Overview

The STFC Graduate scheme will give you the opportunity to really pursue your interests and passion early in your journey with us, supported by technical training and a broader programme of career support and training and development.

Our dedicated Graduate Development Team will provide the right combination of challenge and support throughout, helping you achieve your ambitions. We know that professional recognition is also important to you too, so we will provide mentoring and expertise to help you achieve valued qualifications or chartered status in your chosen field.

We are seeking two enthusiastic graduates to be at the heart of ensuring the team works well, with a focus on carbon emission reductions and efficiencies supporting the team to embed environmental sustainability across a sophisticated organisation. You need to show you have knowledge of carbon emissions, energy consumption to support our approach to energy efficiencies and communicate the agenda effectively across our science departments. You will be an agent for change, helping to drive the environmental strategic agenda forward.

This opportunity will work within a small and supportive team across all STFC sites throughout the UK. You will be coached/mentored towards either Chartered Environmentalist of SocEnv or an Associate Membership of IEMA.

Key duties include:

  • Using your knowledge to improve environmental sustainability performance across STFC sites
  • Developing and delivering communications, engagement, events and initiatives that encourage action and culture change to support our environmental sustainability commitments
  • Using your skills and experience, develop and deliver sophisticated and high-profile carbon reduction projects to support the delivery of our Net Zero targets

Person Specification

In order to apply for the role we are looking for the following:

Essential:

  • Great people skills, the ability to work across hierarchies and engage various people about a complex agenda. An understanding of the complexities around behaviour/culture change
  • Creative thinker with demonstrable communication skills, and capability to write a variety of content to drive change
  • Teamwork and an understanding of stakeholder engagement, experience of events coordination
  • Self-motivated, organised, able to work on own initiative and largely unsupervised with the ability to cope with a high volume of work.
  • Multi – tasking, designing and completing projects/initiatives that include multiple layers and complex stakeholder management and deliver different projects simultaneously
  • Strong knowledge of the causes of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon, energy cycles and hierarchy approaches to environmental aspects. A broad understanding of the legislative and local, national and international policy frameworks for environmental sustainability

Desirable: 

  • Student Membership of IEMA
  • A passion for environmental sustainability and becoming a change agent
  • Experience of working with procurement or travel teams

Please note that we hold the right to close this vacancy early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.