Volunteer Green Impact Project Assistants/Auditors

What is Green Impact?

UCLan FM Green Team together with UCLan SU Green Ladder are offering an opportunity for students to gain skills in project management, communications and leadership by supporting and motivating staff participating in Green Impact, an environmental awards program run by the National Union of Students in more than 50 Universities and Colleges and 100 Students’ Unions across the UK.

Join staff and students in this vibrant scheme aimed at celebrating and recognizing environmental achievements whilst also providing a framework to improve our environmental performance.

Teams are given access to an online workbook with bronze, silver, gold and platinum criteria to help them create a more sustainable workplace. Each criterion is simple, clear and easy to implement. They will be supported with resources, examples of good practice from within the University and from the other 54 universities and colleges taking part. All participating teams will be awarded for their efforts and depending on their performance will achieve a bronze, silver, gold or platinum standard at an Awards Ceremony in May 2015.

Have a look at our workbook: username: , password: example

For more information on the Green Impact program, please see below, or follow this link:

Commitment:

  • 1 hour a week equivalent over the course of the project (October 2014 - March 2015)
  • 3 hours training (22nd October 2014)
  • 3 hours training and 2 hours auditing (18th March2015)

Objective:

Encourage, motivate and support an assigned Green Impact team in implementing environmental actions in its School/Service or area of work.

To apply for this role contact Amanda Jackson or FM Green Team or express an interest via the SU Green Ladder Project Manager, Emma Bartlet ().

The closing date for applications is17:00 15th October 2014.

Aims:

  • Increase the individual support available for Green Impact Teams, by providing creative input, leading where necessary and taking on specific tasks from the Green Impact workbook
  • Increase student-staff collaboration within Green Impact
  • Encourage your School to set up a Green Impact team
  • Contribute to NUS’ national communications about Green Impact
  • Support the Green Impact auditor process
  • Equip student mentors with useful skills for future employability

Key skills and experience gained:

  • A chance to develop and gain invaluable transferable skills: looks great on the CV!
  • Experience of working on a national project in a professional environment and the chance to influence your School
  • Gain knowledge of environmental practices in the workplace
  • Insight into effective behaviour change methods
  • Volunteer and training hours to put towards SU Green Activist Academy, Livesey Award
  • Experience of communicating using a variety of different means

Key competencies required:

  • An interest in environmental issues (a knowledge of this area is preferable but not essential)
  • Enthusiasm and motivation to make a difference!
  • Good organizational skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • A commitment to the Green Impact program and its aims. For more information on the program please see

Key tasks:

  • Meeting with allocated teams to discuss working arrangements; continue to meet with them periodically (as agreed between team and project assistant)
  • Supporting the team in its Green Impact actions according to its requirements and the agreed goals
  • Collect photographs, case studies and write blog entries for national NUS communications.
  • Communicate with other Project Assistants to support each other
  • Communicate with the FM Green Team on the progress of your assigned teams(s)
  • Work with the team to ensure that their workbook is submitted on time
  • Depending on the teams’ requirements and the Project Assistant’s availability it might be possible to support more than one team.