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Area Manager

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Contract: Fixed Term to 31/3/20 with the intention of extendingOperational

Area: Thames ValleyLocation: Denham

REF: AOP19

Groundwork London is a social and environmental regeneration charity, working with partners to build sustainable communities where individuals and enterprise prosper. This position is an exciting opportunity to work in a key role in the delivery of our partnership programme with Thames Water.

As a confident manager with relevant qualifications and experience, you will ensure your teams’ delivery of high quality community engagement work, by providing advice and support to local communities through the provision of Water Efficiency Home Visits by Smarter Home Visit Advisors.

An inspirational leader with strong interpersonal skills, you will line manage and motivate your team in order to ensure that the contract targets are achieved, and a consistently high quality and level of service is maintained.

An enthusiastic team player, you will have excellent written and verbal skills that will enable you to ensure high standards of communication with your staff and with the wider London teams and partners. Additionally, you will need to oversee delivery targets, manage budgets and manage staff capacity, performance, as well as staff and team learning and development needs.

You will also be expected to oversee all Health and Safety and Environmental Management procedures on the project to ensure Groundwork South remain complaint with our ISO accreditations.

Groundwork South is committed to transforming people’s lives and places through social, economic and environmental action. In terms of development and delivery of these projects we work across three business themes, Parks & Open Spaces, Youth & Learning Services and Greener Living & Working.

In return we offer:

  • 25 days per annum plus English Bank Holidays
  • A contributory pension scheme
  • Scope to continuing development of your professional skills

We're passionate about creating a future where everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and where everyone can reach their potential.
The community charity with a green heart
Groundwork began as a simple idea: if communities help the environment, the environment will help communities.
This is still our approach today. By bringing people and…


We're passionate about creating a future where everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and where everyone can reach their potential.

The community charity with a green heart
Groundwork began as a simple idea: if communities help the environment, the environment will help communities.

This is still our approach today. By bringing people and the environment together with practical local action, we have an impact that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Every year we help communities through thousands of these projects across the UK. Projects that include:

Tackling climate change by helping people out of fuel poverty,
Bringing out the best in young people by helping them to improve their local area,
Building stronger communities by improving parks, playgrounds and other shared green spaces,
Getting people back into work by creating green jobs
and many more.

Non-profit & Charity
Royton
5,000 employees