ISEAL is offering an exciting opportunity for someone with a keen interest in sustainability standards or corporate sustainability programmes. The role is well-suited to an experienced project coordinator, who enjoys keeping on top of many different project activities, while gaining a great insight into developments and trends in sustainability innovation.
ISEAL supports sustainability standards and similar market-based sustainability systems to improve their impacts on people and planet. ISEAL’s Credibility Principles and Codes of Good Practice are used globally to guide the development of credible sustainability systems and to evaluate the credibility of sustainability claims.
The Senior Coordinator will support two aspects of an Innovations Programme designed to promote cutting edge developments in sustainability systems: the ISEAL Innovations Fund and sustainable landscapes workstream.
The role will be a core member of these two project teams. The position will oversee day-to-day coordination for the grants portfolio of the Innovations Fund, which enables ISEAL members to test innovations to drive efficiency and effectiveness or deepen impacts on specific sustainability challenges. This position will play a key role in extracting and sharing learning from grantees with the ISEAL community, maintaining close communications with grant recipients and internal colleagues.
The Senior Coordinator will also support project management and communications on ISEAL´s sustainable landscapes workstream, as well as providing research and analysis, and producing documentation of emerging good practice for landscape and jurisdictional sustainability initiatives. The role will also help facilitate peer-to-peer learning between organisations working on this topic.
To be considered for the role, you have a good level of experience in supporting the management of multiple projects with an ability to keep on top of concurrent project activities and competing deadlines. You are interested in applying your strong analytical skills to gain a deep understanding of how sustainability systems work and can improve, to extract key insights from projects and produce high quality written work. A strong communicator, you can demonstrate good relationship management and stakeholder engagement experience. You relish the opportunity to learn more about cutting edge approaches to sustainability, such as landscape approaches.
ISEAL proudly offers a supportive organisational culture and creates opportunities for ISEAL staff to develop professionally and personally in a busy international NGO environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide oversight and project management support for day-to-day operations of Innovations Fund and ensure compliance with administrative processes
- Liaise with grant recipients and ISEAL colleagues to capture and share learning from projects
- Support grant recipients in communicating their progress and learning
- Monitor and analyse grant project data and progress, providing input for internal and external reports
- Provide project coordination for landscapes workstream, including responding to enquiries and tracking project activities
- Monitor and analyse key learning points from pilot projects
- Support analysis and research related to landscape initiatives and the indicators and data used to track sustainability progress
- Produce briefing papers, blogs, case studies and slide decks, and manage content on ISEAL’s online learning platform, to communicate project findings, outcomes, and achievements
- Support peer to peer interaction between participants in projects to share & discuss learning
- Support project Monitoring & Evaluation activities and contribute to donor reporting
Experience, Knowledge and Attributes
- Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a relevant subject (e.g. sustainability, international development/ relations/policy, geography, etc.) or equivalent work experience
- Experience working in sustainability focused NGO/membership organisation or CSR department
- Good existing understanding of and, ideally, work experience with sustainability standards, or corporate sustainability agendas and programmes
- Proven organisational skills, experience with administration, meeting/event logistics, ability to coordinate and track multiple project activities
- Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesise complex information in clear verbal and written form
- Confidence in communications with peers and external partners
- Track record of working independently, including in a remote work environment, and communicating effectively with team members
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Confidence in using IT systems, familiarity with virtual meeting tools (e.g. MS Teams, Zoom, GoToMeeting, etc), use of contact management databases (e.g. Salesforce) and proficiency in MS Office
- Desire to contribute to a more sustainable world
Additionally desirable
- Some experience supervising or overseeing the work of others, such as assistants or interns
- Experience working in an ISEAL member organisation or landscape initiative
- Facilitation of discussions and peer learning, ideally in a virtual setting
Other relevant information
Term: Initial 12-months fixed term contract
Salary: £31,500 – 36,500 p.a. depending on experience
Working Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week.
Location: This position will be based in ISEAL’s London head office; due to uncertainty with Covid-19, an ability and willingness to work from home is required. Applicants need to provide evidence that they are entitled to work in the UK.
International Travel: The post holder may be required to undertake occasional international travel
Annual Leave: 25 days p.a. for full-time position (including office closure between Christmas /New Year)
Ideal Start Date asap
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a current CV and a statement explaining how they meet the selection criteria for the position to recruitment@isealalliance.org, quoting the job title “Senior Project Coordinator, Sustainability Innovation”. Specific enquiries about this role and the application process can be sent to the same email.
Deadline for applications will be 13 April 2021. Please note that we are looking to interview suitable candidates from 6 April, so early submission is strongly recommended.
We regret that we will only be able to contact short-listed candidates.
