Food Programme Lead: Water
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The vacancy
Job type: Full time and part time
Location: Banbury, London, Cardiff, or Belfast – you will be contractually based in the office nearest to you with hybrid working.
Hybrid working: You will be able to work from home and come into the office to collaborate with your team(s) when required. We have flexible core hours, and we don’t believe in a culture of presenteeism. We will discuss what is important to you and what the role requires to be effective, during the recruitment process.
Salary & Benefits: £60-70k, 10% pension, 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, 35 hour working week, up to 13 flexi-days, private medical insurance, life assurance, and much more!
Closing date: 27th October. WRAP reserves the right to close this role early in the event of a large volume of applications.
Visa sponsorship: Please note, we are able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
Who are we?
WRAP is a global environmental action NGO championing the shift towards a circular economy, fundamentally reshaping how we produce, consume, and manage resources. Our vision is a world transformed, in which Circular Living is commonplace. Where the systems that provide our everyday goods contribute to the world's prosperity and sustainability instead of reducing it.
WRAP is driving Circular Living through four key areas: accelerating the circular economy, future-proofing food, preventing problem plastics and transforming textiles. We catalyse action from policy makers, businesses, NGOs and citizens to make it happen.
We have offices in the UK, USA and Australia, and live projects in over 30 countries.
Join us at WRAP and you'll drive important change to make Circular Living the norm.
The role
As our new Programme Lead for Water you will form part of a programme leadership team with specific responsibility for leading our programmes on Water. You will report to the Head of Food Systems Transformation and work closely with the Food Strategic Engagement Manager and the Food Global Delivery Lead on strategy development and funding pipelines. You will develop and implement ambitious programmes in the pursuit of WRAP growing impact across multiple geographies. Leading a specialist teams, you will cultivate and deliver evidence-based strategies for transformation, incorporating partner, people and policy action, and drawing on the impressive range of insight and expertise across WRAP.
In the UK, our food pact The Courtauld Commitment 2030, has a target that 50% of the UK’s fresh food is sourced from areas with sustainable water management. This role will play a pivotal role in achieving this target and reducing the water impact of food systems around the world.
Additional core responsibilities:
- Work to develop and deliver an ambitious impact-focused programme strategy, working closely with colleagues in Programme Delivery and Partnerships, Government, and Business Engagement to ensure WRAP maximises impact and income potential.
- Work closely with the Global Delivery Lead and other key internal stakeholders to design and deliver impact programmes in multiple geographies, ensuring learning is transferred between programmes and regions.
- Attend and represent WRAP and the Food Systems Transformation Team at external meetings, events and workshops as required.
- Grow, and inspire a diverse team of impact-focussed experts within the water team, ensuring effective delivery of a learning and development programme for the team, and facilitating growth of talent at all levels in the team.
- Work with senior leaders, to shape the future direction, priorities, delivery mechanisms and measurement methods for WRAP’s system transformation strategies across multiple geographies, including our voluntary agreement model.
- Lead team to build strong senior level partnerships with key businesses, government, funders, and stakeholders to meet targets, position WRAP’s work and develop opportunities for business growth in the programmes on water
Who are we looking for?
This is a truly exciting role and we’re looking for an individual that can combine the practical Programme Management oversight experience with an appreciation of the food sector and its water impacts to translate this subject expertise into meaningful, impactful initiatives. We’re looking for a solutions-oriented candidate who will have:
- Experience of developing and implementing strategies for impact in sustainability.
- Excellent collaboration skills and evidence of developing your own and other’s capabilities to achieve high-performing, happy teams.
- Experience of leading programme teams in a multi-stakeholder context, working externally with senior stakeholders and across teams internally to design, develop and implement holistic programmes in line with impact strategy, including working with income generation teams to identify and secure funding.
- Ability to actively lead internal and external problem solving; work with high personal autonomy; a passion for creating and scaling new ways of working/ business models to enable impact and income growth.
About WRAP
WRAP is a climate action NGO working around the globe to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future. Our vision is a thriving world in which climate change is no longer a problem.
At WRAP we believe that our natural resources shouldn’t be wasted. And that everything we use should be re-used and recycled. Our mission is to make the world a more sustainable place. We bring people together, we act on the facts, and we drive change.
Our core purpose is to help tackle climate change and protect our planet by changing the way things are produced, consumed and disposed of.
If you join us at WRAP – and we think you should – you'll help us by tackling sustainable product design, reducing waste, encouraging re-use or advocating recycling across the food and drink, plastic packaging, clothing and textiles and the collections and recycling sectors.
You can help us all to do better.
Ready to help us save the planet?
Our people are what make WRAP unique. If you think you have what it takes, but your experience looks different to what is advertised, please still apply.
We want to help you be your best, so please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustments during the recruitment process.
Find out more about equality, diversity and inclusion at WRAP here.
Find out more about life at WRAP here.
Our benefits
Our values
Documents
Alternatively, please sign in with...
Published
Not PublishedClosing
in X days