At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and management of innovative waste strategies for a sustainable future.
- Company: Cambridgeshire County Council, committed to environmental sustainability and community service.
- Benefits: Wellbeing package, flexible leave, development opportunities, and paid volunteering hours.
- Other info: Join a diverse team dedicated to positive community change and personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on waste transformation and contribute to climate objectives.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in strategy development within local government or public sector.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a significant waste transformation programme. With major national reforms, evolving environmental legislation and a drive for optimising value for money, environmental outcomes and service delivery from our contracted services, we are seeking an exceptional Waste Strategy Manager on a temporary basis until the end of March 2028 (with the potential for an extension to this date) to lead this complex and high‑profile agenda.
What will you be doing?
- Leading the design, coordination and programme management of long‑term waste strategy and waste transformation workstreams.
- Providing expert commercial, technical and legislative advice to senior officers, Elected Members and the Programme Board.
- Overseeing procurement and negotiation of waste service options, ensuring alignment with waste hierarchy principles and circular economy objectives.
- Managing complex interdependencies across all programme workstreams, identifying risks, issues and opportunities.
- Building strong partnerships with district councils, national agencies, contractors, consultants and the RECAP partnership.
- Ensuring programme delivery supports carbon reduction, climate objectives and the Council's Net Zero commitments.
- Representing the Council at senior level meetings, influencing local, regional and national waste policy discussions.
About you
We are looking for someone with a strong track record of developing and delivering strategies, ideally within a complex local government or public sector environment. The postholder should be a confident leader with excellent analytical, financial and programme management capabilities, able to influence senior stakeholders, manage change effectively and translate strategic objectives into practical, deliverable outcomes that support environmental sustainability and value for money.
Our benefits
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro‑rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in‑store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Cambridgeshire County Council is a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the hiring manager to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
Our values
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.
Waste Strategy Manager employer: Cambridge County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises employee wellbeing and professional growth. With a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible leave options, development opportunities, and a commitment to equality and diversity, employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact in their community while advancing their careers in a dynamic public sector environment.
