Sustainability Coordinator

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

Background

The Sustainability team is responsible for the management and improvement of institutional sustainability performance aligned with four workstreams: Education, Research, Operations and Engagement. The team works across environmental and social sustainability, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework. As part of the Estates department, the team collaborates with colleagues from Professional Services and the Schools to embed sustainability in the University’s activities and implement low carbon initiatives to support our target of net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Responsibilities

The Sustainability Coordinator will be responsible for developing and supporting delivery against new objectives to be launched during 2024-25, in cooperation with colleagues in the Sustainability team and across the University. The focus will be on supplier engagement to reduce scope 3 emissions and internal stakeholder engagement to embed the new sustainability strategy.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be passionate and knowledgeable about sustainability and its context within a business environment. They will be competent in working across various sustainability workstreams at a large, complex organisation and possess the motivation to learn new areas of expertise. The individual will need to be highly ambitious and organised, with the ability to manage workload across competing priorities. Excellent teamwork and communication skills will be essential and the successful candidate will demonstrate both their analytical thinking and creativity.

Additional Information

Closing date: 21st November 2024 at 11:59pm.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

At City St George’s, subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way, involving a mixture of working on campus and at home each week.

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