Energy Saving Trust Assistant Manager Recruitment

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Current vacancies

Assistant Manager, Scottish Transport

Location: Edinburgh

Closing date: 8th June 2012

Position reference number: IM 802

Salary: Grade 4 position

Hours: full time

We have vacancies for an Assistant Manager, Scottish Transport in Edinburgh.

The purpose of the role is to cover a number of areas that the transport team manage on behalf of Transport Scotland and will include: disseminating information on the carbon footprint of the Scottish public sector fleet (that EST has previously collected), work with a small number of public sector organisations regarding their grey fleet, take forward work of extending www.Chooseanotherway.com as well as assisting with delivery of fuel efficient driver training and helping with the work undertaken by our Transport Advisors located in our network of Energy Saving Scotland advice centres.

The main responsibilities of the role will be to:

• Produce two sector specific reports based upon the benchmarking data captured in 2011-12 and dissemination of information through either workshops or webinars with each sector.  This is to encourage each sector to continue to focus on reducing emissions of vehicle pollutants affecting air quality.

• Work with at least five public sector organisations to help them implement the recommendations contained in the EST report crafted for each and to ensure that recommendations are understood and implemented as fully as possible to help the public sector implement best practice, save money and reduce emissions.

• Work with Transport Scotland and the 2020 transport sub group to redirect Chooseanotherway.com from being a specific travel plan web site and change direction in agreement with the other partners to change the focus to more sustainable business travel.

• Run a series of webinars to maintain a flow of relevant information to Chooseanotherway.com customers

To be successful in this role you will have:

• In-depth knowledge of the environmental impact of transport and understanding of how to measure carbon footprint.
• Relevant transport/environment sector knowledge.
• Experience helping to deliver programmes or projects.
• Project management exposure/experience.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Computer literacy (Outlook, Word, Excel).

To apply please email hr@est.org.uk with a CV and a covering letter stating why you wish to be considered for the role and quoting reference IM 802 by Friday 8th June 2012. Only people with the right to work in the UK may apply for this position.

Due to potential high volumes of applicants, if you do not receive correspondence from us within two weeks of the close date your application has on this occasion been unsuccessful.