Sustainability Engagement Officer
| Posting date: | 17 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,772 to £39,621 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 436467/7 |
Summary
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Sustainability Manager in a wide variety of work
- Administration of the Departmental Sustainability Champion Network. Maintenance of the group, its Teams site, communications, design/delivery of campaigns & ad-hoc events. Recruitment and onboarding of new members
- Colleague engagement on environmental sustainability, to include co-creation of targeted high-profile campaigns with extensive reach through all available comms channels, organising events and developing intranet pages on sustainability to foster behavioural change
- Promotion and delivery of sustainability learning opportunities (including speaking at events)
- Delivery of skills/capability gap analysis on sustainability across DWP to determine training needs
- Production of regular progress updates and metrics to DWPs Sustainability Leadership Forum and its working group on colleague engagement, training, etc
- Ensuring the department capitalises on post pandemic ways of working: Hybrid / minimal printing etc
- Actively participating in networks across Other Government Departments to create Government Department –wide alignment and synergy
- Embedding corporate membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) into DWP, ensuring benefits are realised
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