Senior Policy and Programme Officer

The Directorate is also responsible for regeneration (where the programme is not housing led), enterprise, growth, capital projects and design work.

About the team

The Green Infrastructure team develops and delivers programmes to achieve the Mayor's ambitions for a greener and more climate resilient London, with greater access to green space and where nature flourishes. We ensure the economic and social value of green infrastructure is embedded in decision making about the city.

The team's portfolio includes work on Nature. Biodiversity & Rewilding, Trees & Woodlands and Green Spaces & Urban Greening, plus cross-cutting issues, such as data & evidence, strategy & planning, green finance and more.

About the role

Would you like to transform London to make it greener and support climate resilience and nature recovery in the capital? We're looking for a Senior Policy and Programme Officer to join City Hall's Green Infrastructure team to do just that.

This is a unique opportunity to help achieve the Mayor's ambition to make London a leader in green infrastructure and urban rewilding, ensure that London remains more than half green and to ensure more Londoners benefit from having green space near where they live. Reporting to a Principal Policy and Programme Officer, you'll lead a portfolio of work to deliver green infrastructure projects and programmes and develop policy and evidence, with a focus on trees and woodlands.

You will help shape, develop and deliver a programme of funding, capacity building and innovation/research to further the Mayor's ambition to increase canopy cover in the capital and support London's urban forest. You will need experience of successfully delivering policy or project work related to trees and woodlands, and ideally be able to demonstrate an understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing trees in urban areas.

To succeed in this role you will need to bring a good knowledge of environmental policy and a proven track record of working effectively with stakeholders to achieve positive change. You'll need to be able to demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences, preferably with some experience of doing this in a political environment, as well as strong project management skills. You'll need to be flexible, adaptable, organised, and have a collaborative approach, as this role requires working on multiple initiatives simultaneously.

This role is fixed to 31st March 2026, although there is the possibility of the role being extended. There is also the possibility of additional roles becoming available.

What your day will look like:

• Managing a portfolio of Green Infrastructure work and supporting specific Mayoral projects, policies and programmes.
• Assisting in the development and management of projects and policies, including procuring and managing consultants and contractors.
• Managing, monitoring and reporting on project delivery, including financial management of project budgets.
• Assisting in the establishment and maintenance of communications on technical and policy matters.
• Helping build new and maintain existing partnerships, to assist in delivery of initiatives to implement the Mayor's policies and programmes, including negotiating funding and identifying opportunities for inter-disciplinary working.
• Contributing to the provision of advice (to the Mayor and his staff, senior managers, Members of the Assembly, and Functional Bodies, GLA staff, government departments, London-based and national organisations) on environmental matters.
• Preparing responses to questions and correspondence to the Mayor and from Londoners, Assembly members, Government departments and other organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
• Building and maintaining an up-to-date awareness of legislative, technical and policy changes in the environment field.
• Gathering and analysing relevant data and evidence to ensure that strategy, policy, projects and programmes are developed with a solid evidence base and are capable of evaluation.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:
• Experience in the field of green Infrastructure policy, including strong professional knowledge
• Experience of research and policy development
• Experience of project development and management (including financial management and analysis, risk management and project evaluation).
• Ability to analyse and interpret environmental issues in relation to urban areas their causes, effects, and possible solutions.
• Well developed IT skills and experience of using a range of office and statistical software including word processing and spreadsheet packages to an advanced level.