Team Leader, Natural Resource Management, Business - Wales, United Kingdom - Natural Resources Wales

Natural Resources Wales

Verified Company

Wales, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Contract Type:
Permanent

Work Pattern:
Full Time, 37 hours per week.

Post Number: 203479

As an organisation we support flexible working.

This role allows hybrid working (a mix of home and office working) and a working pattern suitable for you can be discussed on appointment if you are successful.

You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home, of which you will be required to attend for regular meetings, training and for one-to-one meetings with your manager.

These will be planned in advance.

Job description:

If you want an exciting role in business management to support delivery, this is your job.

If you want an interesting organisation that is tackling the nature and climate emergencies this is the organisation for you.

This role, as you will see, is varied. It is key to ensuring we manage the business of supporting the organisation to work effectively and with assurance.

This role will be pivotal in supporting all team working across NRW to delivery priority work in the protection and recovery of nature and to address the climate emergency.

You will need to build and maintain good working relationships with our operational, HR, Finance, Audit administrators, and others to ensure that resources are available and used in the most effective and efficient ways.

However, beyond all of this you will need to have the ability to find solutions to issues, look for efficiencies, influence changes to policy and procedure and work in a varied and demanding environment.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include:

Take a lead role in the strategic business development and assurance of financial and corporate governance approaches ensuring the delivery of:
Business Board, administration and reporting.
Portfolio and programme monitoring and assurance
Business Board life cycle administration from plan to delivery and monitoring.
Specialist performance reporting supporting both business management and performance.
Lead on the provision of financial, resource and programme oversight/advice to Head of Business and Services and their lead business and service managers.
Lead on ongoing development and improvement of governance, reporting and assurance arrangements for NRM portfolio, promoting high standards of public finance, upholding the principles of regularity, propriety, and value for money.
Required to take part in incident response activities

Qualifications, experience and knowledge:

Knowledge and experience of the following:

Good broad Knowledge of NRW and its functions and experience and strong understanding of governance, risk management and compliance requirements.
Proven track record of collaboration, partnership development and effective stakeholder management.
Financial and project/programme management skills and experience enabling you to manage projects and programmes.
Experience of developing and delivering plans for continuous improvement purposes.
IT literate with the ability to use GIS, databases, spreadsheets and word processing packages including power BI.
Ability to write and present reports including financial reports and other documents suitable for NRM Business Board, experts and staff: excellent financial and oral communication skills.
Welldeveloped facilitation, negotiation and coproduction skills_._
Able to matrix manage and work as part of or lead/coordinate work within or across teams who have range of technical knowledge and specialisms.

Welsh Language Requirements:

Essential Level 1 - Able to pronounce Welsh and use basic phrases

Please note if you do not meet the level 1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these mínimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Competencies:

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Post holders will have the ability to manage a breadth of complex financial, legal, operational and reputational risk in their own area of responsibility or management is essential and the ability to manage risk in a wider business context. They will have the associated risk management skills and knowledge of organisational procedures and policy.
The role requires the ability to undertake a range of advanced skilled work, involving significant technical tasks or specialist knowledge in a defined discipline, and where the job holder is required to manage some significant processes which may require previous experience in managing people or other projects and resources.
The post holder will have substantial experience working in the relevant field and demonstrate a high level of knowledge and personal and professional credibility.
The post holder will demonstrate good influencing, people management, networking and mentoring skills as well as the ability to make critical judgements at short notice.
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