Sustainability Coordinator

We are looking for someone who is passionate and enthusiastic about Sustainability and making a positive impact to join our Sustainability team as Sustainability Coordinator.

You will play an important role in supporting the delivery of the airport’s sustainability agenda across environmental, social and governance priorities, working towards becoming Champions in Sustainable Aviation. You will have the opportunity to support the Sustainability Team with key business-critical projects and initiatives, ensuring these are well organised, effectively communicated and delivered on track and within budget.

This will include supporting key sustainability programmes, performance reporting, stakeholder engagement and internal communications, as well as supporting the airport’s wider sustainability ambitions and commitments. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain broad experience across sustainability in a high-performing team, develop your understanding of ESG in a complex airport environment and a fantastic way to start your journey in sustainability.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

Team Support

To support team administration duties such as minute-taking, meeting coordination, inbox monitoring, and use of ID Gateway.
To be the point of contact and go-to person for all generic Sustainability team enquiries as well as general coordination duties for the Sustainability team.
Supporting the team by liaising with the procurement team and assisting with the tendering process, developing tender documents and cost schedules.
Coordinate and support the team in undertaking finance and budget administration tasks.
To support team members with various projects across our key focus areas: Environment (E), Social (S) and Governance (G).

Environment

To coordinate the air quality programme, including collection of air quality tubes, ensuring the air quality testing programme is delivered correctly.
To coordinate the waste champions programme with concession partners, ensuring we enable the airport to continue with high recycling rates.
To support departmental risk and compliance programmes, accurately supporting tracking and monitoring risk, working with the Environmental Compliance Manager.
To support coordination of our ISO 14001 and 50001 audits.

Social

To support and coordinate volunteering and fundraising activities, helping to grow the impact of these activities and capture the impact through the collation of social data.
To support and coordinate the charity champions network across the business.
To coordinate and support the delivery of the various Skills, Education and Outreach programmes that deliver our strategic cross-departmental Classroom to Careers programme.
To coordinate all cash donations across the airport as well as continuously exploring new ways to increase donations.

Governance

To support Environment, Social, and Governance reporting, collating and coordinating data collection to support internal and external data submissions, including to our shareholders.
Lead the monthly data reporting tasks such as board dashboard, waste engagement posters and other regular reporting items, supporting the governance team.
To support carbon footprinting analysis and coordinating the process for our continued ESG accreditations process ensuring these are delivered on time for submission.

Knowledge, skills & experience

Essential

Self-motivated and proactive team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Excellent verbal, written, and literacy skills. Good numeracy skills and data interpretation
An accurate individual, self-checking to ensure precise and correct information is produced as well as the ability to work independently
The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, as well as under pressure and to deadlines
An organised approach to managing themselves and their work, in order to meet deadlines with excellent administration skills
Experience working in a fast-changing environment, delivering successful projects and events with the ability to prioritise
An interest in Sustainability and the future of aviation, including the role an airport plays within the industry and within our community & economy.

Desirable