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Title | Sustainable Behaviour Assistant - University of Oxford |
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IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
Employer: Change Agents UK Trading Limited Salary (per annum pro rata): £16,500 p.a., pro rata Interview Date: 19th September Telephone Interviews, Week Commencing: 9th – 13th September. Please make sure you are contactable during the stated week. Closing Date: 08/09/13 Start Date: 30/09/13 Length of Opportunity: 12 months Hours/Week: 36.5 Work outside normal hours: Possibility of some work outside normal hours to undertake audits and help with events Base: The Malthouse, Tidmarsh Lane Department: Estates Services. Reports to: Harriet Waters / Environmental Sustainability Projects Manager (currently being recruited). Background The University of Oxford is a complex and stimulating organisation, which enjoys an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence in research and teaching. It employs over 10,000 staff and has a student population of over 22,000. The environmental sustainability team consists of 6 members of staff working on areas identified by the University environmental sustainability policy. For more information please visit: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/estates/environment/ 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. AllNUS 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: 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 12 month full-time post that will deliver the Green Impact objectives but also enhance the capacity and impact of the sustainability team across Oxford as a whole. Output 1 Output 2 Output 3 Output 4 Output 5 Key Task 1 Key Task 2 Key Task 3 Key Task 4 Key Task 5 Key Task 6 Key Task 7 Key Task 8 Key Task 9 Key Task 10 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/ |