Nuclear Waste Services has an opening for a Regional Manager - GDF Siting who will lead and manage the delivery of siting activities in Lincolnshire.
The role will be fully responsible for leading the team implementing the Working With Communities Policy objectives, managing the developer’s contribution to the Community Partnership, leading coordination of the site evaluation programme of studies in the community, and managing the GDF programme and NWS reputation locally. They will lead support from enabling functions such as Communications, Commercial, Legal Major Permissions, and others.
The role holder will be responsible for establishing partnerships and collaboration with local stakeholders, and leading activities to ensure the GDF programme’s objectives are understood and accounted for in local decision making. They will represent the GDF programme at different forums in the region, including but not restricted to the LEP, Chambers of Commerce, Local authorities, and other stakeholder forums.
The Regional Manager will drive decision making and proactively manage issues and risks/opportunities, providing timely and effective reporting to ensuring that there are no surprises for key stakeholders.
- Lead the local team to achieve the safe, timely and good quality operational delivery of siting activity in the community to meet the GDF Programme objectives in Lincolnshire;
- Lead representation of Nuclear Waste Services on the Community Partnership and other local forums;
- Lead the effective, targeted and evidence-led stakeholder engagement, collaboration and negotiation of partnerships to support the GDF programme objectives locally;
- Ensure the effective implementation of community engagement and site evaluation policy, processes and procedures and with effective governance and control;
- Establish a local presence and lead teams that realise opportunities for delivering early local social, economic and environmental value through the Community Partnership;
- Ensure accurate reporting on progress is provided to appropriate stakeholders;
- Provide effective leadership and support, including coaching and mentoring as appropriate, to the GDF Programme team and enabling functions;
- Own risk and issue management across projects and the GDF Programme to ensure risks and issues are managed proactively effectively and, where appropriate, escalated to the RWM Programme Boards so that there are no surprises for key stakeholders;
- Own the management of scope, schedules, assumptions and dependencies across projects and the GDF Programme to ensure effective configuration and change control;
- Work with functional leads and other project managers to ensure that sufficient resource (internal and external, including any required external spend) is secured, allocated and prioritised to deliver the required activities locally.
- Visible leadership - able to lead through engaging, motivating, coaching and empowering others.
- Experience of establishing strong positive relationships with communities, stakeholders, local Government officers and Members, volunteer groups and the supply chain.
- Experience (5 years plus) of leading teams that deliver significant scale outcomes through managing and engaging effectively with external stakeholders in project or other outreach environments.
- Experience in leading operational delivery teams working in communities to deliver outcomes in collaboration with others.
- Experience leading, motivating and managing multi-disciplinary teams, including internal and external resources, to drive integration, teamwork and problem solving while holding teams accountable for performance.
- Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of complex community based activities at pace to high quality.
- Experienced and comfortable with change with the ability to work with an organisation that is undergoing significant transformation and can demonstrate a proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Collaboration - able to establish and develop collaborative relationships with communities, internal and external stakeholders, bringing people together.
- Working with ambiguity - able to build consensus and set direction in uncertain situations and apply knowledge and techniques to reduce ambiguity.
- Conflict resolution – able to recognise, anticipate and effectively deal with existing or potential conflicts or disconnects at individual, team or strategic levels.
- Communication - demonstrably strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation, and at all levels of seniority.
