Bringing green jobs to the forefront of climate change adaptation and mitigation
The London Green Space Skills Hub is part of the Mayor’s Green Skills Academy to deliver the commitments of the London Green Space Commission using climate adaptation and mitigation to create engagement and green jobs and opportunities for wider training and skills development.
Our green space focus will take in more than traditional parks and formal spaces, including land on housing estates, verges, street space, green roofs and wherever informal spaces are or could be, green.
By matching skilled employees with green-focused employers, The Hub team will help close the gap between unemployment and supporting our environment, transforming our city, responding to the climate and ecological emergencies and providing healthy, social spaces for Londoners.
The Hub will work across the green space sector and related disciplines within the public realm of water management, housing, highways, construction and design to tackle these sector issues.
Our Mission
Advocating for Green Space Employment
To promote the wide range of purposeful career opportunities that respond to climate change, nature recovery and wider social needs (the Green Space Sector)
Collaboration and Coordination
To coordinate an approach, as a sector, to tackle these perceptions and challenges, such as improving diversity and inclusion and visibility of career pathways
Enhance and Amplify
To raise the profile of the sector and promote existing programmes and initiatives
Our Values
Diverse Jobs for Diverse People
We promote diverse jobs, training and and opportunities to all Londoners, from customer service roles in sustainable retail stores to arborists in award winning landscape projects.
Pathways to a Sector of Choice
We guide new, current and developing jobseekers, employees and trainees of green space towards exciting, accessible and impactful opportunities with accessible resources, events, and regular updates.
Potential in Sustainable Futures
We connect our employers and organisations to London’s untapped talent pool through our databases, live projects and community activities.
The Green Space Sector and Jobs
What is the Green Space Sector?
The green space sector refers to the industry and initiatives focused on developing, preserving, and utilizing public spaces that could be greened within urban and natural environments. Activities are designed to enhance and promote the benefits of green areas, such as parks, gardens (private and communal), forests, and other natural landscapes including ‘in-between spaces’, like verges.
The sector involves professionals from different fields, which requires a range of skills. From practical to technical, managerial and administrative, as well as funding, engagement and design. Together, we work to improve air and water quality, foster biodiversity, promote physical and mental well-being, and create sustainable and resilient communities.
The green space sector plays a crucial role in creating healthier and more livable environments for people and nature. Improving and increasing green space in urban areas is an important part of city resilience and adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
What are Green Space Jobs?
‘Green space jobs’ involve the preservation, restoration, and management of natural ecosystems and biodiversity, including but not limited to activities such as sustainable agriculture, conservation, ecological restoration, and forestry. These jobs prioritize environmental sustainability and contribute to mitigating the impacts of climate change through the land management of public parks, roadside verges, and football pitches, for example.
These jobs offer skilled employment opportunities with vast potential for gaining qualifications and career development. There is a wide range of options available to individuals who are interested in working in the private and public sectors, such as with private contractors and local authorities, as well as opportunities to be self-employed.
There is a huge range of jobs, from frontline practical roles, such as arborist, grounds maintenance, surveyor, and gardener, to support roles in communications, contract management, and administration. Green space jobs can be for life; they can form careers or businesses like any other trade.
Find a list of current green space job opportunities on our Jobs Board.
What is the Green Space Skills Hub
The Green Space Skills Hub is part of the Mayor’s Green Skills Academy, designed to deliver the commitments of the London Green Spaces Commission (LGSC) using climate adaptation and mitigation to create engagement, green jobs, and opportunities for wider training and skills development. The LGSC recommends how boroughs can be helped to develop, strengthen, and secure their parks services.
The Green Space Skills Hub is delivered by Groundwork London, an environmental and community charity that works with communities to create better places, improve people’s prospects, and promote greener living and working.
Our Services
Recruitment, workforce structure, diversity and inclusion
Defining employer needs, identifying training options, curriculum design, brokerage, legacy
Keeping the levy in the sector, SME collaboration, programme design
Upskilling the workforce, outreach to other sectors (housing, highways, regeneration)
Focus on climate-driven landscapes, other future green space uses (health and wellbeing, social assets)
Who we work with
We work with leading businesses and organisations to connect people to green jobs and opportunities
Get in touch
Get in touch with our team to get the support you need
Powered by Groundwork
Green Space Skills Hub is delivered by environmental and community charity, Groundwork London.
We work with communities across the capital to transform their lives and the places they live. We have been at the forefront of social and environmental regeneration in London for over 25 years, and today we have a simple mission: to create better places, improve people’s prospects, and promote greener living and working.
