Description

Job reference: 001052
Salary: £76,004 per annum (full time equivalent)
Closing date: 15/01/2026
Department: Operations Department
Location: Hardshaw Brook Depot
Employment type: Fixed term
Division: Environment Waste & Traded Services
Hours Per Week: 28 hours per week up to full time - dependant on candidate and Partnership work programme for 2026
Weeks per year: 52.143
 
 
Job Description

The Liverpool City Region Waste & Resources Partnership is made up of 6 local authorities with responsibility for collecting household waste across the region (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral) and the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority, who are responsible for the treatment of this waste.

The Partnership currently funds a full-time Partnership Manager, who is due to take maternity leave from mid-Feb/early March 2026. As such, the Partnership is seeking cover for the following elements of the role

1. Programme Management

Keeping the Partnership’s 2026 work programme up to date including driving workstreams (through either direct responsibility or influencing stakeholders) and providing a strong and coherent link between all Partnership forums.

2. Work on behalf of the Partnership

A range of activities are required on behalf of the Partnership – from writing papers and running monthly Member briefing sessions to quality assurance of project work and chairing some Partnership forums.

3. Policy & technical advice

Maintaining close oversight of all national policy and legislative changes impacting the work of the Partnership in the short, medium and long term and feedback accordingly (including impact analysis and local interpretation where appropriate.

4. Oversight of Secretariat

Overseeing and maintaining the quality of the Secretariat function of the Partnership (which will be carried out by St Helens colleagues).

Remote working plus twice a month face-to-face at various locations within the Liverpool City Region for regular Partnership meetings, plus periodic ad hoc meets. Reasonable travel expenses will be paid.

The Partnership is actively looking for interest from a wide range of sources to cover the role in the form of a hybrid arrangement.

If successful candidate is hired on a self-employed and/or consultancy basis, arrangements will be reflective of this.

If successful candidate is hired from another local authority, this will be arranged as a secondment.

The position will be managed by St Helens, as per current arrangements.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send an Expression of Interest made up of a copy of your CV with a covering notes to outline your suitability for the role to trevornicoll@sthelens.gov.uk by Thursday 15th January 2026.

Initial interview to be held week commencing the 19th January 2026, with final interviews expected week commencing 26th January 2026.