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: http://www.greenimpact.org.uk/uclan
[email protected], password: example
username:
For more information on the Green Impact program, please see below, or follow this link:
www.nus.org.uk/greenimpact.
Commitment:
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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 March 2015)
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 [email protected] or FM Green
Team [email protected] or express an interest via the SU Green Ladder Project
Manager, Emma Bartlet ([email protected]).
The closing date for applications is 17:00 15th October 2014.
Aims:
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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:
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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:
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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 www.nus.org.uk/greenimpact
Key tasks:
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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.