Gardener

Location: Ramleh

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Starting at NIS11,382 per month, depending upon skills and experience.

Hours: Full Time, 41.5 hours per week, Mon – Fri

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Head Gardener, you are responsible for supervising and coordinating horticultural staff within your assigned group. Your duties include:

• Executing and supervising horticultural tasks: Providing clear instructions to the team for maintenance and renovation activities such as mowing grass, cleaning headstones, weeding, edging flower beds, pruning shrubs, levelling lawns, and planting flowers. Tasks will vary according to the season.
• Ensuring horticultural standards: Possessing comprehensive knowledge of the Commission's horticultural standards and demonstrating the ability to perform and coordinate all maintenance and renovation tasks to these standards.
• Daily planning and resource management: Preparing daily work schedules and overseeing the day-to-day management of personnel and other resources.
• Delivering exceptional results: Achieving green Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ensuring that all work meets the highest standards, as outlined in the Commission's Horticultural Manual, for all cemeteries within the group.
• Equipment and vehicle maintenance: Maintaining all horticultural equipment, tools, and vehicles in proper working condition, reporting any defects and arranging for necessary maintenance or repairs.
• Enforcing safety standards: Ensuring that safety protocols are followed and that personnel use the required personal protective equipment (PPE) and corporate workwear.
• Team leadership and development: Managing the team through the implementation of effective work practices, setting individual objectives, identifying training and development needs, and conducting regular performance reviews and appraisals.
• Attendance management: Monitoring staff attendance, reporting leave and absences to the office, and conducting return-to-work interviews.

What you need to have and able to demonstrate

• Proven horticultural and/or recognized professional qualifications
• Proficiency in local language, with a preference for additional English language skills
• Basic computer literacy
• Demonstrated leadership abilities
• Effective communication and listening skills
• Decision making skills
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Health and Safety responsibility for self and others

Who we are

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission honours the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, including maintaining our cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries.

What we offer

• 20 Annual Leave days, rising to 25 days after 5 years' service
• Monday to Friday 06:00 - 14:45 with a daily 30-minute meal break and 2 x 20-minute refreshment
• Growth opportunities supported by a range of training programs

As this is an active role, we will be interviewing as we go along, and the role will close when we have an offer accepted by a preferred candidate.