Environment Programme Manager

Environment Programme Manager 

Salary: £42,000 – £56,800

Location: Cambridge, hybrid working a minimum of 2 days per week from the office

Contract: Permanent, full time – 35 hours per week

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Environment Programme Manager to join our team and play a vital role in delivering our environmental sustainability strategy, to minimise our impact on the environment of our operations.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

Are you interested in reducing the impact of businesses on the environment?

Are you motivated by working with fantastic people to deliver positive change?

If you answered yes, you may be interested in our fantastic opportunity to join us as an Environment Programme Manager.

In this newly created role, you will manage a portfolio of varied environmental programmes and projects, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, and to an excellent standard.

You will develop and implement programme and project management best practice across the portfolio, working closely with stakeholders across our global business, to facilitate and empower innovative and collaborative activity across functions and geographies.

This is a fast-paced role, where no two days are the same as you create an effective approach to the management of the environmental sustainability programme, whilst providing ongoing review and updates of best practice techniques, existing frameworks, governance, and risk requirements.

You will drive agile ways of working as you lead a number of multi-disciplinary teams to work in a successful delivery structure, providing clear and focused leadership.

About you  

You will be aware of environmental sustainability challenges and be passionate about pushing forward the fulfilment of programme goals in order to make positive change.

You will have an understanding of strategy implementation, whilst thriving on variety and will be eager for opportunities to learn new things.

You will be well organised and adept at co-ordinating people to achieve a common goal, along with experience of managing diverse programmes and projects. Knowledge of the challenges and potential solutions in reducing environmental impacts in publishing would be advantageous.

We support learning and development and would welcome applications from candidates who may not meet all of the criteria, but can demonstrate transferable skills with an enthusiasm for learning.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits 

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

The latest date for submitting your application is 14 December 2023, however we will be reviewing applications whilst the advert is open and reserve the right to close the campaign early if we feel we have the right number of applications, so please do not delay in submitting your application. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 8 January 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us 

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You’ll belong to a collaborative team that’s exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

Environment Programme Manager