Sustainability Manager -

Details

Reference number

327116

Salary

£34,500 – £39,500

London based The total package for this role at HEO is £39,500 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £5,000. Milton Keynes based The total package for this role at HEO is £36,250 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £1,750. East Kilbride based The total package for this role at HEO is £34,500 per annum (non-negotiable).

A
Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Other

Working pattern

Full-time

Location

East Kilbride, London, Milton Keynes

About the job

Job summary

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office pursues our national interests and projects the UKs role in the world.

We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK’s security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

As part of the FCDO Estate Operations team within the Estates, Security and Network Directorate (ESND), the Sustainability team work to meet the FCDOs Greening Government Commitments (GGCs), as well as the challenge of delivering a Net Zero strategy for the overseas estate, advocating for sustainability within the FCDO and raising awareness.

We provide sustainability advice, auditing, training services, delivery and monitor guidance and policy on all matters of sustainable operations. We cover issues that include climate change, the reduction of all greenhouse gas emissions to align with the His Majestys Government (HMG) drive to net zero emissions, carbon footprint benchmarking and reduction, environmental management, avoidance of single use plastics and changing technologies that will have a direct impact on the FCDO and HMG sustainability agenda.

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

As Sustainability Manager, you will be responsible for managing and reporting FCDOs environmental performance and monitoring information as well as developing and implementing projects that help achieve sustainability targets. The successful candidates will also promote sustainability to ensure the FCDO remains at the forefront of sustainability, ensuring knowledge and expertise is transferred across the entire organisation.

The successful candidates will:

Lead on the management of environmental performance information, via evaluation of performance data, identification of trends and investigation of anomalies.
Provide accurate and timely reporting of environmental performance information to internal and external bodies, presenting data in an engaging and informative way.
Liaise with Facilities Management contractors, suppliers and colleagues from across FCDO to develop and implement sustainability plans and projects that help achieve sustainability targets. You will provide advice and support as needed for other sustainability projects.
Establish effective networks across FCDO and other UK Government departments, ensuring we share, learn from and build on good practices and identify opportunities to raise environmental awareness in relation to wider corporate and FCDO objectives.
Develop internal communications plan as part of Destination Zero campaign and provide support to posts on environmental issues.
Contribute to development and implementation of environmental policies, reports and papers to FCDO boards and ministers; respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Parliamentary Question (PQ) requests in a timely and accurate manner.
Act as secretariat for the Sustainable Operations and Programme Board by developing agendas; drafting, commissioning and quality assuring papers; circulating papers to members; issuing accurate minutes; working with Communications Directorate to communicate decisions to the organisation; maintaining the action and decision tracker.
Monitor, review and audit compliance with FCDOs Environmental Management System (EMS).

Person specification

It is essential in your application that you provide evidence and proven examples in each of the following Minimum Criteria, the Behaviours and the Technical question as far as you are able to do so. These responses will be further developed and discussed with those candidates invited for interview.

Minimum Criteria

Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) or willing to work towards this.
Confident with numbers and experience of analysing and developing data in Excel.
Keen to develop or build on understanding of environmental management and environmental management systems (e.g. ISO14001).
Awareness of UK Governments sustainability agenda, Greening Government Commitment and DEFRAs 25 year environment strategy.
Experienced with communicating information to a range of stakeholders in engaging and informative ways.
Experienced and resilient to manage multiple projects concurrently, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

Memberships

Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) or willing to work towards this.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

What measures could FCDO implement to support meeting the Greening Government Commitments?
You will be asked a Motivation question and your understanding of the UK Governments sustainability agenda, including the Greening Government Commitments will also be assessed at interview.

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

What measures could FCDO implement to support meeting the Greening Government Commitments?

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,500, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes
£9,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

· A Civil Service Pension.
· 25 days Annual Leave per annum.
· 9 days Public and Privilege holidays per annum.
· Learning and Development tailored to your role.

See the attached candidate pack.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Please see the attached candidate pack for the selection process details.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via fcdorecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the Assistance required section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to FCDO from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : FCDO Recruitment Team
Email : fcdorecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : fcdorecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

The FCDOs recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should, in the first instance, contact csc.recruitment@fcdo.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the FCDO, you can contact the Office of the Civil Service Commissioners.