Person Specification
Essential Criteria • Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to develop effective working relationships, both internally and externally. • Customer centric • Commercial acumen • Proven IT skills, including use of Microsoft Office/365. • Educated to degree level, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline or relevant equivalent experience working at a similar level, in a large complex organisation. • Professional practitioner with specialist sustainability knowledge and expertise used to influence events and activities within the organisation. • Continuing professional development required to maintain professional recognition. • Extensive knowledge and experience of ensuring compliance with regulatory and organisational policy and guidelines. • Extensive experience of developing sustainability and energy strategies and policies. • Extensive experience of analysing and manipulating complex data and providing specialist advice and guidance to a range of customers and colleagues, including more senior colleagues. • Ability to contribute to planning at operational and strategic levels. • Demonstrable ability to provide specialist advice and influence others at operational at strategic levels. • Extensive experience of being able to network effectively, internally and externally, and develop strong and productive working relationships, to influence perceptions of the University. • Extensive knowledge of sustainability and energy legislation. • Track record of management and development experience and/or an enhanced management qualification applied across a large service team or teams, in a customer focussed and/or complex organisation. • Extensive experience of developing, implementing and/or managing KPIs and benchmarking data. • Evidence of implementing change in relation to sustainability and energy. Desirable Criteria • Masters degree, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline (or equivalent experience). • Membership of a relevant professional body. • Experience of working in, or with, a higher education institution or comparable complex organisation. • Experience of successfully applying BREEAM on new/existing buildings.
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