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Title | Sustainable Behaviour Assistant - London |
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Employer: Change Agents UK Trading Limited Salary (per annum pro rata): £18,540 p.a., pro rata (london weighting) Interview Date: 18/19th September Telephone Interviews commencing: 12/09/13. Please make sure you are contactable during the stated week. Closing Date: 07/09/13 Start Date: 30th September Length of Opportunity: 6 months Hours/Week: 17.5 hrs per week Work outside normal hours: Possibility of some work outside normal hours to undertake audits. Base: Swan House, Kingston-upon-Thames Department: Sustainability Hub Reports to: Operations Sustainability Manager Background Enterprising. Exceptional. Evolving. Kingston University is yours to achieve. Our new ‘Led by Learning’ strategy aims to embed sustainability within teaching and research, and across our operations. Working closely with staff across the University, the role of Sustainable Behaviour Assistant will help us to do just that. There has never been a more exciting moment to join us. Kingston University is based in Kingston upon Thames, a busy riverside town on the borders of south-west London and Surrey. Originally founded in 1899 and becoming a university in 1992, Kingston University has over 23,000 students who study across 5 campus sites. 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 Objectives 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 6 month part-time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the sustainability team across Kingston as a whole. Output 1 Coordinate and support the Green Impact project to encourage pro-environmental behaviour change across the institution and wider community. Output 2 Increase number of students and staff with pro-environmental knowledge and awareness Output 3 Successful delivery of the University’s Green Impact project by the specified completion dates Output 4 Provide quantitative and qualitative data relating to the scheme to the EAUC Output 5 Develop and drive forward wider environmental projects across the university Key Task 1 Meet with stakeholders around the University (staff and student groups) to encourage their early involvement in all of the planned communications through local launch of the project Key Task 2 Plan, deliver and evaluate the Green Impact project through amendment, distribution and collation of the Workbook in partnership with departmental teams Key Task 3 Recruit, coordinate and motivate teams of volunteers to drive forward the University’s Green Impact project through their involvement as departmental teams and as auditors Key Task 4 Ensure that all records and information are collated and disseminated effectively, in line with the requirements of the project, and facilitate discussion and drive forward agendas with key contacts and participants Key Task 5 To assist the Sustainability Hub in conducting appropriate environmental surveys of relevance to the Project (for example, lights left on unnecessarily, windows left open, recycling bin contents) Key Task 6 Prioritise key tasks and workload to ensure successful delivery to time frames specified by the project aims, and actively network with other Sustainable Behaviour Assistants to ensure sharing of best practice across the sector Key Task 7 Act as an ambassador for the project and ensure effective communication of its aims and objectives in liaison with the Student Union and through other partners and external channels and keep in regular contact with the EAUC Green Impact Project Officer and attend phone or face-to-face meetings when required Key Task 8 To assist with other projects relevant to Green Impact being conducted by the Sustainability Hub, and to investigate external funding sources for further projects that would complement it when appropriate and fitting with the demands of the Green Impact project Key Task 9 To support the Director of the Sustainability Hub and Operations Sustainability Manager in editing and updating the university’s sustainability web site and other web pages that may be of integral use to the Green Impact project Key Task 10 Organise and facilitate an Awards Ceremony for the participating departments in line with the timescales of the project and with the aim of celebrating the successes and impacts of the teams and the project. Benefits of working with Change Agents UK Change Agents UK is an environmental and educational charity, which enables young people and graduates to work with businesses and community groups to learn about, promote sustainable development, and become more employable. With this service Change Agents UK will provide: Training and Development Opportunities • An Introductory Meeting to provide guidance for the successful completion of the Opportunity, and to detail the training opportunities and support offered by both the client and Change Agents UK. Personal Specification Essential Selection Criteria 1 Weighting: 5 Essential Selection Criteria 2 Weighting: 5 Essential Selection Criteria 3 Weighting: 3 Essential Selection Criteria 4 Weighting: 4 Essential Selection Criteria 5 Weighting: 3 Essential Selection Criteria 6 Weighting: 5 Essential Selection Criteria 7 Weighting: 4 Essential Selection Criteria 8 Weighting: 5 Desirable Selection Criteria 1 Weighting: 3 Desirable Selection Criteria 2 Weighting: 3 Desirable Selection Criteria 3 Weighting: 2 Desirable Selection Criteria 4 Weighting: 4 For more information and details on how to apply, please visit the Change Agents UK website: http://www.changeagents.org.uk/sustainability-jobs/ |