Sustainable Business Programme Manager
ROLE SUMMARY
Are you passionate about sustainability and helping businesses achieve their net-zero goals? Groundwork are seeking a dynamic Sustainable Business Services (SBS) Programme Manager to lead and grow our impactful team.
As the SBS Programme Manager, you will:
- Lead a team delivering services such as energy audits, decarbonization strategies, environmental training, and carbon management.
- Drive business growth by identifying opportunities and developing innovative public and private sector partnerships.
- Oversee a programme budget (approx. £250,000 in 24/25), ensuring high-quality delivery and measurable impact.
- Manage funding proposals, including medium to large-scale projects
- Provide strategic leadership, fostering a positive team culture aligned with our values of inclusion, sustainability, and learning.
Job Description – Sustainable Business Programme Manager
JOIN THE GROUNDWORK TEAM
We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:
- Community engagement
- Landscape design & build
- Training & coaching for employment
- Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
- Safe & sustainable business support
As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.
Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester and beyond, read on.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply please send CV and cover letter ensuring you use the Job Description to carefully outline why you think you are suitable for this post and covering why you want to become the Programme Manager, how do your skills & experience make you a good candidate.
We also request that you complete our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring Form. If you prefer not to share this information, every question has a “prefer not to say” option which we would encourage you to use. Any information collected is used only for the purposes of monitoring the implementation of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy and procedures during recruitment and selection. The information is not used in any way to inform the shortlisting process. Data is held securely and is not provided to any member of the selection panel.
Equality Diversity Inclusion Monitoring Form
Please send these documents to gmrecruitment@groundwork.org.uk and title the email ‘SBS Programme Manager’.
Should you require assistance with any aspect of the application process please contact us in advance so that we can agree reasonable adjustments that we can put in place for you. For this, or to discuss any questions you may have about the role, please contact greville.kelly@groundwork.org.uk
Please note we would like to speak to candidates interested in this role ASAP therefore please submit your application ASAP and we will reply with our response within 5 working days.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service.