Sustainability manager

Salary: £44,500

Location: London

Lead sustainability at one of the UK’s most iconic cultural venues, driving real environmental change.

We’re the largest arts centre in the UK and one of the nation's top five visitor attractions. We seek out the world’s most exciting artists, from household names to fresh new talent, and give them space to showcase their best work.

We are currently looking for a Sustainability Manager to join our Director of Estates team on a full time permanent contract. The Sustainability Manager is responsible for providing strategic oversight and delivery of the Southbank Centre’s Environmental Action Plan. This includes motivating and inspiring both staff and visitors to work collaboratively toward environmental performance targets, ensuring that sustainability is embedded across all operations to support the Centre’s long-term ecological commitments and mission.

Key responsibilities

• To be the lead and champion for all matters relating to environmental issues at the SC.
• Implementing the SC environmental Strategy, Policies and practices.
• Devising strategies and projects to meet targets of the Environmental strategy.
• Encourage and motivate best environmental practice.
• Devising the best tools and systems to monitor performance and to implement the Environmental projects.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Although this role is open to all graduates it may help if you have a degree in one of the environmental engineering or science fields.
• Can demonstrate a track record of success in a similar role. Is able to demonstrate and ability to transform strategy into projects and an effective business as usual process.
• Is able to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the role that diversity and inclusion play in the activities of the Southbank Centre as a whole and in the work of this particular job.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

Benefits

As well as working at one of London's most popular and exciting sites the successful candidate will also benefit from the following:​​​​​​​

• A min 5% pension contribution (going up to 9% depending on employee contribution), from day 1 of employment
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family leave benefits
• Up to 30% discounts at onsite retail, food and beverage vendors
• Staff ticket offers for SC events
• Free entry to Hayward Gallery
• Free/discounted entry with other reciprocal organisations
• Free staff yoga

Please download the attached Job Description for a full overview of this role's responsibilities.
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The deadline for applications is 23:59 on the closing date for the job posting.

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We welcome applications from all backgrounds. By attracting people with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. The Southbank Centre is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our colleagues.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

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