Environmental Sustainability Project Manager

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sustainability Project Manager to lead the delivery of the Green Plan (2025-2028) across Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will play a key role in driving forward carbon reduction initiatives, improving resource efficiency, and embedding sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

The role requires strong project management skills, stakeholder engagement, and a solid understanding of sustainability within a healthcare setting.

Applicants should have demonstrable experience delivering complex projects, ideally within the NHS or a similarly regulated environment, with a focus on environmental sustainability and organisational change.

The successful applicant will join a collaborative and forward-thinking team, working closely with estates, procurement, clinical services, and corporate departments to deliver measurable environmental improvements.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading specialist NHS Trust, supporting innovation, education, and research while advancing sustainability across hospital and community settings.

Moorfields is committed to delivering high-quality patient care alongside its environmental responsibilities, and this role will be instrumental in shaping and implementing sustainable healthcare practices across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To lead the delivery of sustainability projects across the Trust, ensuring alignment with the Moorfields Green Plan and wider NHS Net Zero targets.

To identify, develop and implement initiatives that reduce carbon emissions, improve resource efficiency, and embed environmentally sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

To support the development and monitoring of sustainabilityprogrammes, including data collection, analysis, and reporting on environmental performance.

To ensure robust governance of projects, including risk management, financial oversight, and delivery against agreed timelines and outcomes.

To provide expert advice and guidance on sustainability to colleagues across theorganisation, promoting best practice and supportingbehaviour change initiatives. To contribute to staff engagement, educationand training to embed a culture of sustainability throughout the Trust.

Torepresentthe Trust in regional and national sustainability networks, contributing to the development of NHS-wide initiatives and sharing learning and innovation.

To support the Trust's reputation as a leader in sustainable healthcare through collaboration, research, and continuous improvement.

Person specification

Education / Qualfications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Masters qualification or equivalent (or working towards same)
• Sustained record of continued professional development/ sustainability-specific qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of managing complex, large-scale and high-profile projects
• Experience of delivering of transformation projects, with focus on sustainability

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Analytical and data-evaluation skills, with the ability to solve complex problems
• Strong grasp of managing project finances and budgets

Knowledge

Essential

• Familiarity with key project management frameworks and tools

About the employer

Join Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At Moorfields, people's sight matters-and so do the people who make it possible.

For over 200 years, Moorfields has been at the forefront of ophthalmic care, research, and education. With more than 2,300 dedicated team members and over700,000 patientsseen annually across our City Road site and 22 networked sites, we are proud to be a global centre of excellence.

We'realso a vibrant community where kindness,equityand excellence shape every aspect of our work. Whetherit'spioneering research through our partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre or training the next generation of global eye care leaders,we'reunited by one mission-delivering world-class eye health, sustainably and at scale.

Andwe'rejust getting started.

From 2027,we'llmove to our brand-new Oriel site in St Pancras, Camden-a state-of-the-artcentrethat will unite eye care, research, and education under one roof.This groundbreaking facility, developed in partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity, will enable transformative innovation and collaboration like never before.

Could you be part of this future? Make us more.