Sustainability and Energy Manager Candidate Information Pack
Contents
• Message from the President and Principal
• About Queen Mary, University of London
• The role of Sustainability and Energy Manager
• Job Description and Person Specification
• Further Information and How to Apply
QMUL is a unique, world- class global University with a long, proud and distinctive history. As one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions, we have more than 32,000 students, 4,500 staff and an annual turnover of £535m.
Message from the President and Principal
Thank you for your interest in this role and in Queen Mary University of London. Working at Queen Mary means being part of a unique, world-class global University with a long, proud and distinctive history.
University of London. Working at Queen Mary means being part of a unique, world-class global University with a long, proud and distinctive history.
Our founding institutions, the London Hospital Medical College, St Bartholomew’s Medical College, Westfield College and Queen Mary College, were founded to provide hope and opportunity for the less privileged and otherwise under-represented. Today, we remain true to the vision of our founders by continuing to improve lives locally, nationally and internationally through the seamless combination of our world-leading strengths in education and research. The Queen Mary community – our staff, students and alumni – is the heart and soul of our University. We are proud to provide an inclusive and nurturing environment so that staff and students from all backgrounds can develop, flourish and achieve their full potential.
I look forward to welcoming you to our unique University and working with you to realise our ambitions.
Professor Colin Bailey, President and Principal
Welcome to Queen Mary University of London
High-quality learning experience
Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions. With around 32,000 students on Degree Courses, 4,500 staff and an annual turnover of £535m, we are one of the biggest University of London colleges.
Queen Mary offers students a stimulating, supportive and high-quality learning experience, with teaching inspired by our world-leading research.
We teach and research across a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine and dentistry, and science and engineering.
The University has invested in new facilities over the past five years to offer its students an exceptional learning environment. Recent developments include the £39m Graduate Centre, providing 7,700 square metres of learning and teaching space, and the new Dental Hospital, home to the Institute of Dentistry, the UK’s first new dental school in forty years. Future developments include the planned new school of Business and Management (7,000 square metres).
Based in a creative and culturally diverse area of east London, we are the only London University able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning student village at our Mile End home. Queen Mary is a leading research-intensive university with a difference – one that opens the doors of opportunity to anyone with the potential to succeed. It is a unique place of world-leading research and unparalleled diversity and inclusivity, that lives and breathes its history and heritage and is embedded in the communities it serves.
Estates & Facilities
The Estates and Facilities Directorate is core to the University’s strategic ambition to provide a world-class managed estate with excellent facilities for staff and students.
Key facts
The mission of Estates & Facilities is to ensure that the campus buildings, environment, and facilities reach the highest standard of design, sustainability, and presentation. This is to reflect the ambition of Queen Mary, enhance the student experience and promote QMUL as a world class academic institution. As part of the QMUL’s ambitious Strategy 2030, extensive focus will be placed on enhancing, growing and better utilising the QMUL estate portfolio to create a physical environment that supports our position as an inclusive, world-class university.
• Our history dates back to 1785, with the founding of The London Hospital Medical College, England’s first official medical school. • We are a Russell Group university, operating across five campuses in London and at sites across Europe and Asia. • We are ranked 14th in the UK and 117th in the world by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. • Our annual income is £535.3m, of which £113.3m is research income.
Annual Report on Widening Participation and Outreach (WP&O) | 2013–14
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Our strategy 2030
We are ambitious , fostering innovation and creativity, disrupting conventional thought, and responding with imagination to new opportunities. We are collegial , promoting a strong community through openness, listening, understanding, co-operation and co-creation.
In 2019, Queen Mary University of London launched a bold new Strategy with the vision to open the doors of opportunity. By 2030, we will be the most inclusive university of its kind, anywhere. We are doing this by building on our existing cultural diversity to create a truly inclusive environment, where students and staff flourish, reach their full potential and are proud to be part of the University. Continuing our long tradition of commitment to public good, we will generate new knowledge, challenge existing knowledge, and engage locally, nationally and internationally to create a better world.
We are ethical , acting with the highest standards, and with integrity, in all that we do.
We have five core values that will help us to reach this goal:
To enable our staff to flourish and to reach their full potential throughout their employment at Queen Mary, we offer a range of benefits:
We are inclusive , supporting talented students and staff regardless of their background, and engaging with our local and global communities.
We are proud of the difference we can all make when we work collectively.
