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The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor's plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities. Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor's housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.

About The Team
The Land and Development team is within the Housing and Land Directorate. The Land and Development team supports GLA Land and Property Limited (GLAP), which is the Greater London Authority’s commercial subsidiary for property investment, development and assessment management. The team is responsible with the delivery of the GLAP portfolio of development on the Mayor's land and joint venture interests, alongside entering into new opportunities to unlock development outcomes. GLAP aims to deliver up to a total of 68,000 new homes on the Mayor's land and joint venture interests, including homes delivered to date and looking ahead over the next 25 years. Some of GLAP's schemes include some of London's largest regeneration projects, such as Royal Docks, Greenwich Peninsula and Barking Riverside. Sites are typically large-scale and mixed-use multi-phased development projects, working with our development partners collaboratively under development agreement delivery structures. While most sites are in contract with partners, others are in procurement, such as Royal Albert Dock. In addition to development land, GLAP holds a significant estate with investment properties, operational property and public realm. More information about GLAP, its activities and priorities can be read in its Property Asset Strategy and Annual Reports. All interested applicants should familiarise themselves with GLAP's Climate Action Strategy and Environmental Sustainability Framework.

About The Role
This is a leadership role, ensuring that GLAP is actively contributing to the delivery of Mayoral environmental sustainability and social value priorities and commitments. The role works across the GLA family delivery organisations, supporting collaboration and sharing of learning across the GLA group, with developers and policy teams. The Senior Sustainability Manager leads the implementation of GLAP's Climate Action Strategy, embedding sustainability requirements and outcomes in strategic development projects and estate management, and leads on embedding climate risk management practices within GLAP to ensure resilience to climate change.

What your day will look like

• Lead, across GLAP, implementation, delivery and reporting against GLAP's climate action strategy, including capturing and monitoring GLAP's emissions through the inventory model.
• Initiate, develop and oversee development of additional guidance documents to facilitate the delivery of GLAP's objectives.
• Lead implementation of GLAP's development standards, metrics and reporting, integrating requirements and outcomes within future GLAP development projects across residential and commercial projects.
• Develop innovative, joined-up delivery of climate actions securing benefits to GLAP's business plan.
• Lead implementation of GLAP's climate risk management and climate resilience and adaptation plan, including keeping the climate risk assessment up to date and ensuring its inclusion within decision making and broader risk management.
• Coordinate GLAP's climate budget and quarterly reporting in partnership with GLAP's Finance Director and the wider team.
• Facilitate and enhance collaboration between the different GLA development bodies, share lessons and build knowledge across the programme, and oversee group-wide metrics reporting to the collaboration programme as per agreed timescales.
• Build strategic relationships and partnerships within the GLA, across GLA bodies, developers and other stakeholders.
• Provide client-side sustainability input into Crystal Palace National Sports Centre redevelopment, operator procurement and ongoing management.

Skills, knowledge and experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:

• An appropriate professional qualification with significant regeneration and development experience, with demonstrable experience and success in supporting delivery of sustainability outcomes across major development projects and corporate activity.
• Strong understanding of relevant technical matters concerning sustainability, including procurement, design, project finance, planning and legal agreements for development transactions.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of commercial considerations in respect of sustainability and delivery, in the context of the property development process and land ownership.
• Proven experience contributing to the structuring of development agreements and joint ventures within the development sector, demonstrating good commercial awareness.
• Demonstrable experience implementing sustainability strategies and policies, including monitoring and reporting against them.

Behavioural Competencies
Building and Managing Relationships

Actively develops rapport and works effectively with a diverse range of people, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals. Level 3 indicators of effective performance:

• Actively engages partners and encourages others to build relationships that support GLA objectives.
• Understands the needs of others, constraints they face and levers to engagement.
• Understands differences, anticipates conflicts and takes action.
• Fosters an environment where others feel respected.
• Delivers objectives by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work effectively in partnership.

Decision Making

Is forming sound, evidence-based judgments, making choices, assessing risks to delivery, and taking accountability for results. Level 3 indicators of effective performance:

• Makes sound decisions quickly on behalf of the GLA when a situation requires intervention.
• Takes responsibility for team decisions, providing rationale when those decisions are questioned.
• Involves senior stakeholders early in decisions that impact them.
• Analyses organizational risks associated with decisions, including long-term impacts, before acting.
• Encourages others to make decisions in their own area of expertise, take appropriate risks and learn from experience.

Organisational Awareness

Understanding organisational dynamics, culture and politics across and beyond the GLA and shaping our approach accordingly. Level 3 indicators of effective performance:

• Uses understanding of differences between the GLA and its partners to improve working relationships.
• Helps others understand the GLA and the complex environment it operates in.
• Translates changing political agendas into tangible actions.
• Considers the diverse needs of Londoners in formulating GLA objectives.
• Helps others understand how media and external perceptions influence work.

Planning and Organising

Thinking ahead, managing time, priorities and risk, and developing structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time to a high standard.

• Monitors allocations of resources, anticipating changing requirements that may impact work delivery.
• Ensures evaluation processes are in place to measure project benefits.
• Identifies and consults with sponsors or stakeholders in planning work.
• Implements quality measures to ensure directorate output is of a high standard.
• Negotiates realistic timescales for work delivery, ensuring team deliverables can be met.

Strategic Thinking

Translates GLA vision and strategy into practical plans for delivery; considers wider implications of actions for the organisation’s long-term potential.

• Takes account of a wide range of public and partner needs to inform teams' work.

The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines detailing each competency and its indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework.

This role is based at City Hall, Royal Docks, but will also require working at London Fire Brigades Head Office.

How to apply

If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:

• Up to date CV
• Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words addressing how you demonstrate the essential criteria above.

CV and Personal Statement must be under 1.5MB each. Upload your Personal Statement to the CV and Cover Letters section of the form. Prefer Word or PDF format; do not include photographs. Save files with the job reference number in the naming convention (e.g., CV applicant name - 012345).

As part of GLAs commitment to being an inclusive and equal opportunity employer, personal identifiable information will be removed from CVs and Personal Statements to prevent discrimination.

If you have questions about the role

To speak with the hiring manager, Sarah Birt, Head of Development, please contact her at Sarah.Birt[at]london.gov.uk. For recruitment process questions, contact theglaopdcrecruitment[at]tfl.gov.uk.

Assessment process

Submitted applications will be reviewed by a panel. If shortlisted, you will be invited to an interview/assessment. Interview date: Week commencing 29th September 2025.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

London's diversity is its biggest asset. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability, and particularly encourage applicants from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic communities and disabled candidates who are underrepresented. Flexible working arrangements, including part-time and job share, are welcome. Disability Confident Employer: candidates meeting essential criteria will be invited to interview. Adjustments available on request.

Benefits

GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in offices and remotely. Salary package with good benefits including 30 days annual leave, interest-free season ticket and bicycle loans, and a career-average pension scheme.

Additional Information

All candidates must confirm information provided is true and correct. False information may disqualify from consideration. Successful candidates may require a DBS check or additional security screening. If you have a disability and need help submitting an application, contact resourcingteam@london.gov.uk.

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