Key responsibilities
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To help embed sustainability in processes and departments across the LMB. These activities include:
• Leading and administering the LMB’s Green Committee and Lab Sustainability team.
• Working and engaging with researchers to lessen the environmental impact from the laboratories, animal husbandry, and other facilities, using sustainability standards as a guide where relevant.
• Training new staff and students in sustainable practices.
• Developing and introducing best practices into the LMB to reduce the environmental impact of our staff and research.
• Disseminating and promoting these best practices, through generation of promotional material, organising events/competitions, writing newsletters and engaging on social media.
• Monitoring engagement with sustainable initiatives and adjusting where appropriate.
• Integrating sustainability into the leaving process for departing staff and working with lab leavers to ensure this process is followed.
• Working with suppliers, our Stores Manager and the researchers to reduce the environmental impact of the products we purchase.
• Making improvements to waste segregation and implementing initiatives to reduce waste.
• Making improvements to biodiversity on site by managing small projects and working with Estates and Facilities staff who manage the external site.
• Communicating achievements in environmental sustainability across the site and to other stakeholders.
• Monitoring our progress towards sustainability goals and reporting to senior Managers, and the MRC Sustainability Team where relevant.
• Helping to identify and apply for grants for new sustainability initiatives.
• Working with environmental leads from across the MRC facilities, as well as UKRI and external stakeholders, to establish best practice, share ideas and coordinate on projects.
Working relationships:
You will establish and nurture relationships with colleagues from across the LMB, the MRC as a whole, and UKRI, at all levels of responsibility. This includes:
• Operational teams, to reduce energy and water usage, reduce waste, improve waste segregation and recycling, and improve the biodiversity and species abundance of the site.
• Researchers, research groups, and animal technicians, to lessen the impact of the research that is undertaken on the site.
• Sustainability Officers at other MRC Institutes, the MRC Sustainability team and the wider UKRI environmental sustainability community, to report and communicate successes and challenges.
• Suppliers and contractors, to develop lower-impact supply chain options and shape services to promote greater sustainability.
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Education / qualifications / training required:
Essential:
• Degree level qualification in a life science-related subject or environmental sustainability and/or comparable experience.
Desirable:
• Work experience in an environmental sustainability-related field.
Knowledge and experience:
Essential:
• Knowledge of current landscape, key themes and principles relating to environmental sustainability in the UK, as well as specifically in biological research laboratories.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting or implementing sustainability in an organisation.
Desirable:
• Previous experience in a laboratory environment.
• Experience of managing or coordinating projects related to sustainable improvements.
• Experience of reporting data to meet sustainability accreditations and/or standards.
Personal skills / behaviours / qualities:
Essential:
• Passion for environmental sustainability.
• Desire to forge a career in sustainability.
• Proactive approach to implementing sustainability ideas.
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build enduring and effective working relationships with staff at all levels.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Detail conscious and very well organised.
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Excellent level of IT literacy and good working knowledge of Microsoft packages.
• Proactive and flexible approach to work, with a willingness to travel on occasion.
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