Compliance Lead

Salary: £36,000 to £38,000 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week.

Reports to: Estates and Facilities Manager

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

Extra Information: Open to conversation on flexible and compressed working arrangements.

About the role:

We are looking for a Compliance Lead to join our team, with a strong background in environmental management and/or health and safety. In this role, you will be responsible for the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the Motability Foundation’s Integrated Management System, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation as well as internal health, safety, and environmental standards.

You will also play a key role in driving the organisation’s Environmental Sustainability Action Plan forward and maintaining our ISO accreditations, supporting our commitment to continuous improvement and responsible business practices.

What you will be doing:

• Be the first point of contact for environmental queries at Motability Foundation.
• Stay up to date with relevant changes to health, safety and environmental legislation and initiatives, briefing the Estates and Facilities Team as necessary.
• Provide advice and guidance to the organisation on Environmental Sustainability matters.
• Take a leading role in ensuring that Motability Foundation are compliant with their ESOS (energy savings opportunity scheme) submission.
• Implement the actions from the ESOS submission.
• Produce the annual SERC report for the Motability Foundation, in line with ARA deadlines.
• Implement and manage the IMS (Integrated Management System) for the Motability Foundation. Gaining and maintaining ISO14001, ISO50001, ISO14064 and ISO45001 accreditations.
• Manage the delivery of actions from the Environmental Sustainability Action Plan. Assist the Estates and Facilities Manager with the development of future plans.
• Regularly review the aspect and impacts register for the organisation.
• Assess, analyse, and collate health, safety and environmental performance data monthly, reporting to the Estates and Facilities Manager and other key stakeholders.
• Implement recommendations from audits and risk assessments.
• Implement an internal and external Environmental Sustainability Communications Plan.
• Investigate accidents and incidents to identify root causes and remedial actions.
• Research, obtain and or provide environmental training to staff at all levels.
• Support the Motability Foundation in achieving its long-term Carbon Emission plans.
• Engage tenants and suppliers with our environmental agenda, encouraging them to adopt a similar focus.
• Prepare budget requests for Environmental Sustainability, submitting these to the Estates and Facilities Manager.
• Work collaboratively with the Motability Operations Environmental Sustainability Team.

Your experience:

Must haves:

• Educated to degree level in environmental science / management or equivalent, or proven track record of extensive work experience.
• Proven track record of extensive work experience in Health and Safety Management.
• Membership with IEMA and IOSH or similar professional body.
• Experience of implementing ISO’s in health, safety and environmental sustainability.

Nice to haves:

• Related post graduate qualifications.
• Knowledge of the ESOS submission practices.
• Experience of producing SECR reports for ARA.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Who are we?

We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.

We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Why choose us?

We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you’ve ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.

We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.

We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.

We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.

A career with Motability Foundation can offer you so much more than earning potential, we pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:

• 26 days annual leave, plus the option to buy/ sell up to five days.
• One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.
• Pension scheme - Up to 20%, including a 10% non-contributory contribution and matched contributions up to 5%.
• Life Assurance of four times your salary.
• Private healthcare through BUPA for you and your family, along with a Medicash Health Plan.
• Employee assistance programme: GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, sick pay and free gym and yoga sessions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave, including Adoption Pay.
• Free parking, EV charge points and a minibus service to/from the town centre and train station.
• Fresh fruit, breakfast snacks, and a Dress for Your Day dress code.
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.