Head of Environmental Sustainability Candidate Information Pack
Contents
• Message from the President and Principal
• About Queen Mary, University of London
• The role of Head of Environmental Sustainability
• 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:
Head of Environmental Sustainability
School/Dept/Institute Centre/Faculty:
Main duties and responsibilities
Estates and Facilities Directorate
Reports to:
Director of Estates, Facilities & Capital Development
• Develop, implement and maintain energy and environmental strategies for QMUL in order to reduce QMUL’s environmental impact and energy consumption. To professionally advise the Director of Estates and Facilities and Development and other senior staff of existing and emerging environmental legislation and the effect of it on QMUL activity and the opportunities it provides. • Develop an understanding of the environmental impact of QMUL’s goals and priorities in sustainability and develop an annual functional plan. • Develop QMUL policy, procedures and guidelines relating to the effective and efficient use of energy and utility management by actively chairing energy or environmental steering groups set up by QMUL or with other universities. • Research up and coming legislation and prepare relevant documentation for QMUL delivery of environmental changes that will impact campuses or property portfolio. • Ensure we are well prepared to bid for grant funding to help delivr our environmental objectives so that we can submit strong bids to deadline. • Manage the environmental documentation, including policy and procedures. The post holder is responsible for the management of environmental reports and benchmark performance, organising training sessions or seminars to develop staff and student skills and awareness. Produce monthly and annual reports detailing sustainability and other environmental targets as required. • Analyse performance of overall environmental strategy for QMUL buildings or equipment, identify abnormal performance or malfunction and institute remedial investigations individually or with the assistance of other departments. Identify and recommend targets for performance measurement. • Responsible for development of a QMUL, estate wide Sustainability, Biodiversity and De-Carbon design specification for Consultants for feasibility studies or specific design requirements. • Be responsible for the operation of an effective computer based monitoring and targeting system for all QMUL environmental and sustainability targets. • Produce monthly, quarterly and annual reports to indicate performance in relation to environmental and sutainable and targets for improvement. • To advise and assist in the renegotiating of energy contracts to achieve best value and selecting best tariff structures in line with the QMUL environmental and sustainability policy. Actively promote the purchase of energy from renewable sources where possible. • Develop, update, maintain and monitor the QMUL’s Carbon Management Plan and the De-Carbon Management Plan.
Hours per week:
Full-time Indefinite
Appointment period: Current Location: Work activity type:
Based at Deaprtment W, Whitechapel but working across all QMUL sites.
Professional Services: Senior Management
The QMUL Environmental Sustainability team forms part of the Estates and Facilities Directorate which in turn is part of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Professional Services covering all non-academic functions of the organisation. The key aims of the Environmental Sustainability team are as follows: To manage QMUL’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy to deliver the required environmental impact, notably reductions in energy usage, carbon emissions, increase biodivefrsity across the estate, and where possible, enhance the local environment whilst still meeting QMUL’s key growth objectives set out in Strategy 2030. Work with local communities and businesses to develop new ways that QMUL and stakeholders can act as a socially aware and sustainable neighbours.
Promote sustainability and biodiversity training and support to QMUL staff, students and stakeholders, working with them to encourage more socially aware and sustainable behaviour
Contribute positively to the development and delivery of Queen Mary’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy and drive resilience through communication and education to staff, stakeholders and students by the provision of more energy efficient, lower carbon services and increased biodiversity across the estate to grow more sustainable campuses.
Job purpose
The Head of Environmental Sustainability is a leadership position in Estates and Facilities with responsibility for leading the development and delivery of QMUL’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy. A key part of the role will be developing key sustainability services and provision whilst ensuring that the above strategy is delivered within the agreed budget envelope, and the team is managed appropriately to deliver these services. The post holder will work closely with the senior leadership team of the university, professional servies and academic staff, students and other stakeholders to ensure that sustainability initiatives are understood, accurately reflected in activities, delivered and that sustainability interests are represented at all levels. The post holder is required to support the QMUL Environmental Sustainability Strategy programmes and initiatives to minimise our social, environmental and economic impacts. Where relevant, the role can influence energy consumption, waste diversion, water use etc., and the post holder will work to ensure that sustainability impacts are addressed, for example in the procurement of goods and services, projects and maintenance programmes across all professional services, residences, education, research and associated activites of the university.
