Employer : Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Location : Remote with travel throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Job Type : Permanent
Salary/Remuneration :£100,000-£110,000
Closing Date : 5pm on Monday 18 August 2025
About CIEH
CIEH is dedicated to promoting professional standards and enhancing environmental health practices that protect environmental health across communities. As an organisation, we play avital role in addressing some of the most pressing public health challenges of our time, including air quality, food safety, housing standards, climate change and environmental sustainability. Having emerged from a significant period of change, CIEH has an ambitious new strategy in place that, informed by engagement with our members, seeks to raise the profile of environmental health, and nurture a thriving environmental health profession with a strong and influential voice, supported and championed by a strong professional body.
About the role
The new role of Director of Environmental Health Services is critical in delivering our work to raise the profile of environmental health and nurture a thriving environmental health profession. The role will have responsibility for our professional standards, for developing our member services offering and for the full range of our policy and public affairs work.
Our members are passionate about the difference that environmental health makes to people’s lives everywhere, every day. Your role will be to lead the teams that set and monitor the standards practiced by the profession, the development and provision of services to our members, and to shape our policy work and to ensure that our advocacy and influence reaches throughout our stakeholder community across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You will use your understanding of the profession to enhance the profile and impact of environmental health disciplines at local, national and international levels.
About You
You will be a qualified Environmental Health practitioner with broad experience across all areas of the profession and dedicated to the positive impact we can have. You will have operated at a strategic level, shaping policy and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including those in both local and central government. A genuinely collaborative leader, you will also be able to develop others and utilise the skills and abilities of a multi-disciplinary team. You will be passionate about developing the environmental health profession, bringing to this role your own commitment to ensuring the voice of the profession, and the Institute, are heard influentially throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
To Apply
This is an exciting time to join CIEH as we deliver our strategic vision for the years to come. If you think are you the right person for this critical role, or would value a conversation to explore any questions and your suitability in more detail, please visit www.gatenbysanderson.com or email matt.malone@gatenbysanderson.com.
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