Health and Nature Project Manager - Abingdon, United Kingdom - South Oxfordshire District Council

South Oxfordshire District Council

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Abingdon, United Kingdom

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Description

Salary:
£39,000 (pro rata)

Location:
Hybrid / Abingdon

Hours:
Part time (approx. 3 days per week)

Fixed Term:
Until 31 August 2025 (secondment maybe available)

Enhanced Annual Leave: 24 days per annum pro rata (plus bank holidays & Christmas shutdown)

Annualised Hours:
Working extra hours means taking extra leave

The Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership

The Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership is a cross sectoral partnership which aims to radically enhance nature, its positive impact on society and the priority it's given, helping to make Oxfordshire a place where people and nature thrive.

It's comprised of all six major councils, statutory agencies, community organisations, environmental charities, universities and healthcare professionals. We work across three core areas - nature recovery, nature finance, and nature & health.

Access to nature is an important upstream driver of health equity. But greenspace is not distributed evenly, nor are all members of society equitably able to access it.

This OLNP's nature and health workstream aims to address this by:

bringing partners together, raising the profile of 'nature for health' and advocate for equitable access as a key health and sustainability goal
ensuring green infrastructure best practice is reflected in local planning policy
collaborating with partners to support delivery of targeted nature-based activities or interventions to address health inequalities, including through green social prescribing
identifying and addressing local and national gaps in data, evidence and insight

The Role
Do you want an exciting, varied and rewarding role where you will be bringing together key stakeholders from across Oxfordshire to help improve equitable access to nature-rich greenspace? Do you want to work in a dedicated, passionate, purpose-led team to help to make Oxfordshire a greener, healthier, fairer place? Keen to work for an employer who will support you in developing your experience and knowledge to further your career?

Do you have a strong understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and health, with experience of working in either of these sectors? Are you an excellent partnership worker, committed to equality and diversity and able to mobilise partners in a common cause? Do you have strong facilitation skills, with experience of co-designing policies, projects and workshops? Can you spot interdependencies with other related work areas? Are you solutions-focused, a good team player able to work on your own initiative?

Coordinate the Health and Nature subgroup of Oxfordshire's Local Nature Partnership, in liaison with its co-chairs
support local implementation of Natural England's new Green Infrastructure Framework
collaborate with Oxfordshire's District and City councils to ensure prioritisation of improving access to nature-rich greenspace and creating greener communities especially in areas of deprivation or where there is poor or unequal access
build Environmental Voluntary and Community Sector (eVCS) capacity to improve access for underserved populations
help secure funding for and develop a small grants scheme to test demonstrator projects that promote and support interaction with nature and set up a common evaluation framework for these activities
develop a community insights project to understand barriers experienced by under-served communities to accessing local green spaces
champion the benefits of ensuring accessible greenspace is biodiverse, acknowledging the increased health benefits related to high nature value sites

This is a politically restricted post
This is an Oxfordshire Partnerships post, based at South and Vale councils.

We have a hybrid working style and the successful applicant would be able to work remotely but would need to be present for meetings and team working up to twice a month.

Closing date: 26 June (midnight)

Interview date: 4 July

You may have experience in the following: Sustainability, Conservation, Biodiversity, Environmental management, Stakeholder engagement, Project Coordinator, Natural resource management, Community development, Ecological restoration, Policy implementation, Data analysis and reporting, Public Sector, Local Government, etc.

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