The Role
- Are you keen to help reduce waste and improve recycling services for residents and businesses?
- Are you looking for working arrangements that enhance your work-life balance?
- Do you have skills and experience relevant to local authorities, waste management and/or providing project support?
If your answers are yes, we want to hear from you!
We are looking for a Waste Project Assistant to help deliver projects and trials intended to increase food waste recycling in the borough of Richmond upon Thames.
The successful candidate will be able to work from home much of the time in accordance with Council policies and equipment will be provided to enable this. However, you will also be required to travel to locations around the borough regularly, visiting blocks of flats, estates, streets and businesses to make assessments and to meet with stakeholders. This may also involve early morning site visits to monitor levels of participation in recycling services. Access to facilities at Council offices in Twickenham with equipment such as printers and laminators will be available when needed.
This role is a fixed-term contract for one calendar year and you will be part of a small but friendly waste team within a large workforce, most of which serves both Richmond and Wandsworth Councils.
As a Waste Projects Assistant you will:
- Support the delivery of projects designed to increase food waste recycling by installing communal food waste recycling facilities at blocks of flats, addressing low performance areas for existing weekly kerbside food waste recycling collections and introducing a new commercial food waste recycling service for businesses.
- Plan and prioritise your own workload to assist in delivering projects within a defined timescale.
- Proactively assess blocks of flats to develop recommendations for installing new food waste recycling facilities.
- Liaise with all relevant stakeholders including tenants and residents’ associations, property management agents, officers, waste disposal authorities, and contractors as well as local businesses to ensure smooth delivery of the projects.
- Develop and maintain large datasets including address data, contact details and proposals.
About you:
You will have:
- Knowledge and practical experience of delivering effective projects in a supporting role.
- Knowledge of local authority waste and recycling services, procedures and techniques.
- Experience of developing and maintaining large datasets.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of effective engagement with community groups and stakeholders.
- A clean full UK driving licence and/or be able to travel to sites borough wide on a regular basis.
You will be welcomed into a service area which delivers a range of waste and street cleansing related contracts and associated services.
Please submit the following:
- Your current up to date profile
- A supporting statement detailing why you are applying for the post and how you meet each of the criteria set out in the person specification.
If you would like an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Michael Singham, Waste Strategy Manager on 020 8871 8506 during office hours. If you are having difficulty in applying online, please contact the Recruitment Team at recruitment@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk to see if we can offer alternative arrangements for you to apply.
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Indicative Recruitment Timeline:
- Closing Date: Sunday 3rd July 2022
- Shortlisting Date: Week commencing 4th July 2022
- Interview Date: Week commencing 18th July 2022
