Project Manager (Environmental)

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Project Manager for our client a local government organisation based in Bristol.

The successful candidate will join the Environment team and work on a major infrastructure programme.

Key responsibilities in this role would be to ensure a focus on delivering the priorities of the Metro Mayor by: Integrating environment into an infrastructure programme; Ensuring the delivery of a one year task and finish work programme; Managing a team and assessing projects on their environmental performance.

This is initially a 3 month contract which may be extended for the right applicant. This role will be Hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Manage the work programme to deliver the project objectives, milestones, and timescales.
• Collate, review, and decipher legal, grant agreement, policy, project and technical documents and brief the technical experts to gain their input efficiently and effectively into setting out the environmental requirements.
• Interpret and collate the technical expertise input into concise, clear, and consistent project documents for project managers.
• Adopt a proportionate and risk-based approach for integrating the environment across the CRSTS programme.
• Set out clear requirements for the business case development stages, stage gates, grant agreements (where applicable), contracts, health and safety, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Manage the technical experts to deliver the assessment and appraisal of CRSTS projects in respect to meeting their environmental requirements.
• Develop the approach for evaluating, monitoring, and auditing CRSTS projects in relation to their environmental requirements.
• Keep track of project finances, costs of environmental work and their communication.
• Act as an ambassador for the Environment Directorate and the Mayoral Combined Authority in all interactions with external stakeholders.
• Create and update project documentation, including timelines, risk registers, etc., and ensure project delivery to tight deadlines.

Personal Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or with equivalent work experience.
• Professional qualification in project management and/or equivalent experience in project management, ideally applied in infrastructure design and construction.
• Knowledge of the wider climate and nature emergencies and national, regional, and local responses to it.
• Demonstratable experience of integrating environmental issues into projects or delivering environmental projects.
• An understanding of environment regulations/legislation/policy (Desirable).
• Qualification or experience in relevant project management disciplines and their practical application (Desirable).
• IEMA qualification (Desirable).
• Knowledge of Business Case development for public sector funding in the UK, ideally in the infrastructure sector (Desirable).

Working Hours: 09:00am - 17:00pm, Monday - Friday

Pay: £300.00 - £400.00 per day

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.