Project Manager

Job title: Challenge Supervisor 

Location: Merseyside

Wage: £26,300 per yr

Closes: Tuesday thirtieth April 2024

Place: Challenge Supervisor

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week. Flexibility required (some night
& weekend work)

Background

The Mersey Rivers Belief (MRT) is an environmental charity focussing on the safety and
enhancement of rivers and waterbodies within the Mersey Catchment. It operates in an space masking
Better Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire. The Belief works with companions, native communities
and volunteers to ship a variety of initiatives together with river restoration, discount of
flood danger by Pure Flood Administration strategies, river monitoring, volunteer occasions (eg river
clean-ups/invasive species management and citizen science), group engagement and schooling
occasions, farm recommendation/plans and biodiversity internet achieve.

Resulting from an inside promotion, we now have a emptiness for a venture supervisor to joint our
Merseyside workforce to develop and ship a collection of Pure Flood Administration initiatives. The
programme of initiatives are break up into two phases, planning and improvement adopted by
implementation.

The function will go well with an skilled and self-motivated particular person with abilities in venture
administration and finance. The best candidate can have a background in venture administration with
some expertise of planning and growing environmental water-based initiatives.

Function Overview

The function holder will take accountability for the preliminary planning and improvement of a number of
initiatives together with venture planning, making ready landowner agreements, making use of for permits and
permissions and dealing with the Senior Challenge Supervisor to develop tender documentation. Because the
venture strikes into the implementation section the venture supervisor will oversee the supply of
initiatives together with monitoring of on the bottom supply, contractor efficiency and compliance
with methodologies and venture plans. There may additionally be the chance to immediately ship
initiatives with different MRT workers.

The function will embrace communication and reporting to exterior events and different MRT workers
together with the Senior Challenge Supervisor and Programme Supervisor.

The put up holder might be home-based and might want to journey all through the Mersey Basin
catchment.

Key Duties:

The primary duties of the function might be to assist Mersey Rivers Belief workers within the supply of its
portfolio of initiatives and engagement actions in Mersey Catchment together with the administration of
particular initiatives.

The function holder might be supervised by a Senior Challenge Supervisor however might be anticipated to take
possession and lead particular duties following acceptable coaching/competence improvement.

Particular duties will embrace: 

• Handle a spread of environmental initiatives, making certain milestones are met, budgets are adhered
  to, and profitable supply is achieved.
• Figuring out the consents and permits required for initiatives and guarantee these are obtained so
  work can start as deliberate e.g flood danger, planning permission, landowner permissions.
• To assist the Senior Challenge Supervisor in venture administration and reporting actions,
  together with monetary reporting, preparation of funding claims in addition to administration of
  contractors.
• Evaluate of all H&S necessities for initiatives and lead by instance in prioritising H&S
  and wellbeing.
• To assist promote venture messages to the general public by means of shows, shows, occasions,
  social media and common publicity.
• To help within the improvement of monitoring and analysis methods and to doc, monitor
  and consider all initiatives in step with funding necessities.
• To attend common inside and exterior conferences as required.
• To work in a versatile method and to undertake some other duties and obligations as could
  be assigned now and again, that are commensurate with the grade of the job.
• To journey all through the Merseyside space and infrequently elsewhere within the Mersey River
  Basin as required.
• To hold out all the above duties with full regard to the Belief’s Equal Alternatives,
  Non-Discrimination, Safeguarding, Environmental, Well being and Security insurance policies.

Candidate Profile

• Diploma or different related qualification
• Legitimate driving licence and personal automobile, insured for enterprise use is important.
• Competent and assured in using e-mail, Excel and Phrase. Expertise in GIS and
  Powerpoint can be fascinating, together with social media (Fb, Twitter).
• Expertise of profitable environmental venture supply working as a part of a workforce, ideally
  within the river surroundings and/or in catchment administration.
• Expertise in working with contractors and volunteers is fascinating.
• Self-motivated and in a position to work successfully from residence with out supervision and to a excessive
  stage of accuracy and a focus to element.
• Capacity to work flexibly, together with some early mornings, some evenings and a few
  weekends/financial institution holidays.
• Capacity to prioritise and plan actions to satisfy strict deadlines.
• Reliability, good attendance and work efficiency.
• Sturdy workforce working abilities and in a position to work collaboratively with companions, contractors,
  volunteers and group teams.
• Good organisational / admin abilities and a focus to element –

Basic Notes

• Journey across the Mersey Catchment might be needed and subsequently a present driving
  licence and entry to an appropriately insured automobile is important.
• This place will now and again require work throughout some evenings, weekends and public
  holidays. A time-off in lieu system is operated by the Belief.

To use: 

For those who want to apply, please ship a CV (not more than two sides of A4) and masking letter (no
greater than two sides of A4), outlining the way you meet the necessities of the individual specification
and job description and why you wish to work for the Belief. Please e-mail your utility to
the Operations Director of the Mersey Rivers Belief, Paul Henbrey ([email protected]).

Purposes should be acquired by e-mail no later than the top of Tuesday thirtieth April
2024

Interviews might be held in early Could both through Zoom or face-to-face relying on
circumstances.

If you want extra details about the function earlier than submitting an utility, you might
contact Paul Henbrey 07747 446103 ([email protected]) or John Sanders 07821 117396
([email protected]).