Green Team Programme Manager

| Groundwork

Location: London

Salary: £42,500

Full Time: 37.5 Hours per week

Closing Date: 13th of September 

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Job Description

In 2024, our Green Teams are at the very heart of the delivery of several of Groundwork’s employment programmes and our newest landscaping and sustainable urban drainage projects. We are seeking a Green Team Programme Manager who will lead and manage the programme’s activities that will be crucial to the success of these projects and motivate and lead the team of Green Team Supervisors who train those new to the industry. 

The delivery of Green Team training programmes is a vital part of Groundwork London’s Employment Skills & Training programme. The Green Team Programme Manager leads and manages the Green Team Programme which oversees the grounds maintenance and landscaping contracts delivered by the teams.   

The Programme Manager is responsible for ensuring all our contracts are delivered on time and to budget, and that our long-term unemployed trainees are offered the best opportunity to develop their skills and experience through which to gain the necessary qualifications and experience to enable them enter horticulture roles within Green and Open Space programmes and initiatives.  

The post-holder line manages the Green Team Supervisors, Support Officer.   

Main Objectives: 

• Line management of Green Team Supervisors, ensuring staffing, resource allocation and management and staff/trainee skills are effectively and efficiently employed. 

• Secure, cost, plan and deliver an annual programme of landscaping and ground’s maintenance works for delivery through Groundwork’s Green Teams. 

• Manage sub-contractors effectively on site, ensuring their competence and the quality of their delivery is to the highest standard. 

• Oversee the management, training and supervision of trainees undertaking landscape improvement and maintenance projects across Groundwork London’s operational area. 

• Ensure best practice and compliance with Groundwork London’s internal project management and H&S systems and procedures, guaranteeing all resources are properly controlled and managed and that agreed financial processes are adopted and used at all times. 

• Ensure all Green Team work is carried out to the highest quality, meeting the expectations and targets set by our clients.  

Please contact us if you: 

• have a track record of costing & winning landscaping and grounds maintenance contracts  

• are successfully delivering those contracts through directly employed teams and sub-contractors   

• have the ability to work closely with our in-house team of Landscape Architects and Community Team members to deliver design build solutions for our clients  

• demonstrate a desire to put our trainees at the heart of our service delivery and support their progression into careers in the industry   

Over the last nearly 25 years, Groundwork’s Green Teams have provided hundreds of unemployed Londoners with their first taste of work in grounds maintenance and horticulture.  Under the tutelage of our Green Team Supervisors they have successfully delivered award winning landscaping and maintenance contracts throughout London  

You will be highly organised, able to work towards targets and deadlines, whilst managing your own workload.  You’ll be supported in your role by key staff within the Employment and Landscaping teams. 

Full Job Description  – Green Team Programme Manager JD&PS_July 2024

How To Apply 

Please submit your CV and a supporting statement quoting reference 1216/GTPM to greenspaceskillshub.org.uk. Good Luck!