Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sustainability Project Manager to lead the delivery of the Green Plan (2025-2028) across Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will play a key role in driving forward carbon reduction initiatives, improving resource efficiency, and embedding sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

The role requires strong project management skills, stakeholder engagement, and a solid understanding of sustainability within a healthcare setting.

Applicants should have demonstrable experience delivering complex projects, ideally within the NHS or a similarly regulated environment, with a focus on environmental sustainability and organisational change.

The successful applicant will join a collaborative and forward-thinking team, working closely with estates, procurement, clinical services, and corporate departments to deliver measurable environmental improvements.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading specialist NHS Trust, supporting innovation, education, and research while advancing sustainability across hospital and community settings.

Moorfields is committed to delivering high-quality patient care alongside its environmental responsibilities, and this role will be instrumental in shaping and implementing sustainable healthcare practices across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To lead the delivery of sustainability projects across the Trust, ensuring alignment with the Moorfields Green Plan and wider NHS Net Zero targets.

To identify, develop and implement initiatives that reduce carbon emissions, improve resource efficiency, and embed environmentally sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

To support the development and monitoring of sustainability programmes, including data collection, analysis, and reporting on environmental performance.

To ensure robust governance of projects, including risk management, financial oversight, and delivery against agreed timelines and outcomes.

To provide expert advice and guidance on sustainability to colleagues across the organisation, promoting best practice and supporting behaviour change initiatives. To contribute to staff engagement, education and training to embed a culture of sustainability throughout the Trust.

To represent the Trust in regional and national sustainability networks, contributing to the development of NHS-wide initiatives and sharing learning and innovation.

To support the Trust’s reputation as a leader in sustainable healthcare through collaboration, research, and continuous improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PROJECT DELIVERY

• Identify, initiate and co-ordinate appropriate project proposals to improve environmental sustainability..
• Ensure that project objectives, scope, deliverables, critical success factors and risks are clearly documented and agreed prior to project start.
• Establish a project team with appropriate operational, clinical and corporate team membership. Co-ordinate the input of stakeholders and service users to ensure that appropriate options are appraised and delivered.
• Perform benefits analysis and baseline current system performance before each project starts and ensure there is a plan in place for handover to the operational and clinical leads.
• Preparation and maintenance of all project documentation, including (but not limited to): project brief, project initiation document, appraisal options, risks, issues, decisions, lessons learned and actions logs, high level and detailed project plans, highlight reports, Project Board reports and papers and contribution to Transformation Team Programme Board reports and papers.
• Ensure all project documentation and reports are prepared and delivered as specified in the project communications plan and in line with agreed reporting schedules.
• Set-up and lead project team meetings, involving stakeholders and project team members. Responsible for controlling, directing, planning and allocating work and motivating service users to get directly, or indirectly involved with the project and its development.
• Manage the implementation costs and resources allocated to the project.
• Co-ordinate the activity of project team members and contributors ensuring that tasks and work packages are completed satisfactorily and on schedule.
• Regularly report on progress, monitoring progress against plan, delivery of the project objectives, and post project review including updating the lessons learned and decision logs.
• Undertake any additional duties appropriate to the post, as may be required by the service and as delegated by the Director for Service Improvement.

COMMUNICATIONS

• Provide advice and guidance to staff and managers across the Trust in relation to sustainability, act as an advocate and champion for sustainability.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with a number of operational, clinical and corporate management teams including developing good knowledge of the overall programme aims, objectives and initiatives so as to provide meaningful expert advice.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff and managers across the Trust in relation to sustainability.
• Represent the Trust to contractors, suppliers and providers in furtherance of project objectives.
• The post holder will be required to communicate and engage constructively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of highly complex, specialist and often contentious issues.

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Where relevant, responsibility for managing approved implementation costs and benefits delivery for projects, totalling a net worth between £50K to £2M.
• To work within the Trust's standing financial instructions and controls.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

• Line management (as required)
• Large scale (estimated 5-20 at any one time, manager and clinician level and above) relationship contacts requiring intensive influencing and relationship skills.
• Role model the Moorfield’s Way values and behaviours both individually and through the team.
• Ensure that behavioural expectations of team members are established.
• Ensure responsible staff have clarity of role and appropriate training as required.
• It is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure that they have undertaken all mandatory training, in line with Trust policies and procedures.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications Essential criteria:

• Higher education qualification / masters degree
• Proven project Management experience
• Sustainability-related qualifications

Experience Essential criteria:

Project management experience managing multiple complex projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation

Experience in delivering sustainability programmes in a healthcare setting

Proven experience of managing major transformational change projects to a successful conclusion including realising objectives and benefits delivery within the project deadline and costs

Experience of managing and delivering projects using an accepted project methodology.

Effective supervision of a project team where you do not have direct line management responsibility.

Working with operational managers, frontline operational and clinical staff and third party contractors.

Experience of business process mapping to identify and deliver change.

Effective analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options coupled with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.

Experience of report development and writing; ensuring the accuracy of information and effective translation for different audiences.

Must have experience of managing internal and external stakeholder engagement, including managing relationships and coordinating work between cross-functional teams.

Desirable criteria: Experience of operational and non-operational management in the NHS

Knowledge Desirable criteria:

• Working knowledge of a clinical operations environment and how to manage conflicting priorities to ensure projects are delivered.
• Knowledge of current healthcare policy in the NHS and how this applies to the local health economy.

Skills/abilities Essential criteria

• Able to manage and influence stakeholders internally and externally at all levels.
• Good presentation and communications skills both verbal and written.
• Proven ability to build and develop a successful team for each project, drawn from multiple teams across the Trust.
• Able to refer decisions appropriately, taking into account the needs of the situation, constraints and the availability of information.
• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.

Personal qualities

Essential criteria:

Deliver effectively:

• Be proactive, forward thinking and comfortable working on own initiative.
• Share creative and innovative ways of doing things with colleagues.

Demonstrate Accountability:

• Exhibit the necessary level of drive, independence and objectivity required to perform the role effectively.
• Flexible attitude and approach to work; willing, conscientious and adaptable.
• Be open to constructive challenge and look for ways to continually improve own performance and that of others.

Display integrity:

• Encourage trust through own actions.
• Enthusiastic self-starter with a positive committed and determined approach.
• Professional and positive approach.
• Be honest in dealing with others

Desirable criteria

• Understand the impact of own actions on the Trust and others in the Service Improvement team.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification:

Knowledge

Essential

• Familiarity with key project management frameworks and tools

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of managing complex, large-scale and high-profile projects
• Experience of delivering of transformation projects, with focus on sustainability

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Analytical and data-evaluation skills, with the ability to solve complex problems
• Strong grasp of managing project finances and budgets

Education / Qualfications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Masters qualification or equivalent (or working towards same)
• Sustained record of continued professional development/ sustainability-specific qualifications