ROLE SUMMARY
Job title: Environmental Sustainability Project Manager
Salary: £30,000 with potential to increase over time based on performance
Reporting to: ACE Programme Manager and Consultancy Lead
Start Date: ASAP
Location: New Wing, Somerset House, London. Please note our office is only accessible via a short staircase
Contract type: Fixed term until April 2019 (possibility to become permanent)
Normal hours: Full time. Office hours are 9.30 - 5.30pm, Monday - Friday
Other: Annual Leave is 25 days plus standard bank holidays Cultural entitlement of £250 (pro rata) to spend on arts/ cultural events In addition all employees are able to claim 1 hour a week for personal wellbeing
If you would like this application pack in a different format (e.g. large print or audio file), please email farah@juliesbicycle.com or call 0208 756 0400
ABOUT US
Julie’s Bicycle is a charity founded by the music industry in 2007 and now working across the arts, culture and broader creative community. Our vision is a creative community powering action on climate change. We work with more than 2,000 arts and cultural organisations across the UK and internationally to embed environmental sustainability into their operations, creative work and business practice. We provide the creative community with the skills to act, using their creativity to influence one another, audiences and the wider movement. We are a team of 10 full timers and 10 associates who, together, represent a unique mix of arts, culture, scientific and environmental expertise.
We believe that, as playgrounds for ideas, the arts are an essential part of the climate and environment challenge and have helped to galvanise a creative movement: research, training, events, toolkits, resources and ideas that raise ambition across the arts and provide the creative community with the skills to act.
As we enter our eleventh year we are now looking for an outstanding individual with creative flair and practical knowhow to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious nationwide programme to raise the profile and impact of cultural leadership on climate change and the environmental at a time when creative action is gaining speed and volume.. We are looking for an exceptional person with ambition, love of the arts and culture, creative flair and commitment to environmental sustainability to join a thriving team at the heart of the cultural response to environmental sustainability.
You will be a strategic thinker with an excellent grasp of the key issues impacting sustainability across the arts. An excellent communicator and confident project manager you will be committed to helping arts organisations understand and reduce their environmental impact.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Julie’s Bicycle is looking for an Environmental Sustainability Project Manager for two of our core activity programmes:
* Our consultancy portfolio, made of multiyear, tailored programmes, which has so far supported over a hundred organisations to successfully embed environmental sustainability into their values and practice.
* Our partnership with Arts Council England (ACE), developing and delivering an environmental programme involving ~850 National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs).
The programme’s aims are:
o Help Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) to meet their funding requirements around impact measurement and action-planning.
o Support and champion the sector’s sustainable development. o Deepen understanding of the sector’s environmental performance.
o Support the development of Arts Council England’s approach to environmental sustainability.
The role will require a strong foundational knowledge relating to the environment and climate: basics of the causes and consequences, key issues, solutions and technologies; and how to embed sustainable practice in operations, communications and governance for organisations We would particularly welcome expertise on waste, the circular economy and/or the Sustainable Development Goals in relation to climate change. The successful candidate will be excited about the role of the cultural sector in demonstrating and inspiring action.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
As an Environmental Sustainability Project Manager, you will work closely with high profile, and highly diverse, organisations in the arts and culture sector (nationally and internationally) to help them understand, manage and improve their sustainability performance. You will:
* Manage projects which involve: identifying potential clients, writing competitive and creative proposals for programmes that respond to the specific needs of each organisation and managing resources and budgets to deadline.
* Carry out the necessary research to respond to specific organisational/sector challenges.
* Analyse environmental data.
* Design surveys and analyse attitudinal data.
* Recommend strategies for stakeholder engagement, including recommendations for external communications and audience engagement.
* Produce reports, strategy, policies, action plans, tools and resources.
* Design and facilitate participative focused groups, workshops, etc.
* Produce a full project evaluation.
* Present findings to the Julie’s Bicycle’s team, board and to organisations.
* Provide advice around how clients can meet environmental regulations.
* Recommend new technologies, sustainable materials and cost-effective routes to sustainable practice e.g. switching to alternative energy sources to lower energy costs, smarter water usage, reducing waste, reusing materials, etc.
* Keep up to date with current research and legislation via specialist publications, following relevant social media groups or by attending conferences.
* Support the team delivering Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Green certification scheme.
* Understand and articulate the relationship between the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals and how these might be translated across the cultural sector.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential Four to six years’ experience working in environmental sustainability consultancy with demonstrable experience in:
* Writing proposals, relationship management with high profile organisations, project management from beginning to end, including project evaluation.
* Working in and/or demonstrable knowledge of new, sustainable materials, circular economy business, LCAs, innovation, new technologies, green procurement, energy efficiencies, renewable energy, waste and recycling.
* Carbon footprinting calculation, conversion factors and analysis.
* Undertaking consultation and information gathering with organisations from which to develop. strategy, policy and action plans.
* Stakeholders’ engagement strategies.
* Designing and facilitating workshops, roundtables, focused group discussions, etc.
* Customer service and support, troubleshooting and problem solving.
* A degree in environmental science/studies/management/sustainability and/or other relevant academic discipline area, or evidence of the equivalent knowledge/expertise. Desirable
* Large audiences’ engagement and communications strategies.)Research experience.
* Writing reports, guides and communication materials for non-academic audience.
* Knowledge of environmental certification schemes.
* Knowledge of and/or strong interest in how environmental sustainability issues impact the arts, culture and creative sector.
* IEMA membership or similar.
PERSON SPECIFICATION AND SKILLS
* Business skills and commercial awareness
* Strategic thinking
* Excellent written skills
* Excellent presentation skills
* Scientific and numerical skills
* Project management skills
* Ability to work well in a small team.
* Ability to think creatively
* Excellent attention to detail
* Ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment
* Ability to work to deadlines
* Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative
* Keen and active interest in the environment and in the arts and culture and creative sector
* Computer literacy
* Good judgement
* Commitment to Julie’s Bicycle’s core values
HOW TO APPLY
Please send us
* a cover letter telling us what attracts you to this position and, using the Person Specification, demonstrating how your skills and experience qualify you for the post. This should not exceed 2 pages
* a CV
* a monitoring form, to help us understanding whether we are succeeding in encouraging diversity (voluntary)
If you have any difficulty accessing the documents, please email info@juliesbicycle.com If you have any questions, please email info@juliesbicycle.com before midday on Friday 2nd March 2018 with the subject heading Environmental Sustainability Project Manager. Please send your application by email with the forms attached to info@juliesbicycle.com by 9am, Monday 5th March 2018.
Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing Monday 12th March.
We are committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer; we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, culture, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Thank you for your interest in working at Julie’s Bicycle.
