Job Details
- Project Manager (Nature Towns and Cities)
Fife Council is delighted to have been awarded significant funding by National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Nature Towns and Cities programme to improve the quality of, and access to, historic parks and urban green spaces in whole towns and cities while supporting new ways to engage local communities and generate greater investment.
The climate and nature crises threaten human society. Urban parks and greenspaces foster vital connections with nature. Fife Council is transforming in response to this, and wider financial challenges through the Transforming Fife’s Greenspace project. The #Transforming Fife’s Greenspace vision is for Fife to be a leader in urban green/blue space management. Transforming our approach to improve people’s lives, improve health and enhance biodiversity through:
1. Meaningful community engagement in Dunfermline, Rosyth, Kirkcaldy, and Glenrothes. Developing projects to improve the use of public greenspace on Fife Council and NHS land.
2. Establishing sustainable financing mechanisms, through our Nature Finance Fife investment scheme.
3. Creating a Green Transformation Plan, linked to Fife Council and NHS Fife Corporate Strategy. Embedding it within a new revised Fife Council Greenspace service, enabling a pro-active approach to greenspace transformation.
4. The post holder will develop and deliver the Nature Towns and Cities #Transforming Fife’s Greenspace project. They will manage the project to make Fife a leader in urban green/blue space management, transforming our approach to improve people’s lives, improve health and enhance biodiversity. This post will cover all aspects of climate, sustainability and biodiversity.
The Project Manager (Nature Towns and Cities) will be central to the management of the 4 Pathways of the Transforming Fife’s Greenspace project, and work with Services across the Council, and with NHS Fife, Fife Coast and Countryside Trust and other organisations and community groups.
The Person
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated team player with a positive attitude to partnership working. Applicants must be able to demonstrate a level of competence and knowledge of managing large scale partnership projects and co-ordinating multiple inputs to developing business cases and transformational plans.
5. The post holder will be able to lead a varied team of internal and external stakeholders to:
6. Manage and facilitate greenspace and nature projects,
7. Lead transformational place-based nature and biodiversity reviews and delivery,
8. Engage and influence stakeholders and communities to improve access to and quality of greenspace
9. Deliver strategic research to inform greenspace improvements.
10. They also need to have a knowledge of environmental policies, legislation and issues related to Local Government, and educated to SCQF level 9 (Degree or equivalent), ideally in an environment or relevant subject.
11. If you meet the essential qualification criteria and want to make a difference in tackling the nature and climate emergencies, we’d like to hear from you.