Green Impact Assistant- Part time- LSE

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 9 month part time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the sustainability team across London School of Economics and Political Sciences as a whole.

Background:

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. It has a strong tradition of teaching and research related to sustainable development, which will grow, especially with its new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, chaired by Lord Stern, who wrote the influential Stern Review of 2006. 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

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

http://www.changeagents.org.uk/Graduates/GradVacDetails.asp?ProjNo=2005