Integrated Waste Management (IWM) Programme Director

Description: We are seeking an individual to join NWS as an IWM Director!

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to enhance delivery of the NDA Waste Strategy.

This role is to provide leadership of the Integrated Waste Management Portfolio, with responsibility to drive a group wide approach to improving the management of solid waste across the NDA estate along two main components:

1. The establishment and maintenance of a Group Portfolio and associated governance arrangements to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual to optimise value for money in the delivery of IWM strategic outcomes;
2. The initiation, co-ordination and assurance of NWS owned group waste programmes aligned with best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of governance, management and cultural architecture to enable group waste change programme delivery in a balanced and prioritised manner;
• Engagement of diverse intergroup stakeholders, building and maintaining support to delivery of group waste change programmes;
• Oversee the organisation and management of the specific programme(s), ensuring the appropriate programme documentation, programme delivery structure, appropriation of funds, strategy, and planning.
• Lead on analysis and management of group IWM portfolio and programme risks, opportunities and issues are undertaken, effectively owned, and communicated.
• Oversee the Programme Managers to ensure the effective management of any programme supply chain framework arrangements including performance management, by maintaining strategic level working relationships with supply chain partners.
• Ensure that Programme Managers are reporting on their plans, progress against delivery of the specific group outcomes that support business benefits and strategic objectives.
• Hold to account the Programme Managers, Project Managers and Study Specialists assigned, who are responsible for managing and delivering technical work within the distinct areas of IWMP.
• Work in unison with other post holders to develop and deliver future frameworks to enable the IWMP to have access to an array of technical specialist skills and expertise from the supply chain.
• Where required, represent the IWMP as a stakeholder across other relevant NDA programmes.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Proven high level of competence in leading Projects, Programmes and Portfolio Management.
• Degree in relevant discipline and preferably chartered with a professional body or demonstrable experience in a similar role.
• Proven leadership skills, a high level of business resilience and the ability to work under pressure, to effectively drive programme delivery in a complex multiple stakeholder environment.
• Evidence of competence in the delivery of both transformational led and specification led programmes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience in engaging with a range of stakeholders from operations managers, waste management professionals, Regulators, external bodies, and supply chain.
• Broadly-based familiarity with the overall NDA estate and radioactive waste management in the UK is desirable.

Please see attached our candidate pack for any other information.

Should you want to chat about the opportunity then our Director of Strategy & Waste, Paul Tuohy, would be available to you. Any request will be managed through the recruitment team.

Who are we?

Simply put, our job is to secure a safer future for us all. We do this by managing and disposing of the UK's nuclear radioactive waste safely and securely for generations to come. We have a critical role in the biggest multi-decade clean-up project in Europe. As part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group, we provide permanent answers for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Waste Services builds on the work delivered at the Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site and the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme, maintaining these key activities whilst also adding further essential services for customers in the nuclear energy, defence, industrial, medical, and research sectors. Maintaining and developing this knowledge and experience is key to securing and developing our unique nuclear waste capabilities for the UK and the rest of the world.

If you join Nuclear Waste Services, you'll be part of a team that brings together some of the most brilliant minds from around the UK, working across many specialisms - scientific, engineering, safety, operations, commercial, community engagement, and regulatory - to name a few.

We want Nuclear Waste Services to be a great place to work where people are respected, included and can perform at their best. We do this by living our Nuclear Waste Services values:

• We are action orientated - We deliver for our customers, partners, and people safely & securely.
• We are collaborative and inclusive - We have greater success when we work together.
• We are ambitious - We are problem solvers who embrace and act upon new challenges.
• We act with integrity - We are trusted to build a safe, secure and sustainable future.

What's in it for you?

• On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave.
• Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme).
• We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP.
• Learning and development support.
• Payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Financial advice assistance.
• Flexible working.
• Extended family-friendly policies.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• We welcome flexible and agile working practices.
• Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment.

Equal Opportunities:

We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. At Nuclear Waste Service we are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.

In promoting equal opportunities, Nuclear Waste Service welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Please note: Nuclear Waste Services reserves the right to close the vacancy early.

If you have any queries or would like to discuss this role, please email.