Duties and Responsibilities
Job Description
• Develop a QMUL wide environmental policy with supporting guidelines for implementation across the campuses by participating in environmental steering groups or committees, undertaking environmental audits, producing environmental reports and providing environmental training. • Work with academic departments and students to achieve best environmental practice to ensure statutory & legal compliance. Lead on developing cross department environmental and sustainability initiatives. Move QMUL towards “Green” practices in its day-to-day operations. • Be the lead person for QMUL in respect of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), advising on duties and commitments and ensuring that QMUL is in the most advantageous position in respect of trading commitments. • Develop sustainable procurement solutions within QMUL, working with procurement, and especially with Estates and Facilities, develop a sustainable approach in its procurement of, construction works and management of all new buildings and refurbishments works. • Promote environmental awareness by producing articles, exhibitions, and other publicising tools across QMUL and develop programmes that minimise re-use or recycle waste. • Provide professional advice to QMUL and the Waste Manager for the Directorate in the delivery of their objectives of reducing the environmental impact of QMUL in the removal of all waste production in an environmental manner. • To liaise with research councils and other external agencies. • Provide secretariat support to the QMUL Sustainability Committee. 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 sets out the duties of the post at the time it was drawn up. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or level of the responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot in themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.
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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.
* 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.
Requirements
Essential / Desirable
Qualifications Degree in corporate social responsibility, environmental management/environmental science or equivalent experience
E
Visa Sponsorship
Member of appropriate professional body
E
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 skilled roles and meet the eligibility criteria. The CoS enables candidates to apply for a Skilled Worker visa. Further information on the Skilled Worker visa can be found via: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Experience/ Knowledge
Substantial experience in a sustainability related activity with a successful track record of service delivery Experience of successfully devising and implementing a sustainability programme. (e.g. work on strategy, policy development, programme development, goal setting, reporting, internal management systems etc.) Working knowledge and management of a Environmental Management System Previous experience of working in the Higher Education sector Experience of formulating and submitting applications for grant funding etc Knowledge of Health & Safety policies and procedures Visionary thought and action leader with significant experience in and previous management responsibility for issues and activities related to sustainability and reporting in a corporate setting Experience of managing a high performing team and evidence of mentoring and team working, and working successfully with and through others not directly in the team. Ability to anticipate trends and issues in business and society that affect QM’s sustainability agenda and reputation Excellent IT literacy to support presentation and report writing Excellent written communication skills; excellent oral skills (including public speaking, meeting facilitation and presentations), ideally with experience of bid writing.
E
E
Global Talent Visa Route
The Global Talent visa is an alternative route to sponsorship, directly applied for by the applicant. It is open to those wishing to work in the UK and who are a leader or potential leader in the fields of academia or research, arts and culture, and digital technology. Further information on the Global Talent Route can be found via: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent For additional information on both visa sponsorship and non-sponsorship visa routes, please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
E
D
E
E E
Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS)
Academics and Researchers applying for Skilled Worker visas and Sponsored Researchers applying for Government Authorised Exchange visas who will be undertaking research activities, at PhD level or above, in the one of the ATAS listed subject areas will be required to obtain an ATAS certificate before they can apply for a visa to work in the UK. Exemptions will exist for nationals from the EEA, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and USA and those applying for Global Talent Visas. For further information on this, please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website: https://www.gov.uk/ guidance/find-out-if-you-require-an-atas-certificate
E
Skills/ Abilities
E
E E
Ability to analyse and interpret data
E
Strong business and financial acumen
E
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.
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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