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Better Bankside is Recruiting
Deadline for Applications: 11pm on Monday 28th April 2025
Sustainability Manager
Salary: £42,940
Hours: Full time. Some early morning, evening and weekend working required.
Location: Better Bankside, Bankside Space, 18 Great Guildford Street, London, SE1 0FD
Contract: Permanent
Better Bankside is seeking a dynamic Sustainability Manager to support its ambition for Bankside to become one of London’s most sustainable neighbourhoods.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work with strategic partners and member businesses to shape and deliver a bold action plan for decarbonisation, climate mitigation and climate resilience, building on our track record of successful sustainability initiatives, including the Southwark Climate Collective.
Better Bankside is one of the UK’s longest established Business Improvement Districts and following a successful member ballot, is entering its fifth term. The Sustainability Manager will join at a pivotal moment: shaping and delivering the ‘Greener’ goals at the heart of our five-year plan.
Innovation, collaboration, and strong partnerships are central to Better Bankside’s success, and the Sustainability Manager will play a key role in a driven, goal-focused team, working alongside some of London's most influential stakeholders.
Sustainability Manager Role
The Sustainability Manager is responsible for delivering a range of innovative and creative initiatives as part of Better Bankside’s commitment to a Stronger, Greener, Happier neighbourhood. These include:
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Evolving the Southwark Climate Collective to support Bankside SMEs in decarbonising their business and operations and achieving Net Zero.
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Design and deliver our next iteration of green logistics support for local businesses, focusing on deliveries consolidation and greener last mile. Primary aims are to improve air quality, pollution heavy traffic and reduce costs to businesses.
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Evolve our current waste and recycling support to local businesses and develop a platform for embedding a more sustainable Circular Economy.
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Support the Placemaking Manager in delivering a more climate resilient and biodiverse public realm in Bankside, using Urban Greening Factor and Biodiversity Net Gain measures.
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Identify and deliver targeted partnership-based training and awareness-raising campaigns to increase our members’ knowledge, skills and capacity around climate mitigation, resilience and achieving net zero or sustainable targets.
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Collaborate locally, regionally, and nationally to leverage skills, knowledge, and funding, ensuring we achieve our goals and influence long-term outcomes for our businesses.
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Manage Better Bankside’s bimonthly ‘Sustainability Theme Group’ ensuring goals, business plans and our delivered actions have members’ support and respond to their needs.
You can view further details including job description and person specification here
As part of its commitment to being a more inclusive and diverse organisation, Better Bankside uses the Applied platform to reduce bias in the recruitment process.
The deadline for applications is 11:00pm, 28th Apr 2025 BST
