Project Manager (Maternity Cover)                  

Salary:         £39,228 p.a.  FTE

(pro-rata salary dependent on hours worked)

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off, 8% employer pension contributions, a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.

Contract:     Fixed term maternity cover for up to 12 months

Hours:           Full time, 37.5 hours (30 hours per week will be considered - we are open to discussing how this may work for you)

Location:     London (with hybrid working available) with regular travel across England

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world that is facing its greatest environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent.

As we’re moving forward we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results.  We embrace all the different identities in the UK and we want our workforce to reflect that.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff, and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. With this in mind, if you're excited about this role but you’re worried that your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd still love you to apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role!

Keep Britain Tidy’s Services Team delivers high-quality research, innovation and evidence-based services which align with the charity’s aims to reduce resource use, waste and litter, improve the quality of public space and help people live more sustainably. We are looking for a Project Manager with the flair and flexibility to deliver a range of projects for local authority clients and partners. Your projects could include delivering innovative solutions to problems like recycling contamination and fly-tipping, running door-to-door engagement campaigns to drive up recycling, and conducting surveys to improve waste and recycling collections. You will be responsible for all aspects of project delivery and management, which in some cases will involve managing teams of casual workers.

All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know. 

If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description

After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply.

As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions, submit your CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.

Please submit your application before the closing date.

The deadline for applications is 09:00, Monday 17 June 2024.

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams in the week commencing Monday 01 July 2024.

If you require an in person interview, please let us know.

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We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.

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