Green Impact Assistant- Part Time - University of Sheffield

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Background:

The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a large organisation with almost 25,000 students, 5,500 staff and several hundred buildings. Due to its size and nature, the University’s activities have significant environmental impacts affecting the local and global environment. The University recognises its impact and has made a corporate commitment to improving its environmental performance by developing and adopting an Environmental Policy. This has been in place since 1997 (and recently revised) and provides the framework for all work in energy management, waste and recycling and sustainable transport. The University’s efforts have been recognised, with accreditation under the Carbon Trust Standard achieved, demonstrating success in committing to reducing its impact on climate change. To complement the significant environmental management activity the University is already engaged in, we will again be working on behaviour change projects. These have been successfully implemented over the past two years and we hope to build on this success in 2011-12. 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. For more information on Green Impact please go to: http://www.eauc.org.uk/green_impact http://www.nus.org.uk/greenimpactpledge

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 26-week part time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the environment team across Sheffield University as a whole.

Benefits To Graduate

The successful student or graduate 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. The part- time nature of this role will enable the graduate to develop not only the skills and outputs required as part of Green Impact, but also to work as an integral part of the environment team to create and drive forward further initiatives across the university’s staff, students and estates.

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

http://changeagents.org.uk/Graduates/GradVacDetails.asp?ProjNo=2000