Main duties and responsibilities

De Montfort University is working in partnership with five community organisations to deliver an exciting 3-year project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (Climate Action Fund) in Leicester. Together, the partners have developed the new Leicester Environmental Action & Future (LEAF) partnership hub project to serve diverse and disadvantaged communities across Leicester to engage them in achievable and relevant climate action activities and learning.  LEAF supports DMU’s United Nations Academic Impact Hub Chair status for Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) by empowering grassroots organisations to lead climate action from the ground up, ensuring the agenda is inclusive, locally relevant, and co-created. The project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund Climate Action Fund.  Each partner has a programme of agreed activities, deliverables, outcomes and associated budget over the 3-years of the project.

To deliver the project, we are recruiting a Climate Action Officer with experience of co-ordinating and supporting training and development of community-led climate action or sustainability projects. 

Faculty/Directorate

The United Nations Academic Impact Hub Chair for Sustainable Development Goal 11 is a unit based in the directorate of Executive, Governance and Legal Services. The Climate Action Officer will be a key member of the Sustainable Development Goal Hub (SDG Hub) team at DMU. The hub is based in Heritage House at De Montfort University, Leicester, along with colleagues from across the University.

The Role

The Climate Action Officer will work closely with the Climate Action Co-ordinator, the hub associate director and DMU’s Education for Sustainable Development academic lead. As well as working with the LEAF partners and DMU staff team, the post-holder will work alongside 3 freelance consultants engaged to support the project with specialist knowledge in evaluation, organisation development and PR and communications.

The postholder will be based within the DMU Sustainable Development Goal Hub in Heritage House on the university campus, but will have opportunities to meet, visit and work with the five community partners at their centres.

Ideal Candidate 

You will already be an experienced and confident practitioner in sustainable development processes. You will be able to work with different communities and demonstrate impact and be ready for a new challenge on a highly innovative project. You will support partners with development, delivery and evaluation of activities across a range of projects, and themes, working to support engagement in climate action and promoting opportunities. You will undertake delivery of training to LEAF partners and staff and support the production and disseminate training toolkits while ensuring monitoring, evaluation and feedback is collected.

For more information about the role please click here to view the job description and person specification. 

The salary for this role will be at the bottom of the salary grade/band. 

Contact

If you would like a confidential conversation about the role or would like to use an alternative method to apply for this post, such as audio or video recording please contact the line manager Dr Mark Charlton, Associate Director of the United Nations Academic Impact Hub at DMU on mcharlton@dmu.ac.uk