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 Council’s Environment and Leisure Department is recruiting two new Project Managers.

This role will be responsible for leading a range of projects in the department across all our business areas including environmental services, culture, leisure, parks, climate change, community safetyand community engagement.

You will have a varied portfolio of work, delivering with teams who need expert project management support to improve their services. You will also be part of a core team working on somekey corporate programmes such as Southwark Stands Together, our work to tackle racism and injustice.

You will lead projects as part of our ambitious departmental change programme to ensure the department is fit for the future and best able to deliver the wide range of services which our residents value. You will manage service reviews and service improvement programmes across the department and support areas such as organisational transformation and staff wellbeing.

About you:

We are looking for someone who is passionate about good project management and has the skills and experience to use a range of project management techniques across a broad portfolio of work.

You will be a natural collaborator, working with colleagues to deliver change. Through your career you will have shown how you can have real impact using both tried and tested methods, but also willing to innovate to get the best results.

You will be excited about being part of Southwark Council and share our values and commitment to a fairer future for all in Southwark.

We welcome applications from candidates with the right skills, knowledge and experience. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background.

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.

Application Closing Date: 11:59 pm on 12/02/2023

Interview Date: 24/02/2023

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 initiative. 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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