University of Birmingham - Head of Sustainability

University of Birmingham - Head of Sustainability

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY

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Having been founded as the first civic university in the UK the University of Birmingham is committed to making a positive economic, social, and cultural contribution through our education and research. We serve our diverse and vibrant region in many ways, including through addressing sustainability challenges at the Tyseley Energy Park, working closely with local NHS partners to establish the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus, and establishing the non-selective University of Birmingham School. We work with industry, business, universities, and governments around the world to address global challenges in areas as broad as rail engineering, maternal health, interfaith studies, air and water pollution, and social inequality. Ranked in the top 100 universities globally, Birmingham is a member of the Russell Group and a founder member of the Universitas 21 global network of research universities. We offer one of the broadest range of programmes of all UK universities, teaching 38,000 students and employing 8,500 staff. We are a highly diverse community: our staff and students come from Birmingham and the West Midlands, across the UK, and from around the world. Ten of our alumni and staff have been recognised with Nobel Prizes, and many others are recipients of the most prestigious awards in their fields. We rank highly amongst employers seeking to recruit graduates.

The University of Birmingham

Our heritage as the original ‘redbrick’ is combined with an ambitious agenda to continue the transformation of the University. In recent years we have significantly increased the number of leading academic colleagues, and have undertaken a £1 billion renewal of the campus estate. We have established our own non-selective secondary school and sixth form serving the diverse communities of Birmingham, and have just opened our new campus in Dubai. Through our Birmingham 2030 Strategic Framework we have set an aspiration to become a top 50 global institution. We recognise this is a genuinely challenging aim, which will require a vibrant, intellectually-exciting, and diverse University community for research and education, as well as working closely with our partners in Birmingham and around the world.

Background With more than 8,000 staff, 38,000 students, and a turnover of c.£700m, the University of Birmingham is a leading Russell Group University. Our heritage as the UK’s original ‘red brick’ and civic university, is combined with one of the most compelling and ambitious agendas in higher education. The University of Birmingham’s Strategic Framework 2030 sets out our ambition. With world-class research and outstanding global education as our core mission, we will strive to increase the volume and quality of our research to make an even greater difference to the world around us. We will be the UK’s exemplary civic university, remaining firmly committed to our foundations in the highly diverse communities, people, and economy of the city of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Birmingham 2030 strengthens our commitment to sustainability as one of six core pillars of our activity. We will use our research and education to make a major global contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and have set out a headline aim to be net zero carbon for scope 1 and 2 by 2035 and overall by 2045. As a research-intensive University founded on social responsibility, we have the expertise and partnerships to play a significant role in tackling global sustainability challenges.

The Head of Sustainability is a new senior role created by the University with a wide-ranging remit to lead and coordinate delivery of the sustainability goals and priorities across the University set out in our Birmingham 2030 Strategic Framework. Working with members of the University Executive Board, senior academics, the Directors of Estates, Campus Services, Finance and their teams, and staff and students across the institution, you will support the University to deliver our sustainability ambitions. This is an exciting opportunity to be the professional lead for sustainability in a large and complex institution. You will develop an overall plan to embed sustainability in all we do; to deliver our ambitious targets, ensure we collect and monitor the >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16

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