Graduate Sustainability Project Officer

Role: Graduate Sustainability Project Officer

Location: Support Office, Doncaster

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 8:15am – 4:45pm, Monday to Friday

The Opportunity

As our Graduate Sustainability Project Officer, you’ll kickstart your career at the forefront of sustainable innovation, playing a key role in delivering our sustainability strategy and helping shape the future of homebuilding. You’ll be part of our mission to become the market leader in customer experience, with sustainability and social purpose at the heart of everything we do.

You’ll work alongside passionate teams, contribute to real projects, and help embed sustainability into every corner of our company, focusing on enhancing ESG reporting, elevating our sustainability credentials and driving improved environmental performance and standards across our sites.

You will have the opportunity to build a strong foundation in sustainability by gaining hands-on experience across a wide range of impactful areas. Through a blend of practical experience, mentorship and formal training, you’ll grow your skills while helping to deliver meaningful, lasting change in the communities we serve.

Who we are

We are a modern family business over 100 years’ experience designing and building quality, contemporary new homes. You’d think being over 100 years old that we’d be set in our ways, always doing what we’ve always done right? Wrong.

We are a unique brand synonymous with contemporary design, innovative marketing, and exemplary levels of customer service. From the house type range, the web-driven sales process, to the show home experience and personalisation options coupled with absolute adherence to quality: we are truly focused on exceeding customer expectations. Our team are always looking for ways to improve, innovate, and challenge the norm. You’ll have heard this before, but here you aren’t just a number, and we can prove it. We’re really proud to have been certified as a “Great Place to Work”, ranking #38 in Best Places to work for Wellbeing, #58 in Best Workplaces for Development, #30 in Best Workplaces for Women and #34 in the Best Workplaces list. So it goes without saying, we have something special. You’ll work in a place where your uniqueness is cherished, your development is championed, and you’re given all of the tools you’ll need to flourish. You’ll join a team with a vision to become the market leading customer experience home builder underpinned by our sustainability and social purpose credentials.

Responsibilities of the role

• Assist the delivery of our sustainability strategy across all focus areas through project delivery, monitoring and reporting.
• Collate, monitor and report on key sustainability metrics, including environmental performance, carbon emissions, energy consumption, social value delivery and other key indicators in line with industry best practice and frameworks.
• Support supply chain mapping and engagement to understand and improve sustainability performance throughout the value chain.
• Create and deliver training and engagement to team members to improve the wider team\’s knowledge, understanding and performance of key sustainability issues and our sustainability strategy.
• Collect data and evidence to ensure compliance against sustainability benchmarks, frameworks and standards, including but not exclusive to the NextGeneration benchmark, Considerate Constructors Scheme and B-Corp.
• Provide support to site teams to ensure compliance, communicate best practice and to roll out initiatives to improve the environmental and social impact of our work.
• Assist the delivery of engagement opportunities to community stakeholders through a variety of events, workshops, education experiences and other community outreach mechanisms.
• Shadow the Sustainability Manager to support the delivery of site environmental audits.
• Stay informed about key sustainability legislation and industry trends to support business performance.

What’s in it for you?

• Is Laughing Yoga or flower arranging for you? Maybe a climbing wall or fitness classes are more your thing. You’ll find out at our wellbeing mornings, where we all down tools and try new activities as a team in our Support Office. From mocktail making to pottery painting, there’s something for everyone.
• A personalised health report annually from our partner Champion Health.
• Dedicated time for you to spend on your own development with our personal development days and access to a whole host of content through My Development Portal.
• Access to our partner platform Benefex, which gives you access to purchase a whole host of discounted benefit options via salary sacrifice such as dental plans, pension salary sacrifice, PMI, gym memberships, cycle to work schemes plus many more.
• Financial support when you are ill, with a generous company sick pay scheme.
• Your health needs covered with level 1 Westfield Health cover for you and dependent children.
• The encouragement to take a well-earned break with a holiday allowance of 26 days plus the usual public holidays, and the added flexibility to purchase up to 5 extra days each year through our holiday purchase scheme.
• A Strata Group Fund pension scheme with a minimum contribution from you of 3% and we’ll contribute 6%. This rises to a member contribution of 4% and we’ll contribute 7% for anyone 40 or over.
• Death in service benefit of a minimum 4x basic salary.
• The opportunity to work flexibly in a way that works for you (role dependent).
• A whole host of Fundraising, Volunteering and Social events to get involved in

Are you the brick to our mortar?

Then Join Us!