Sustainability Support Officer - FTC 9 months
| Posting date: | 29 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,969.26 to £25,366.02 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2026 |
| Location: | Mansfield, Midlands, NG18 4RG |
| Company: | The Coal Authority |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 58796518 |
Summary
About You
Are you someone who loves making a difference, thrives on organisation, and has a sharp eye for detail?
If you're also passionate about sustainability and the environment, this could be the perfect role for you.
We’re looking for a motivated and methodical individual to support our sustainability efforts and help us improve the way we work. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a purpose-driven team making a real impact.
What You’ll Bring:
✅ A natural flair for organisation and planning
✅ Confidence working with numbers and data
✅ A keen eye for detail and accuracy
✅ Strong communication skills
✅ A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
✅ Enthusiasm for sustainability and environmental issues
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting sustainability initiatives with data and insight
- Helping to streamline processes and improve efficiency
- Communicating clearly and effectively across teams
- Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, values purpose-led work, and wants to grow their skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
Ready to make a difference?
Apply now and help us build a more sustainable future—one organised step at a time.
About The Role
Our Sustainability Department plays a vital role across the entire organisation, driving forward our sustainability strategy and ensuring we meet our environmental responsibilities. From biodiversity and renewable energy to compliance and waste reporting, the team works on a wide range of impactful initiatives.
As our Sustainability Support Officer, you’ll be at the heart of this work—keeping us organised, efficient, and focused. You’ll help coordinate our Sustainability Programme Board, support the delivery of key projects, manage reporting processes, and contribute to internal communications that celebrate our progress and success.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a small but dynamic team, offering a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills and deepen your understanding of sustainability and the broader mission of the Mining Remediation Authority.
We know that great candidates come from all backgrounds.
Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, if you’re excited about this role and believe you can bring value, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a 9 month fixed term role.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 18th January 2026
Sifting date: 20th January 2026
Interviews: w/c 26th January 2026
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000. We are happy to support you through the process.
Are you someone who loves making a difference, thrives on organisation, and has a sharp eye for detail?
If you're also passionate about sustainability and the environment, this could be the perfect role for you.
We’re looking for a motivated and methodical individual to support our sustainability efforts and help us improve the way we work. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a purpose-driven team making a real impact.
What You’ll Bring:
✅ A natural flair for organisation and planning
✅ Confidence working with numbers and data
✅ A keen eye for detail and accuracy
✅ Strong communication skills
✅ A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
✅ Enthusiasm for sustainability and environmental issues
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting sustainability initiatives with data and insight
- Helping to streamline processes and improve efficiency
- Communicating clearly and effectively across teams
- Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, values purpose-led work, and wants to grow their skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
Ready to make a difference?
Apply now and help us build a more sustainable future—one organised step at a time.
About The Role
Our Sustainability Department plays a vital role across the entire organisation, driving forward our sustainability strategy and ensuring we meet our environmental responsibilities. From biodiversity and renewable energy to compliance and waste reporting, the team works on a wide range of impactful initiatives.
As our Sustainability Support Officer, you’ll be at the heart of this work—keeping us organised, efficient, and focused. You’ll help coordinate our Sustainability Programme Board, support the delivery of key projects, manage reporting processes, and contribute to internal communications that celebrate our progress and success.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a small but dynamic team, offering a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills and deepen your understanding of sustainability and the broader mission of the Mining Remediation Authority.
We know that great candidates come from all backgrounds.
Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, if you’re excited about this role and believe you can bring value, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a 9 month fixed term role.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 18th January 2026
Sifting date: 20th January 2026
Interviews: w/c 26th January 2026
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000. We are happy to support you through the process.
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.