AY Environmental Sustainability Fellow (WS-ST2)
About The Position
The Environmental Sustainability Fellow serves to assist the Finance department, Facilities, the Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC) or its successor with strategic tasks, collect, manage, and analyze sustainability related data, work with a diverse array of units of the college, and assist with updates to the college sustainability web pages, sustainability map, and community updates through content creation. This role involves transferable skills such as data collection and analysis, environmental footprint assessments and action steps, project workflows, communication (interpersonal, public speaking & digital storytelling), and collaboration/teamwork.
Requirements
- Proficiency with Excel/Google spreadsheet software, presentation software, and data visualization and analysis.
- Familiarity with digital communication, especially website and social media content creation.
- Demonstrated collaborator with interest in policies and practices connected to sustainability or environmental concerns.
- Ability to work independently/self-directed.
- Attention to details and accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Help execute and contribute to the design of at least one major project over the work period and support additional work as directed.
- Work with Finance, Facilities, and ESC members to construct, implement, and maintain a workflow process that captures information required for annual and monthly environment and sustainability reporting from units across the college.
- Engage units at the college that hold environment and sustainability related data.
- Leverage prior work done by other fellows, the ESC, collaborators, and various EnvSt 237 ACE teams.
- Create visualizations that reflect fiscal year contributions to environmental footprints at the college and facilitate comparisons to other higher ed institutions, including Greenhouse Gas equivalent emissions (GHG): Scope I, Scope II, Scope III; Water resources: potable water, wastewater; Material reuse and landfill diversion: recycling, composting, paper (office & towels), landfill. Normalize by various institutional characteristics: building gross square foot managed, student full-time equivalents, heating & cooling degree days.
- Collaborate with Finance staff to update the sustainability website based on recommendations created by ESC and guidance by Marketing and Communications.
- Update, research and add information to the campus sustainability Google map.
- Collaboratively create resources (physical and electronic) communicating campus environment and sustainability information and advice, such as brochures/short videos for students covering campus sustainability key points (e.g., material reuse and landfill diversion, water and energy conservation advice, climate change conversation starters).
- Connect actions to UN Sustainable Development Goals and to college mission.
- Consider parallel material for faculty & staff.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
