Senior Sustainability Engagement Officer

About Us:

King's Climate & Sustainability (KCS) is a three-year transformation programme to drive forward the pace of research, education and action at King's to accelerate the transition to environmental sustainability.

You'll join a friendly and highly collaborative team of 12 colleagues, led by Professor Frans Berkhout (Assistant Principal, King's Climate & Sustainability) and Rosie Smith (Programme Director, King's Climate & Sustainability), working to embed climate and sustainability into everything we do at King's. To deliver this university-wide priority, we collaborate with colleagues across our faculties and directorates, particularly within the Directorate of Estates & Facilities, who enable operational change, and our Staff Sustainability Champions.

About the Role:

The Senior Sustainability Engagement Officer is responsible for supporting the engagement aspects of this strategic priority for King's. Key responsibilities include contributing to the development of an engagement plan and associated activities, supporting projects related to the King's Climate & Sustainability Action Plan and new sustainability strategy, leading the Sustainability Champions Network and engaging with students, staff and external partners to champion sustainability.

This post requires a motivated and highly collaborative individual who is passionate about making a difference to climate and sustainability. The successful candidate will have knowledge of climate and sustainability issues, and experience of engagement activities, managing projects, contributing to the development of plans and supporting events. This role allows the post-holder to develop their skills and gain experience as a sustainability professional, while contributing to a vibrant and inclusive sustainability culture at King's.

The role holder is expected to be on campus for 3-5 days a week to attend events and to build relationships with colleagues based across our London campuses.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Knowledge of sustainability and climate issues.
2. Experience of planning and delivering a range of engagement activities, including events and training.
3. Experience of supporting the implementation of projects and contributing to the development and measurement of plans and strategies.
4. Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with evidence of building good working relationships and the ability to present to a wide range of audiences in an enthusiastic and engaging way.
5. Excellent time management and organisational skills, with a proactive approach and the ability to work independently, flexibly and as part of a team.
6. Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce high-quality materials.
7. Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
8. Strong IT literacy (i.e. Microsoft Office), including ability to manipulate spreadsheets or databases, to support presentation and report writing and data management.

Desirable criteria

1. A first degree or equivalent in any subject.
2. Experience of working within Higher Education.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our 'How we Recruit' pages.

Interviews are due to be held on Wednesday 2 July.