COMMUNITY AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT MANAGER

Edinburgh - Central Area, Midlothian, United Kingdom

UE07 £34,304 - £40,927 per annum

Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Open ended, 35 hours per week

We are looking for a Community and Student Engagement Manager to independently co-ordinate and autonomously deliver to the local community a high quality, self-starting & comprehensive community engagement function on behalf of the Forests, Peatlands and Rural Land Manager, Director of SRS and the University, ensuring that all work undertaken is processed efficiently, completely and delivered within the required timescales. To also engage with University students and staff to promote engagement with, and use of the forests and land assets.

The Opportunity:
Purposes of the role include liaising with project colleagues, contractors and partners and the local community to promote the establishment and operation of new initiatives in carbon reduction, teaching & learning, tourism & leisure, greenspace health, small scale renewables and rural land management, as necessary to underpin and sustainably and sensitively deliver the University’s carbon reduction strategy and goal of becoming a net zero carbon university by 2040.

The post-holder will liaise with the local community and to all intents and purposes will be the ‘face’ of the University to the community, and the main channel through which the community would engage with the University.

Your Skills and Attributes for Success:
• Experience of high quality and effective community engagement, particularly in the area of new business or projects in a rural setting.
• An understanding of forestry, environment, land use and related issues, including whole-system effects and the potential impacts on / interdependency with, local communities.
• Proven experience in organising and leading conservation work and events for students, schools and the public.
• Proven experience in consultation management including updating web page information, producing videos and events materials.
• Fundamentally you should be passionate about forestry, wildlife and the natural environment.

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What Working at Edinburgh University Offers:
We offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held in Edinburgh in April 2022.

Right to Work
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team
The Social Responsibility and Sustainability was created to help the University achieve its ambitions. The first of our kind in the UK, we are here to help staff and students who want to change our University.

We work with almost every part of the University on programmes that help our neighbours, cut pollution, or ensure the wellbeing of the people who work on behalf of the University here and all over the world.

We look for new ways to tackle some of the most difficult challenges our world will ever face. We write down our plans, and report on how things are going.

Find out more at www.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/about

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