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Duties and Responsibilities
Job Description
Job Title:
Sustainability and Energy Manager
Main duties and responsibilities
School/Dept/Institute Centre/Faculty:
Professional Services / Estates and Facilities / Operations
• Carry out scheduled energy audits in line with Queen Mary’s commitment to comply with all relevant regulations and continue to improve its environmental performance. • Manage all environmental and energy regulatory obligations, maintain a complete and accurate legal registers, this will include coordinating, quality checking and maintaining evidence for the environmental elements of all statutory such as the HESA (Higher Education Statics Agency) submissions and DECs (Display Energy Certificates). • Manage energy efficiency awareness campaigns across all Queen Mary’s campuses as well as actively engage with Queen Mary’s Environmental Sustainability Champions. • Use environmental sustainability data including, but not limited to: water, electricity, gas, waste, carbon to analyse the performance of buildings and identify opportunities for improvement. • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging environmental and energy regulations and standards. Maintain Queen Mary’s legal / compliance register. • Analyse complex datasets and validate energy and utility invoices to ensure that these are accurate. • Active involvement in the delivery of Queen Mary’s ESAP and its environmental sustainability objectives. • Deputise for the Head of Environment & Sustainability and undertake any other duties, which are commendurate with the role. The above list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and the jobholder may be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the level of the role, as reasonably requested by their line manager. This job description accurately reflects the duties and responsibilities of the role at the time the job description was written. These duties and responsibilities may change over time without significantly impacting on the character of the role, the overall level of responsibility, or its grade. Depending on strategic or operational needs, the jobholder may in the future be required to work for another existing or new organisational unit and/or at a different site within Queen Mary. This may be on a temporary or indefinite basis and may involve a change in line management and / or regularly working at more than one site.
Reports to:
Head of Sustainability
Hours per week:
Full-time (35 hrs)
Appointment period: Current Location: Work activity type:
Indefinite Mile End
Admin/Operational/Technical and Support
The QMUL Sustainability team forms part of the Estates and Facilities Directorate, which in turn is part of QMUL Professional Services covering all non-academic functions of the organisation.
The current priorities of the Sustainability team are to:
• Minimise the institution’s adverse environmental impacts, most notably energy consumption and carbon emissions, and where possible, enhance the local environment whilst still meeting the university’s growth strategy. • Work with local communities to develop new ways Queen Mary can act as a socially aware and sustainable neighbour. • Promoting sustainability to our staff and students, working with them to encourage more socially aware and sustainable behaviour. • Contribute positively to the university’s financial resilience through a more energy efficient, lower carbon and more environmentally sustainable campus. • Coordinate the delivery Queen Mary’s commitment to attain and maintain ISO14001:2015 Environmental Management System (EMS) certification. • Coordinate the delivery of Queen Mary’s Environmental Sustainability Action Plan (ESAP) and its environmental sustainability objectives.
Job purpose
The Sustainability and Energy Manager will be responsible for operational monitoring of Queen Mary’s energy performance. The post holder will be responsible for managing energy regulatory obligations, maintain a complete and accurate legal registers, this will include coordinating, quality checking and maintaining evidence for the environmental elements of all statutory reporting requirements such as the HESA (Higher Education Statics Agency) submisisons. The Sustainability and Energy Manager will also be responsible for promoting Queen Mary’s energy and carbon efficiency priorities and acting as the energy and carbon reduction champion, by coordinating energy effciency and carbon reduction initiatives across Queen Mary.
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Person Specification
This table lists the essential and desirable requirements needed in order to perform the job effectively. Candidates will be shortlisted based on the extent to which they meet these requirements.
Requirements
Essential / Desirable
Skills/ Abilities
Highly numerate with experience of analysing complex environmental sustainability data and producing analytical reports for senior management and other audiences with varying levels of understanding. Excellent oral and written communication skills (including the preparation and presentation of reasoned business cases). An ability to persuade and influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels. Able to prioritise, plan and manage a variety of commitments, balancing conflicting workloads to maintain progress and meet stakeholder expectations and multiple deadlines. Good time management and organisational skills with ability to work on own initiatives and with minimal supervision.
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Qualifications Degree level in a sustainable development and/or energy discipline or equivalent relevant experience. E Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA). E Post graduate qualification in a relevant subject area (e.g. environmental or energy management) D Full Member of a relevant professional body such as IEMA D
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Experience/ Knowledge
Extensive knowledge and practical experience of implementing, managing and auditing energy management systems such as ISO 50001. Experience in carbon management and energy management in the Higher Education sector or a similar broad public sector/service environment. Experience of: • Undertaking research, analysing, manipulating and interpreting data • Collecting / collating information by using scientific equipment or techniques and reviewing/auditing and reporting performance Highly numerate with experience of analysing complex energy and environmental and producing analytical reports for senior management and other audiences with varying levels of understanding. Knowledge and experience of the application of the decarbonisation and energy effciency principles.
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Other
*The ability to meet UK ‘right to work’ requirements.
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Essential/Desirable: E = Essential: Requirements without which the job could not be done. D = Desirable: Requirements that would enable the candidate to perform the job well.
