Are you an experienced environmental and/or sustainability manager? Can you help DVLA meet its environmental targets and legal obligations, while supporting business teams on sustainability issues? Do you have experience driving forward environmental plans and improvement strategies and contributing to policy development, implementation and review? If so, we’d love to hear from you! DVLA’s Sustainability team leads the Agency’s environmental performance, ensuring compliance and delivery of government priorities. Working across all functions, the team embeds sustainable practices, reduces environmental impact and provides expert advice to support informed decision-making. We oversee compliance, planning, reporting and policy, collaborating closely with the Department for Transport to develop and implement effective strategies. With a focus on innovation and continuous improvement, we drive initiatives that enable DVLA to operate responsibly and in line with evolving legislation. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. Read more in the Benefits section below! Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Department for Transport Careers This role ensures the Agency meets government‑set environmental targets, obligations and legislation while advising and supporting business teams on sustainability issues. You will lead the implementation of the environmental plan and oversee key environmental initiatives across the organisation. You will develop relationships with the estates and facilities contract service partners, DVLA business units and DFT, to identify agency wide and local business needs and issues relating to environmental sustainability which require input and solutions, and action these in line with the Agency’s environmental sustainability plan and strategy. The role also contributes to sustainability policy development for DVLA and the Department for Transport, helping to shape, implement and review policies. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: To support the management of the Environmental Management System and ensure certification standards are maintained across the Agency including performing environmental audits to a high standard and assisting in the resolution of issues.To focus on sustainability policy areas as and when required by the agency strategy, commitments and wider government needs. This includes leading on projects and workstreams across the sustainability sphere.To advise and support business teams in understanding the environmental sustainability policies and plans and to gather intelligence to inform the development of the policies and plans.To monitor environmental data to ensure that the agency/business units are meeting the environmental targets and that areas of concern are highlighted, addressed and escalated where necessary and to support the senior environment manager in the development of strategies and policies in business units. Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .