Sustainability Communications Placement

Salary: £23,393 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits . We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 28th June 2024

The Role

The Sustainability Team lead on embedding sustainability throughout University activity; working with colleagues, students, and partners to deliver transformational change towards the University’s sustainability commitments and target for net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.

We are looking for either a current undergraduate who is taking a placement year, or a student who is graduating in 2024 from an undergraduate programme to join our Sustainability Team. Your brief is to support us in raising awareness of action sustainability action and tackling the climate emergency at Newcastle University, supporting our community to make a positive change.

This role provides the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of embedding sustainability within a large, complex organisation. Taking action on the climate and ecological crises requires collective work throughout our communities towards positive change and, increasingly, employers are looking to bring people into their organisations with the ability to enable that change. The role will provide first-hand insight into the work of embedding sustainability throughout Newcastle University and the opportunity for you to make your mark and have an impact on this work. The knowledge, skills and experience gained will equip you for the future work of the world towards a more sustainable future.

This role is fixed term for one year and is an opportunity open to only a current undergraduate student who is taking a placement year or a student who is graduating in 2024 from any undergraduate programme.

To apply please upload your CV and one page letter of application that outlines how you can evidence the criteria in the knowledge, skills, and experience section below.

Interviews will be held on Friday 19th July.

To have a chat about this opportunity please reach out to Katherine Smith at katherine.smith@newcastle.ac.uk

Key Accountabilities
Create engaging and informative content for our internal and external websites and help us to improve user experience
Produce regular blog posts and newsletter articles on sustainability-related projects and initiatives
Design physical and digital marketing assets in line with the University’s brand
Support the planning and delivery of online and in-person events including, for example, room bookings, ordering catering and production of promotional materials
Manage the Sustainable Campus email inbox (the main point of contact for the Sustainability Team)
Assist team members with their work tasks and projects where needed

The Person

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Passion for sustainability and driven towards embedding positive change within the University
Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to tailor content to an audience
Customer-focused and highly motivated
Experience of developing marketing materials
Good organisational skills
Able to work under own initiative as well as part of a team
Desirable
Creative with an eye for detail
Familiar with graphic design software (e.g. adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign or similar)
Familiar with Microsoft Office, including Excel

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.
Requisition ID: 27087