The Role
- Are you keen to help reduce waste and improve our recycling services and carbon performance?
- 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 waste related projects and trials in the boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth. You will help to deliver our climate and environment related strategies and action plans by helping to reduce waste, increase re-use and improve the delivery of recycling services along with related performance.
The successful candidate will be able to work from home frequently 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 and/or Wandsworth 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 new and improved recycling services and projects designed to increase recycling e.g. helping to roll out new food waste recycling services and helping to improve participation and capture rates for existing recycling services. This could involve helping to arrange the installation of communal food waste recycling facilities at blocks of flats, encouraging and supporting community composting projects, monitoring performance, delivering outreach to raise awareness and supporting the planning and delivery of recycling related communications.
- Plan and prioritise your own workload to assist in delivering projects within a defined timescale.
- 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.
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If you would like an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Michael Singham, Waste Strategy Manager on 020 8871 8506 during office hours.
