91577 - MoJ Sustainable Construction Manager

You will be part of a lively and creative multidisciplinary team responsible for the delivery of key MoJ sustainability priorities. The MoJ intends to be a sustainability leader within Whitehall, and as such, seeks high performing and highly motivated individuals to inspire and deliver meaningful environmental improvements. We work collaboratively across our areas of expertise to deliver positive environmental outcomes across a large range of themes including:

Meeting the Greening Government Commitment targets (GGC)
Energy management & decarbonisation/net zero
Waste management and circular resource models
Water efficiency
Sustainable construction
Sustainable procurement
Climate Change Adaptation
Biodiversity protection and enhancement.
The Climate Change and Sustainability Unit is responsible for embedding environmental sustainability across MoJ, its agencies (including prisons, courts and probation centres) and its Arm's Length Bodies. Sustainability needs to be embedded across the department's policy making, operations, finance, governance, estates and commercial activity. Working in a large and diverse organisation presents the team with huge scope to deliver national scale sustainability leadership.

In this role, you will be part of Property Directorate's exciting new multi-disciplinary team - the Climate Change and Sustainability Unit (CCSU). Our mission is to develop, deliver and embed key MoJ and wider Government sustainability programmes throughout our entire estate. We aspire to be a sustainability leader within Whitehall, and to do this we are seeking passionate, motivated people to lead and deliver meaningful and impactful environmental outcomes nationally. This is a great opportunity to cultivate an interesting and rewarding career in environmental sustainability while working with a dynamic and supportive team., You will be influencing one of the most significant construction programmes in Government, with an impact spanning decades. We need someone inspiring, with a proven track record of influencing sustainable construction and operational impacts and with brilliant engagement and communication skills.

Join over 79,000 staff at the Ministry of Justice and help us make a positive and meaningful impact to the lives of thousands of people and the environment.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a major government department at the heart of the justice system where we work to protect and advance the principles of justice. The MoJ Property Directorate manages one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government - covering a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation centres and approved premises, courts as well as the offices of the HQ and Arms Length Bodies. The MoJ Property Directorate is a supportive, people-focused organisation that provides high quality, easy-to-use services for customers, and positive, collaborative working environments for staff., This exciting role will help embed the MoJ's ambitious environmental standards into our multi-billion pound new prisons construction programme. This programme includes a variety of different projects from the construction of four new "Green" prisons, the delivery at pace of houseblocks within existing prisons and large scale expansions of supporting buildings and refurbishments across the estate., MoJ Property provides specialist services including facilities management, health and safety, fire safety and security, technical design expertise, and sustainability. We also have business management teams who support the entire Directorate and each of our partners is supported by account management teams. We are responsible for a great deal - our portfolio consists of properties valued at £8.5bn for the MoJ alone. We are part of the Government Property Profession (GPP) and through active membership and engagement we will work with the Office of Government Property to develop the maturity of the profession and also encourage our people to join the GPP. We continue to build our capability through training and recruitment, aspiring to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a directorate.