Green Impact Assistant - Part Time - De Montfort University

IMPORTANT:  This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders.  Other applicants need not apply.

 

Objective: This post will involve a coordinating and supportive role to ensure the effective implementation and impact of the Green Impact project in order to achieve an increase in the pro-environmental behaviours of students and staff within the university.

The GIA will provide added capacity to enable successful delivery of the university's Green Impact project by the specified completion dates.

This is a 6 month part-time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the environment team across De Montfort University as a whole

 

Background:Green Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme that encourages pro-environmental behaviours by staff. It empowers sustainability champions within their workplace, helping them gain recognition for their environmental efforts, whilst playing on the competitive spirit of staff working in teams. It provides people and their departments with a tangible framework for improving their environmental performance, breaking down complex environmental issues into more manageable bite-sized chunks.

Green Impact forms part of the NUS’s wider strategy to support students’ unions by supporting them to green their own operations, their institutions and the wider community. All NUS environmental programmes seek to generate sustainable income for students’ unions by paying them to get involved in local delivery of our central projects. The environmental programmes are also committed to providing volunteering opportunities for students that will help with their employability, especially through skills that support the transition to a low carbon economy.

The scheme is all about practical actions that tackle common bad practice. A number of departments are audited to determine what common bad practices exist across an institution, and then a list of practical actions is developed to address them. These actions are carefully chosen so that any member of staff can do them on behalf of their team or department. From recycling, to investing in more efficient equipment, to encouraging biodiversity, or Fairtrade, the scheme covers a broad range of issues under the sustainability umbrella, all tailored to an individual institution to cover local policy and process.

• Green Impact provides a mechanism for finding, engaging and empowering environmental champions bottom-up, enabling them to take targeted practical action through the framework, in so doing tackling common bad practices

• It is a tried and tested way of getting staff to buy into to top-down environmental targets and policies

• It helps give keen green staff something to get their teeth into

De Montfort University (DMU) is committed to successfully shaping a sustainable world by combining research excellence, innovative thinking and ambitious plans for our estates. We are helping to turn words and targets into affordable technology, while changing the behaviour of people and organisations. In a world of complex social, economic and environmental challenges, our cutting-edge research and teaching in sustainability is helping to change the world one step at a time. DMU has approximately 18,000 students and 3000 staff all based within the city campus in Leicester.

The University is committed to addressing sustainability and environmental issues throughout all aspects of its work. Sustainability has been adopted as a key objective within the organisation’s Strategic Plan. The University has adopted a comprehensive approach to monitoring and reporting it greenhouse gas emissions through its carbon management plan. Within its baseline year the university has included emissions from staff and student commute, international student travel, UK based student travel and emissions arising from its procurement activities. DMU was the first university to assess its greenhouse gas emissions from procurement over a number of years.

The successful sapplicant will have opportunities to learn about being a team player, developing communication skills in different mediums and will gain project management skills including event planning and management, project implementation and evaluation.

For further information and how to apply please go to the link below;

http://www.changeagents.org.uk/Graduates/GradVacDetails.asp?ProjNo=1996