Your chance to lead on the establishment of a Nature & Biodiversity Task Force, ensuring nature recovery and biodiversity objectives are woven into the growth-enhancing activities of the East Midlands Combined County Authority. Welcome to EMCCA EMCCA is the UK’s first mayor-led combined county authority. The East Midlands is a great region. But it deserves to be better. Better connected, better funded and better prepared for a future of opportunity, growth, and hope. EMCCA will oversee devolved powers around transport, housing, skills and adult education, economic development, and net zero. We will conceive the strategies and create the connections that will empower local partners, people and businesses – maximising the impact of billions of pounds of funding. Together, our new EMCCA team can put the East Midlands on the map as a place to live, work and study. Your role in elevating the East Midlands You will lead on the establishment of the Task Force, its composition and work, supporting and promoting nature recovery and protecting and restoring biodiversity across the region. The Task Force will work with existing Local Nature Recovery Strategies and advise the Mayor and County Combined Authority on how to ensure that regional biodiversity goals are achieved effectively and efficiently. It will be your responsibility to draw on comprehensive evidence to create a clear purpose and acti...