Manager - Sustainable Development Team

Natural England; United States; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Natural England is seeking a Senior Manager to provide leadership, direction and coaching within the Sustainable Development team. The role focuses on translating priorities into day-to-day delivery and ensuring strong partnerships across the organisation.

The successful candidate will be highly organized, adaptable to change, and possess strong emotional intelligence to support and develop staff while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Responsabilidades

• Senior Managers will translate organisational priorities into day‑to‑day work.
• They will develop a good understanding of technical and delivery work themes and topics specific to their team. They will support individuals through coaching, mentoring to ensure a fulfilling and healthy work/life balance for those they manage.

Descripción del empleo

We are looking for someone to provide leadership, support, and clear direction for individuals within the team.

Join us in shaping a future where nature and people thrive. Whether you're drawn to hands‑on conservation or playing a vital part behind the scenes, your work at Natural England will support lasting benefits for the environment and society.

Our Role

Natural England is the Government's adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do this working through and with others.

Strategic Outcomes for Nature

Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.

• Recovering Nature- Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.
• Building Better Places- Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.
• Improving Health and Wellbeing- Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
• Delivering Security through Nature- Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.

Find out more about the work of Natural England at:

Natural England's Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK, Senior Managers will translate organisational priorities into day‑to‑day work. They will develop a good understanding of technical and delivery work themes and topics specific to their team. They will support individuals through coaching, mentoring to ensure a fulfilling and healthy work/life balance for those they manage.

There are 12 Area Teams within Natural England (NE). They all sit within the Operations Directorate and are at the forefront of delivering environmental advice and expertise. Area Teams routinely work with external partners and stakeholders developing strong and productive partnerships and relationships across sectors.

This Senior Manger Role, is one of two Senior Managers, working together to provide the support and oversight required for the Sustainable Development team.

We are looking for someone who is efficient, highly organised, adaptable to change, and has strong emotional intelligence.