Parks Manager

Hull City Council; West Carr; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS pension

Annual leave + public holidays

Training & development

Career opportunities

Job summary

Hull City Council is seeking a capable park service manager to lead the ranger teams across half of the city’s parks and outdoor facilities, ensuring clean, safe, and well-maintained spaces with robust inspection regimes.

The role includes coordinating seasonal activities, managing staff and volunteers, and working with partners to maximise park usage and community health outcomes, while monitoring budgets and driving safety compliance.

Qualifications

• DBS disclosure required.
• Not Politically Restricted designation.
• Experience in managing park services or outdoor recreation is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage park ranger teams and mobile staff to deliver a safe, clean, and efficient service.
• Plan and oversee inspections and maintenance of parks, playgrounds, and outdoor facilities.
• Coordinate seasonal activity and staff recruitment to ensure safe and attractive parks open to the public.
• Monitor budgets, income targets, and expenditure within approved limits.
• Promote parks and physical activity within the community and support education opportunities.

Job description

To manage and deliver a safe and efficient park ranger service, being responsible for half of the city's parks, playgrounds and outdoor sports facilities located, primarily located in the west of the city. To ensure that the parks are managed and maintained in a clean and tidy manner at all times, and the facilities are regularly inspected and repaired in a timely and safe manner. Managing a diverse events and activity programme that encourages and increases park usage, including seasonal activity, working within existing parameters of Trust Parks.

To provide operational cover for annual leave and other absences to West/East parks, and Animal Education Centre Manager, and cover and support other colleagues during absences from work.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. To ensure that the parks are maintained in a clean and tidy manner at all times, managing the park ranger team and mobile team to ensure a responsive and efficient service
2. Manage an efficient ranger service to deliver comprehensive daily and weekly inspections and remedial actions. Ensure repair and maintenance requirements are reported promptly and managed through to completion, working with contractors. Ensure that the structures and equipment, playground equipment and paddling pools and other regular or seasonal equipment are fit for purpose, regularly inspected and maintained, and safe for public use.
3. To plan and manage seasonal activity, ensuring that any seasonal staff are recruited in a timely manner, and equipment and playing surfaces are brought into use in a planned and timely way ready for safe and satisfactory public use, and decommissioned safely and securely at the close of the season. Ensure facilities are fit for purpose during inclement weather and surfaces made safe.
4. To be responsible for ensuring the ranger team are suitably qualified for driving responsibilities, carrying out periodic checks on driving licences and insurance cover. Liaise with contractors to ensure that adequate fleet is available and fit for purpose.
5. Contribute to the maximisation of income and utilisation targets and associated actions to meet targets, provide effective budget monitoring and take responsibility for authorising expenditure at a set limit and monitoring budgets relating to the parks including income targets.
6. Actively promote parks that leads to increased participation and healthy outcomes. Contribute to a Sport and Physical Activity Strategy, to promote more people to become more active in the community.
7. Work with the Parks Management Team to be responsible for overall operational healthy safety aspects relating to the designated sites, ensuring risk assessments and safety inspections are regularly undertaken, insurance reports are responded to, and control measures are in place and necessary actions carried out. To work with Health Safety department to ensure all documentation is up to date and meets currents requirements.
8. To be responsible for all the park-based activities, buildings, facilities, open water and recreational spaces and pitches. Manage the events and activity programme, ensuring that visiting event organisers and those delivering activity do so in a safe way that minimises damage to the park surroundings and maximises commercial potential. Sharing responsibility for pre-event safety checks and analysis of event paperwork including risk assessments and insurance.
9. Manage the Senior Park Rangers and Park Development Officers programme of work, to plan and deliver a balanced activity programme that meets customer needs and proactively markets and publicises events and activity that generate increased usage. Supporting staff to develop and deliver park-based education opportunities, create and develop links with community groups and support friends of the park's groups.
10. Responsible for overall site security, ensuring provision of safe and adequate facilities open to the public. Work with the Parks Management Team, coordinating all operational security matters with the ranger team.
11. To be responsible for accurate data collection, analysis and reporting of site-based activity, pertaining to utilisation, income and customer complaints. To use data to inform decision making on site and contribute to ongoing performance and budget management.
12. Provide a high level of customer care and ensure staff are responsive to customer needs and comments and complaints are responded to promptly.
13. To be responsible for the management of staff designated to the parks service, including appraisal, team meetings, effective communications, sickness management, staff rotas and effective deployment via shifts and overtime arrangements to maximise resources. Responsible for the recruitment and management of volunteers, apprenticeships, school and work placements.

£36,363.00 - £39,152.00

Job Classifications:

1- Basic - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), 3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Statutory Post)

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities