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Parks Services Manager

Contract – 6-12 Month Maternity Cover- Full time

Salary – £37,851 – £40,506

Location: Town Hall Extension, Argyle Street, WC1H 8NP

Camden Council currently has a contract opportunity for a Parks Services Manager to join their Parks and Open Spaces team.

Role Purpose:

Ensuring a long term strategic overview and the delivery of a range of high profile and quality parks services that support park users.

Identifying best practice in parks management and developing local initiatives such as volunteering and community food growing, allotments, income generation, developing parks Friends’ groups.

Supervising the park ranger team.

About You:

You will be a high energy individual with drive and enthusiasm to continuously improve the park user experience and how we work with the community. You will have experience of working with community groups and organisations, delivering projects in partnership with external organisations and managing a team of staff and volunteers.

Role Requirements

• An understanding of how to deter anti-social behaviour and work with our communities to deliver sustainable quality
• Experience of driving improvement
• Ability to take responsibility for quality of service and team leadership
• Finely tuned analysis and judgement skills
• Confidence and resilience to deal with unexpected situations
• Experience of working with contacts where a high degree of discretion, sensitivity and advocacy is needed
• Experience of managing staff and resources
• Knowledge of park issues within an inner city

Additional Information

Camden is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

How to apply:

To apply for this job please follow the “Apply for this job” link. As part of the application form you will be asked to explain how you meet the key requirements for this role listed in the advert. When explaining how you meet each of the requirements, please give examples that clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience. When writing your examples give a brief description of the situation or task but focus on the actions you took and the result of your actions.

Closing date for applications: 16th February 2012 @ 23:59

Interviews to be held: W/C 20th February. Please quote reference: LBC1827

For further information about this role, please refer to the Job Profile