job share: all our full time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
• 25 days holiday rising to 31 days (depending on Local Government service)
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Stevenage Credit Union: secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans.
• Employee Discounts: via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)
• Discounted Health and Fitness membership at Everyone Active
• Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union.

Application Details

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Julia Hill, Environmental Policy & Development Manager (01462 242900)

To apply online, please visit

Please note that if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close this vacancy ahead of the published closing date

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