Director of Environmental Health Services

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is seeking a Director of Environmental Health Services to enhance the profession's profile and lead its advocacy efforts across the UK. The successful candidate will be an experienced Environmental Health practitioner with strong strategic leadership and stakeholder engagement skills. This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on public health through policy development and professional standards.

Qualifications

• Broad experience across all areas of environmental health.
• Experience at a strategic level in shaping policy.
• Ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to set and monitor professional standards.
• Develop member services offerings.
• Shape policy work and advocate for the profession.

Skills

Strategic Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Policy Development

Team Development

Education

Qualified Environmental Health Practitioner

Job description

Role Title: Director of Environmental Health Services

Salary: £100,000-£110,000

Location: Remote

Closing Date: 5pm on Monday 18 August

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (“CIEH”) is the professional membership, awarding body and public voice for environmental health.We set and raise standards to improve public health, supporting our members and influencing policy. Our goal is simple: to enable safer, cleaner, and healthier environments for the benefit of people, business and local communities. To do this we develop recommendations for policy makers, set and enforce practice standards, and offer professional support to our members through a range of corporate training, topical events and workshops.

The new role of Director of Environmental Health Services is critical in delivering our work to raise the profile of environmental health and nurture a thriving environmental health profession. The role will have responsibility for our professional standards, for developing our member services offering and for the full range of our policy and public affairs work. Our members are passionate about the difference that environmental health makes to people’s lives everywhere, every day. Your role will be to lead the teams that set and monitor the standards practiced by the profession, the development and provision of services to our members, and to shape our policy work and to ensure that our advocacy and influence reaches throughout our stakeholder community across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You will use your understanding of the profession to enhance the profile and impact of environmental health disciplines at local, national and international levels.

You will be a qualified Environmental Health practitioner with broad experience across all areas of the profession and dedicated to the positive impact we can have. You will have operated at a strategic level, shaping policy and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including those in both local and central government. A genuinely collaborative leader, you will also be able to develop others and utilise the skills and abilities of a multi-disciplinary team. You will be passionate about developing the environmental health profession, bringing to this role your own commitment to ensuring the voice of the profession, and the Institute, are heard influentially throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This is an exciting time to join CIEH as we deliver our strategic vision for the years to come. If you think are you the right person for this critical role, or would value a conversation to explore any questions and your suitability in more detail, please click https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe124736/, or email [e-mail]