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Background:
The University of Westminster employs 2,000 staff and educates over 21,000 students from 150 countries. The University’s estate comprised of 28 buildings, listed to modern, 5 halls of residence - home to 1,500 students, 10 catering outlets, and the Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground at Chiswick. In light of this The University acknowledges its education and business activities will significantly impact the local, national and global environment. We are committed to continual improvement in our environmental performance. We are developing an environmental management system (EMS) to achieve this in a structured way, alongside initiatives to promote environmental and sustainability awareness and education. We are developing environmental performance indicators to assess our current and future level of environmental performance, and enable us to benchmark our performance against similar organisations and sector standards. The organisation will provide the human and financial resources required to achieve this.
The Green Impact Programme (http://www.green-impact.org.uk/) is a national behaviour change initiative headed by the National Union of Students (NUS) to promote and coordinate positive environmental behaviour change in university and college staff departments throughout the UK. Previously called ‘Green Impact Assistants’, Sustainable Behaviour Assistants will work with an institution’s Sustainability/ Environment Team to drive forward the Green Impact programme with the support of the NUS, SSO (Student Switch Off) and Change Agents UK.
About Green Impact
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
http://www.changeagents.org.uk/current-projects/green-impact
Objective:
This post will involve a coordinating and supportive role to ensure the effective implementation and impact of Green Impact and Student Switch Off in order to achieve an increase in the pro-environmental behaviours of students and staff within the university and union.
The Sustainable Behaviour Assistant will provide added capacity to enable successful delivery of the university’s Green Impact project by the specified completion dates.
This is a six month part-time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the sustainability team across University of Westminster as a whole.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW:
http://www.changeagents.org.uk/Graduates/GradVacDetails.asp?ProjNo=2058
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