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Country Parks Manager

Employer
Essex County Council
Location
England, Essex, Braintree
Salary
Up to £44810 per annum
Closing date
22 Jun 2021

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Sector
Leisure and Culture
Job role
Manager
Contract Type
Full time

Country Parks Manager

Permanent, Full Time

Up to £44,810.50 per annum

Location: Braintree

Closing Date: 22nd June 2021

This post will be based at Cressing Temple Barns.

About us

At Essex County Council we're already making plans to ensure our long-term economic recovery. We're taking this opportunity to create a greener, more productive and fairer economy that is stronger and more resilient than ever before.

Economic growth is the number one priority for Essex County Council. We want to establish Essex as a great location for the world's top businesses and ensure that it's the best possible place to live and work. Our rich mix of urban, rural and coastal economies, and our growing transport links (including an international airport) mean we're poised for future success.

The Culture, Heritage and Green Spaces department will deliver exceptional customer experiences, increase resilience against climate change, demonstrating the benefit of Essex's strategic location, with the objective of developing a financially sustainable operation. And it starts with growing our team.

About the role

This role is focused on ensuring high performing Country Parks across Essex, effectively managing the green spaces as hubs for biodiversity, and leading the development and implementation of robust business plans, whilst ensuring our long term strategic aims are met, in line with the climate change agenda, and delivering exemplary levels of service to the citizens of Essex and visitors.

As a line manager, you will provide guidance to your employees whilst also managing the recruitment, induction, training, work planning, evaluating performance, managing conduct and disciplinary matters. You will also ensure training and development plans are up to date and meet compliance.

Within this role, you will provide insights around the overall maintenance and health and safety plans for the Country Parks, driving the development and implementation of consistent processes, controls, ways of working and operational practices.

As a leader, you will drive change initiatives, develop a continuous improvement ethos amongst employees, encourage challenge and identify investment in projects that drive new revenue streams.

Collaborative working is also key to this role, building strong relationships with key stakeholders, internally and externally; working closely with internal partners and clients, as well as third party commercial relationships and other councils, continually promoting a culture of excellence, professionalism and consistent communication.

You will also be expected to produce regular financial and non-financial performance reports against agreed key performance indicators, developing and maintaining robust systems to monitor and review service performance to ensure the service is achieving its financial and quality targets.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

We're looking for an excellent leader, with strong communication, excellent attention to detail and people management skills, leading and managing a large geographically dispersed service, with an understanding of land management practises and conservation issues. A broad knowledge and understanding of health and safety issues and relevant legislation, is key for this role.

You should be analytical in your approach, commercially astute and able to identify opportunities for business change and improvement, resolving problems efficiently. You should be able to demonstrate strong budget management, budgetary control, and implementation of spending plans.

This role requires someone innovative, able to make improvements and suggest new revenue streams, whilst also managing their employees effectively, and meeting financial targets. Naturally you should work well within a team, have excellent time management skills, be confident in prioritising tasks, and possess strong IT skills.

Ideally, you will be educated to degree level in land management, countryside management, business management or operations management, or equivalent in experience, with evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.

Above all, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate considerable enthusiasm and energy, together with being highly motivated for what can be achieved.

Benefits

In return, we offer an excellent benefits package to all our employees. It is important to us that you have a healthy work/life balance, which is why we are proud to offer flexible working. The package also includes a clear career path which will encourage gifted, committed individuals to grow with the opportunity for progression and promotion, a local government pension scheme, minimum annual leave of 26 days per year, discounted shopping and much more. Find out more about our benefits here.

Apply and next steps

At Essex County Council, we seek the best talent from the widest pool of people - diversity is key to our success and we want to hear from every part of the community.

To apply, please visit our website - www.workingforessex.com

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