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* The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all potential employees can provide documentary evidence of their legal right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be ask to bring their passport or another acceptable form of evidence to verify their right to work. For those who do not have a right to work in the UK, the University is a UKVI licensed sponsor and is able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to successful candidates who are offered highly skilled roles and meet the eligibility criteria. The CoS enables candidates to apply for a Tier 2 (general visa). For further information on this, please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
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Duties and Responsibilities
EDI Initiatives
Equal Opportunities
Queen Mary is committed to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and champions a number of EDI initiatives across the University. Queen Mary holds a Silver Institutional Athena SWAN award for advancing gender equality, and is also a Stonewall Diversity Champion and commits to advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion by submitting to the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index. We also offer a number of development programmes including Springboard, Aurora and B-MEntor. We are committed to championing EDI relating to all protected characteristics and other underrepresented and marginalised groups under the Equality Act 2010. We offer ‘Introducing Inclusion’ training for staff to give them an understanding of EDI related issues and provide them with the toolsneeded to champion inclusivity and embed best inclusive practice in all the work they do. EDI is built into everything we do at Queen Mary, and is championed through a well-established governance structure. If you are interested in learning more about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Queen Mary and how to get involved then please contact hr-equality@qmul.ac.uk.
Queen Mary University of London is a Russell Group University with a difference. Our vision is to be recognised across the world as the most inclusive research-intensive University. We will strive to achieve that goal. To all the communities at Queen Mary, inclusivity is key to who we are and to achieving all our ambitions. We are a multi-faculty institution teaching undergraduates and postgraduates across all the major disciplines. We offer more than 280 undergraduate courses. We have world- leading research across disciplines and were ranked 5th in the UK in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the quality of our research outputs, and continually challenge ourselves to ensure we have an environment where everyone feels included and can flourish. We are very proud of our teaching and learning and were awarded a ‘silver’ in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (2016-17). We are also deeply embedded in the local community and were the first UK University to be awarded an Engage Watermark Gold award for public engagement by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement. Unlike many other Russell Group universities, we attract a very diverse student population. Of our 25,000+ students, over 30 per cent are from non-EU overseas countries, and 9 per cent are from the EU. Our international students are drawn from over 160 countries. 90 per cent of our home students are from state schools, 59 per cent are Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), 42 per cent are the first in their families to go into higher education and over 30 per cent are from households where the household income, as assessed by Student Finance England, is less than £15,000.
We attract a lot of local students, owing to our strong relationships with schools in the surrounding boroughs, coupled with a strong reputation for inclusivity. 37 per cent of our students commute to our campuses daily. Our staff body is also diverse and is drawn from over 162 countries. Inclusivity is one of our fundamental core values at Queen Mary: it is intrinsic to who we are. Our diversity of cultures and backgrounds is key to the vibrancy of our community and to the knowledge and ideas we are able to generate and pass on; without that diversity, we would not be who we are. We are extremely proud that we attract such a diverse staff and student body, and are fully committed to providing an environment where everyone is supported to flourish and fulfil their potential, irrespective of their background. To be truly inclusive requires sustained, proactive, hard work, and we know there are areas where we have work to do. Our core objectives are focused on reducing the BAME attainment gap and increasing the proportion of female and BAME staff at the higher grades, both for academics and for Professional Services. We are looking to see how we can ‘hard-wire’ inclusivity throughout all our policies and practices: we do not see this work as belonging to one team or unit, but rather as being embedded in all that we do. Being inclusive makes us better at everything we do, it improves our daily lives and the delivery and impact of our work.
Duties and Responsibilities
Staff benefits
A wide range of benefits are available, this includes 30 days annual leave (plus University closure days and public holidays), a defined benefit pension scheme and also an interest-free season ticket loan. For further details of the benefits of working at QMUL please visit: http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/workqm/index.html • Annual leave – the full-time annual leave annual entitlement is 30 working days (not including bank holidays) • Season ticket loan scheme • USS Pension scheme • Reward and recognition schemes • Cycle to work scheme • Qmotion sport fitness centre • Employee Assistance Programme • Family friendly policies • Flexible working practices • On-site day nursery
Flexible working:
Queen Mary is proud of the diversity of its staff and students. We encourage inclusive practices in everything that we do, to ensure that everyone who works here feels valued and enabled to have a positive working experience. We are therefore open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly, balanced against business need. Our Flexible Working Policy includes examples of some of the flexible working arrangements that could be considered. If you feel that this is something that may be of benefit to you, please do ask.
Family Friendly Policies:
Queen Mary recognises the commitments that staff have to their family and the importance of work-life balance. To support this Queen Mary offers a range of family friendly policies with enhanced rates of pay available for family-related leave, following a qualifying period of service.
How to Apply Applications should consist of a CV and covering statement outlining key matching experience and rationale for applying for the post. Applications should be sent to michael.hewlett@mrgpeople.co.uk
For a confidential and informal discussion, please contact the University’s appointed recruitment Partner Michael Hewlett at The Management Recruitment Group.
Michael Hewlett 07972 579 938 michael.hewlett@mrgpeople.co.uk
51 Eastcheap, Billingsgate, London EC3M 1JP
www.mrgpeople.co.uk
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