Project Manager

Brighton & Hove City Council; Brighton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a fixed-term role for 12 months to shape a new approach to waste and recycling collections across the city. You will work with frontline teams, digital specialists, partners, residents and elected members to turn bold ideas into practical, deliverable solutions.

You’ll be out engaging, testing ideas, analysing data and helping the council make evidence-based decisions, beyond desk work.

Qualifications

• Curious and motivated by solving real world problems.
• Confident working with complexity, change and competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills who can bring people with them.

Responsibilities

• Working designs developed for a new city wide collection model fit for the future.
• Exploring innovative, digital and data-led approaches to improve services.
• Working closely with operational teams to ensure solutions are realistic and deliverable.

Job description

Help Shape the Future of Waste & Recycling in Our City

Brighton & Hove is rethinking how waste and recyling works for a modern, vibrant and sustainable city. Following the recent introduction of food waste collections, we’re looking for passionate creative problem solvers to help us design what comes next.

This is a rare opportunity to work in the heart of a city wide transformation, developing a new collection model, improving services for our residents, supports our workforce, reduces environmental impact and helps the city meet ambitious climate goals.

Fixed term: For 12 months

Interviews to be held: **date TBC**

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Satti Sidhu, Acting Head of Strategy and Service Improvement [e-mail]

About the role

You’ll play a key role in shaping and delvbiering a new approach to waste and recycling collections across the city. Working with frontline teams, digital specialists, partners, residents and elected members, you’ll help turn bold ideas into practical, deliverable solutions.

This is not just a desk bound role. You’ll be out engaging, testing ideas, analysing data and helping the council make evidence based decisions.

What you’ll be doing

• Working designs developed for a new city wide collection model fit for the future
• Exploring innovative, digital anddata -led approaches to improve services
• Working closely woth operational teams to ensure solutions are realistic and deliverable

What we’re looking for

• Curious creative and motivated by solving real world problems
• Confident working with complexity, change and competing priorities
• Strong communication skills who can bring people with them
• Passionate about sustainability, public service and making a positvie impact

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.