Sustainability Manager

The Role

Unite Students` fantastic Sustainability team are looking for an experienced Sustainability Manager to join us in Bristol.

The Sustainability Manager reports into the Head of Sustainability, and plays a central role in achieving our overall sustainability ambition. The purpose of the role is to lead on educating, engaging, encouraging and empowering key stakeholders to help Unite Students fulfil our sustainability ambition.

This role is about maximising the impact the Sustainability Team can make by inspiring and empowering others to play their part, and making sustainability business as usual for our employees, residents and suppliers!

What You`ll Be Doing

• Helping to ensure our sustainability strategy remains focused on the most materially significant issues, includes clear and credible ambitions and targets, and is understood and supported across the business.
• Leading and coordinating our approach to enabling and encouraging our residents to adopt lasting responsible living habits.
• Leading and coordinating our approach to educating and empowering our employees play their part in achieving our sustainability ambitions.
• Leading and coordinating our approach to engaging our suppliers to improve their environmental and social performance.
• Providing expertise and support across the team and business on relevant environmental sustainability topics.
• Playing a key role in sustainability related reporting and disclosure in line with regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Helping to maintain and improve sustainability related governance, policies and procedures across the business.
• Work closely with colleagues in the Sustainability Team as required on broad sustainability topics, and line manage the Sustainability Coordinator who works across the team supporting key activity.

What We`re Looking for in You

• Passionate about sustainability and keen to make a real difference, with a strong background in corporate sustainability. Experience planning and implementing sustainability programmes across large multi-site businesses, inspiring others, and working with different functions and teams to create a real and measurable impact.
• Familiarity with sustainability and ESG regulation and voluntary frameworks and schemes covering commitments, reporting and disclosure.
• Great communication, people and influencing skills, able to work collaboratively and supportively across different functions and sites to drive up engagement and participation.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate and deliver behavioural change and engagement activity that drives environmental and social sustainability.
• Able to organise workload, manage competing priorities and focusing on delivery while also dealing with evolving requirements and business change.
• Preferable a degree level or higher qualification in a relevant sustainability related subject, and membership of a relevant professional body (ICRS, IEMA, etc).
• Bristol based and able to work at least 3 days either in our Bristol office or on one of our sites.

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.