About You
Are you passionate about helping your colleagues deliver the best they can in projects and programmes?
Ready to work with a brilliant team to lead the charge in setting gold standards for governance and delivery?
Do you want to burst with pride when people ask were you work?
If so, read on......
We’re looking for a Centre of Excellence Frameworks and Standards Manager to support development and implementation of best-in-class frameworks, standards, and governance models across our organisation. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will directly influence how we deliver value, ensure consistency, and foster innovation.
What you’ll bring to the role:
* ✅ Proven experience in designing and implementing enterprise-wide frameworks and standards
* ✅ Strong understanding of governance, risk, and compliance within complex organisations
* ✅ Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
* ✅ Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence at all levels
* ✅ A supportive and collaborative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
Join us and be the driving force behind a culture of excellence.
We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!
About The Role
To provide expert advice and leadership in the development and implementation of frameworks and standards within the Centre of Excellence, ensuring high-quality project delivery and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Expert Advice: Provide expert advice in one or more specialist areas to inform decision-making, resolve difficulties, and shape standards and approaches across the function. Use expertise to develop solutions to complex functional problems, contribute to management reviews, and support functional strategies. This may involve supervising other professional or administrative staff.
• Professional Development: Advise on the development of other professionals within your area of specialisation, including skills and competencies development, recommending courses and qualifications, and leading training sessions. Show commitment to your own professional development and build a wide range of industry links.
• Reviews: Provide expert advice in specialist areas during project reviews, peer reviews, peer assists, and stage gate reviews.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 29th June 2025
Sifting date: w/c 30th June 2025
Interviews: From 3rd July 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
* A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
* Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
* Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
* Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
* Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
* Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
* Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
* Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
* Unlock exclusive employee discounts
* Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
* Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details. If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or give us a call on 01623 637000.