Employer : Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Location : Remote with travel throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Job Type : Permanent
Salary/Remuneration : £60,000-£65,000
Closing Date : Monday 01 September 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 Head of Environmental Health Workforce Programme is critical in delivering our work to ensure that CIEH is the lead organisation in developing a sustainable approach to the environmental health workforce in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. And, crucially, that the approach defined and implemented gives the profession the best chance of securing a thriving, resilient workforce.
Our members are passionate about the difference that environmental health makes to people's lives everywhere, every day. Your role will be to agree definitions and scope of the environmental health workforce, work with partners to develop workforce strategies in all nations and then develop and support the implementation of workforce action plans.
About You
You will be a senior manager with an understanding and experience of the environmental health profession and are dedicated to the positive impact we can have. You will have operated at a senior level, shaping policy and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, including those in both local and central government. A genuinely collaborative operator, you will also be able to work with and influence others. You will be passionate about advocating for the environmental health profession, bringing to this role your own commitment to ensuring that CIEH delivers positive outcomes in favour of the environmental health workforce.
To Apply
This is an exciting time to join CIEH as we deliver on our new strategy. If you think you are the right person for this critical role, please email a cover letter explaining how you meet the person specification, along with your CV highlighting your relevant qualifications and experience, to f.mccloskey@cieh.org.
If you would value a conversation to explore any questions or discuss your suitability in more detail, please feel free to get in touch via the same email address.
Please see the full job description and person specification for further details.
