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Work for us
Find your future at CIEH.
CIEH is a professional membership body dedicated to improving health and wellbeing. We are a registered charity established by Royal Charter, based in the UK, but operating globally. We also run one of the country's most sustainable venues, 15Hatfields. Most of our staff now work remotely across the UK, except our venue team who are based at 15Hatfields in London.
On behalf of our 7,500 members and the wider environmental health profession, we campaign and provide information and evidence on environmental health issues to the Government and other key decision-makers.
Why work for us?
We’re advocates, activists, educators and experts, all of whom are dedicated to improving public health and wellbeing and supporting the profession. If that's something you're passionate about and want to make a difference, take a look at our vacancies below.
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.
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.
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 [email protected].
- Salary: £100,000-£110,000
- Based: Remote with travel throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Closing date: 17.00, Monday 18 August 2025
We are looking for a motivated and experienced HR professional to deliver high-quality HR operations at CIEH. This is a broad and rewarding role - you’ll look after CIEH’s HR function, as well as modernising our systems and processes and acting as a key partner to teams across the organisation, helping to build a positive and high-performing workplace culture.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is excited by the opportunity to make improvements and have a significant impact.
If you have strong generalist HR experience, a good understanding of UK employment law and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, then we would love to hear from you.
To apply, please email a cover letter specifically explaining how you meet the person specification, along with your CV highlighting your relevant qualifications and experience, to [email protected].
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Based: Remote with occasional travel to the London office
- Salary: £44,000 - £46,000 per year
- Closing date: Friday 22 August
Please see the full job description and person specification for further details.
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 [email protected].
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.
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Based: Remote with travel throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Travel will include events, conferences, regional work, governance and management activities.
- Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per year
- Closing date: Monday 1 September
- First round interview: Tuesday 9 September
- Second round interview: Monday 15 September
Please see the full job description and person specification for further details.
Volunteer roles at CIEH
Roles with a formal and time-limited recruitment process will appear here.
There are a number of less formal ways for members to volunteer with CIEH - details can be found on our Become a CIEH volunteer page.
Jobs at 15Hatfields
View current vacancies at our conference and events venue.
| Contract tender | Description | Tender closing date |
|---|---|---|
This is a list of potential tenders that will be added to Open Contracts Tenders section once they have been defined, reviewed and approved, they are not a commitment to offer for tender. Note that further details are not yet available and tenders are subject to change without further notification.
| Category | Description | Estimated tender date |
|---|---|---|
| Events & Training HHSRS |
To update and implement a minimum of 5 CPD training courses, on the latest developments and government guidance on HHSRS. There may also be a requirement to deliver this training face to face. | |
| Events & Training Food Safety |
To develop a series of food safety training products from bite size to technical workshop. There may also be a requirement to deliver this training face to face. |
This is a list of contracts that have been awarded following implementation of the approved tender process. Estimated annual contract values are based on the current expectation of total costs to deliver the goods or services (including fees and expenses, excluding VAT). The estimates will be based on forecast volume and unit price assumptions, the actual final cost of the contracts may vary
| Contractor/ Service provider | Description | Estimated annual contract value (in £5,000 bands) |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Harvey | Governance Advisor Services - November 2024 | £25,000 - £30,000 |
| Mi-Voice (Democracy Technology Ltd) | Provision of services for Board of Trustee elections | £5,000 - £10,000 |
| UK-Engage (Print Image Network Ltd) | Provision of voting services for Annual General Meetings | £5,000 - £10,000 |
| Hardwick Comms/Wilson Assoc | Value of Environmental Health | £10,000 to £15,000 |
| TBC | CIEH Events: Imported Food | |
| Bacon EHS | EHP Pathway Interactive Exercises | £5,000 - £10,000 |
| DeHavilland | Political Monitoring Services | £10,000 - £15,000 |
| I.Andrews | Interim Head of Environmental Health | In accordance with staff bandings |
| Membership Matters | CRM & Website | £5,000 - £10,000 |
