Sustainability Advisor

Job Description

Recruiter: NATIONAL GRID

Location: Warwick, Warwickshire Salary: £32-38k Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Closes: 13 Feb 2015 Ref: 04693 Industry: Engineering, Utility,Environment, Sustainability,General Hours: Full Time Contract: Permanent Listing Type: Job vacancy

National Grid is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and lights everyone’s way home. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing and improving. That’s why we need the very best people to join the team. And that’s why we’re talking to you.

About the Role

To support National Grid’s strategic objective to embed sustainability, through providing support and advice, tools and techniques that promote the integration of sustainability into our business activities. The postholder will engage with both internal and external stakeholders to communicate the environmental and business benefits of adopting a sustainable approach.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive environmental sustainability initiatives into our business units, delivering real benefits to National Grid, the environment and local communities
• Develop tools and techniques that support the environmental sustainability agenda, such as quantification of economic and environmental risks and opportunities.
• Provide specialist advice on environmental sustainability issues as required
• Support the design, development and implementation of sustainability metrics, goals, business plans and reporting tools and work with key stakeholders to embed them in our business units
• Engage with external peers to identify good practice, taking learning from these and adapting and applying to National Grid circumstances as appropriate
• Work collaboratively with communications teams to tell our sustainability story to external stakeholders and employees

About you

Essential experience

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability and confidence to communicate and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Demonstrable passion for sustainability, with high levels of enthusiasm and drive to achieve results
• Capability to engage and inform internal and external stakeholders in innovative ways
• Strong team worker, committed to stakeholder satisfaction and performance improvement
• Resilient, with the confidence and courage to challenge behaviours and issues

Desirable experience

• Broad knowledge of current climate change and sustainability issues.
• Knowledge of environmental legislation
• Skills and experience in organising complex data into clear and compelling messages
• Ability to use judgement in decision making where information may be incomplete
• Broad appreciation of National Grid’s business and how sustainability can help to achieve its objectives

Qualifications

· Suitable scientific/engineering/economic based technical or professional qualification such as Degree, HNC or equivalent experience

Who we are

At National Grid, we don’t just ask our people to deliver to the highest standards. We also support them to be the best they can be. Accredited training programmes and personal development courses are a part of life here. We value and encourage diversity of thought, whatever your background. By creating an inclusive, switched-on workforce, we drive performance and deliver excellence. Which is exactly what we need to achieve our vision of creating sustainable energy solutions, for today and tomorrow.

We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.