Sustainability Programme Officer (Student Citizenship)

£33,555 – £42,155 p.a. depending on experience

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you looking for a challenging role that enables you to work across a diverse range of partners and people? Do you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strengths in project delivery? Do you want to be part of a vibrant team working across the University and in our local community to deliver positive social impact?

The University of Leeds is one of the top 135 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.

Sustainability sits at the heart of the University’s new strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Sustainability Service to support the University in delivering on its sustainability commitments. Through our strategic approach to sustainability, we draw upon collaboration internally and externally, to facilitate behaviour and process change.

This role will support this ambitious vision, and in particular our commitments to community and civic collaboration whilst supporting our students to play an active and positive role in our city. By taking a leading role in the delivery and advancement of our Student Citizenship programme you’ll play a key part in driving forward these strategic commitments and generating a positive impact for our local community.

Based on campus in Leeds with the opportunity for hybrid working you’ll promote and facilitate partnership and collaboration, ensuring effective development and management of projects and initiatives that support the University, its partners and our communities. You’ll ensure our students are supported as local residents to minimise their local impacts and that the University maintains its position as a key community partner. There will also be opportunities to influence and engage across a range of strategic sustainability programmes, with direct impact across the University as well as in the city and its local communities.

We’ll need you to have a background in delivering complex multi-partnership community projects and programmes. Demonstrating excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship building skills to influence and collaborate with passion and energy across a diverse community at the University and beyond.

You’ll be an experienced sustainability and community development professional, with the ability to relate sustainability to community and civic collaboration, engage and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide an opportunity for all to make a contribution in the development and enhancement of Student Citizenship.

To include an overview of the role, that will engage the candidate to find out more by viewing the job description.

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s over 40 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 21.6% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

Interviews are planned to be held on 7th February.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Amanda Jackson – Sustainability Manager – Social Impact

Email: [email protected]