Strata Doncaster, England, United Kingdom
Graduate Sustainability Project Officer
Location: Support Office, Doncaster
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 8:15am - 4:45pm, Monday to Friday
The Opportunity
As our Graduate Sustainability Project Officer, you’ll kickstart your career at the forefront of sustainable innovation, playing a key role in delivering our sustainability strategy and helping shape the future of homebuilding. You’ll be part of our mission to become the market leader in customer experience, with sustainability and social purpose at the heart of everything we do.
You’ll work alongside passionate teams, contribute to real projects, and help embed sustainability into every corner of our company, focusing on enhancing ESG reporting, elevating our sustainability credentials and driving improved environmental performance and standards across our sites.
You will have the opportunity to build a strong foundation in sustainability by gaining hands‑on experience across a wide range of impactful areas. Through a blend of practical experience, mentorship and formal training, you’ll grow your skills while helping to deliver meaningful, lasting change in the communities we serve.
Who we are
We are a modern family business over 100 years’ experience designing and building quality, contemporary new homes. We’re not set in traditional ways; we innovate, challenge norms, and focus on exceeding customer expectations. With certifications such as a “Great Place to Work” and recognitions in wellbeing, development, and women’s workplace performance, we champion individuality and development.
Responsibilities of the role
* Assist the delivery of our sustainability strategy across all focus areas through project delivery, monitoring and reporting.
* Collate, monitor and report on key sustainability metrics, including environmental performance, carbon emissions, energy consumption, social value delivery and other key indicators in line with industry best practice and frameworks.
* Support supply chain mapping and engagement to understand and improve sustainability performance throughout the value chain.
* Create and deliver training and engagement to team members to improve the wider team's knowledge, understanding and performance of key sustainability issues and our sustainability strategy.
* Collect data and evidence to ensure compliance against sustainability benchmarks, frameworks and standards, including but not exclusive to the NextGeneration benchmark, Considerate Constructors Scheme and B‑Corp.
* Provide support to site teams to ensure compliance, communicate best practice and to roll out initiatives to improve the environmental and social impact of our work.
* Assist the delivery of engagement opportunities to community stakeholders through a variety of events, workshops, education experiences and other community outreach mechanisms.
* Shadow the Sustainability Manager to support the delivery of site environmental audits.
* Stay informed about key sustainability legislation and industry trends to support business performance.
Benefits
* Wellbeing mornings with a range of activities such as laughter yoga, climbing walls, fitness classes, mocktail making, pottery painting and more.
* Personalised health report annually from our partner Champion Health.
* Dedicated time for personal development with our personal development days and access to a whole host of content through My Development Portal.
* Access to the partner platform Benefex, offering discounted benefit options via salary sacrifice such as dental plans, pension salary sacrifice, PMI, gym memberships, cycle to work schemes and more.
* Company sick pay scheme providing financial support when you are ill.
* Westfield Health cover level 1 for you and dependent children.
* Holiday allowance of 26 days plus public holidays, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days each year through a holiday purchase scheme.
* Strata Group Fund pension scheme: minimum contribution from you of 3% and company contribution of 6%; for members aged 40 or over, 4% and 7% respectively.
* Death in service benefit of a minimum 4x basic salary.
* Flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
* Opportunities to participate in fundraising, volunteering and social events.
Seniority level
* Internship
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Management and Manufacturing
Industries
* Construction
Are you the brick to our mortar? Then Join Us!
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