Land Sustainability Officer

National Grid; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus based on performance

Pension scheme with company match

Share incentive plan

Technology schemes

Employee assistance lines

Matched charity giving

Job summary

National Grid invites applications for a Land Sustainability Officer to join the Operational Readiness Team. The role centers on managing the EPA portfolio, coordinating environmental value activities and supporting education centre relationships across the UK.

Hybrid work is encouraged with Warwick as the main location; occasional UK site travel (~monthly) supports stakeholder engagement and programme delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in environmental planning or land management.
• Broad knowledge of biodiversity, natural capital and environmental value.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate EPA portfolio and Environmental Value activities.
• Organise quarterly EPA partner meetings and track actions.
• Support Environmental Education Centre relationships and reporting.
• Maintain programme trackers, governance records and dashboards.
• Coordinate ecology surveys for EPA and EEC sites.
• Coordinate Environmental Value reporting and performance monitoring.
• Organise annual EPA conference and partner engagement.

Skills

Partnerships

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Biodiversity awareness

Environmental education

Education

Environmental or sustainability degree

Job description

We’re looking for a passionate Land Sustainability Officer to join our Operational Readiness Team!

National Grid Electricity Transmission manages a diverse portfolio of Environmental Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Environmental Education Centres (EECs), and Environmental Value initiatives across its non-operational land portfolio. This role offers a unique opportunity to work across a varied range of environmental partnerships and sites, supporting activities that deliver tangible benefits for biodiversity, nature recovery, environmental education, and local communities, while helping to achieve National Grid's commitments within its Social and Environmental Action Plan (SEAP) and wider business objectives.

You’ll also support the team's responsibility for ensuring customer compliance with National Grid's Restoration and Compensation (R&C) principles where customer connection projects or other customer-led activities impact non-operational land. This includes supporting the incorporation of R&C requirements into relevant legal agreements, maintaining robust evidence and records, and reviewing customer proposals, plans, and progress updates to help ensure agreed restoration or compensation measures are appropriate, deliverable, and being implemented in line with National Grid's principles.

This is a variable-base role, with Warwick serving as the primary location for team meetings, collaboration, and business activities. We encourage a hybrid approach to working, with the flexibility to work remotely alongside office-based attendance as required.

The role also involves occasional travel to sites across the UK, typically around once per month, to support stakeholder engagement, site visits, and programme delivery. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility that could help make this role work for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Coordinate and take day-to-day responsibility for the Environmental Partnership Agreement (EPA) portfolio and associated Environmental Value activities.
• Organise and manage quarterly review meetings with EPA partners, including preparing agendas, capturing minutes, tracking actions and ensuring follow‑up activities are progressed.
• Support and coordinate Environmental Education Centre relationships and associated reporting requirements, ensuring actions and outputs are delivered to agreed timescales.
• Maintain and manage programme trackers, action logs, governance records and reporting dashboards, identifying issues and keeping information accurate and up to date.
• Coordinate ecology surveys and monitoring activities associated with EPA and EEC sites.
• Support and coordinate Environmental Value reporting requirements, performance monitoring and environmental value maintenance activities, collating information, tracking delivery outputs and producing clear outputs for review.
• Coordinate annual EPA conference and wider partner engagement activities.

What You’ll Have:

• Suitable qualification or equivalent experience within an environmental, sustainability, ecology, geography, planning, land management or related discipline
• Broad environmental and sustainability knowledge, including awareness of biodiversity, natural capital, environmental value, habitat creation, environmental education and wider sustainability initiatives.
• Strong project and programme management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, actions and reporting requirements simultaneously and progress work independently once priorities are agreed.
• Stakeholder engagement experience and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, including environmental partners, consultants and suppliers.
• Strong organisational skills with experience managing governance processes, trackers, reports and programme documentation.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced and evolving environment whilst maintaining a high level of organisation and professionalism.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don't match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

£42,781 - £50,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance, and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

• bonus based on personal and company performance
• competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan and technology schemes
• support via employee assistance lines
• matched charity giving

More Information:

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 2 October 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 12 October 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us:

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating, and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.