Environmental Management Lead

Are you passionate about sustainability and protecting the environment? Are you a people person skilled at engaging a wide range of stakeholders in detailed and impactful discussions, helping to uphold high environmental standards?

We have a fabulous opportunity to join the UWE Bristol sustainability team as Environmental Management Lead. You will be responsible for maintaining the environmental management system (EMS) documentation and records, leading the internal EMS audit programme across the entire university, and helping to develop and track policies and action plans.

The UWE Bristol sustainability team is responsible for embedding sustainability across the whole university, including developing and implementing new environmental sustainability policies and practices. We are a multi-disciplinary team and collaborate with colleagues across the university to embed sustainability into the our activities. We work across all areas of sustainability, and are responsible for monitoring environmental performance and compliance.

The role is varied and impactful, maintaining certification of the university to ISO14001:2015 Environmental Management System, including environmental auditing and coordination of external and third-party audits and environmental incident reporting.  You will analyse, benchmark and report sustainability performance from numerous sources both within and external to the university and ensure that we are compliant with environmental compliance obligations. You will deliver continual improvement in Environmental management through this work and will play a key part in delivering UWE’s ambitious 2030 Strategy.

You have experience across a range of environmental and sustainability issues within a large and complex organisation. You’re passionate and knowledgeable about environmental sustainability and its context within and between organisations. You’re highly motivated, detail oriented and organised, with the ability to manage your workload across competing priorities.

Excellent team working and communication skills will be essential for this role. You’ve got great analytical skills and creativity, as well as an ability to work with a wide range of people to effectively review conformity to standards and requirements. An important part of the role will be working with colleagues to deliver improvements to the EMS, you will need to effectively communicate with, and influence a broad range of stakeholders to achieve this.

Why UWE Bristol?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have excellent transport links; we are within walking distance of two train stations, our bus terminus connects us to the local bus and metrobus network and we also have a range of cycling and changing facilities. 

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 27 days
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• hybrid working
• career average pension schemes available for all staff groups
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus

Further information

To discuss the role, please email Paul Roberts: paul5.roberts@uwe.ac.uk.

This is a full-time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week

We may be able to sponsor qualifying candidates for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. Please read our Skilled Worker Guidance to assess if you will be eligible.

Please also refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable to prove your right to work in the UK. You will be asked to produce your right to work documents at your interview.

UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

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