Sustainability Assistant, Campus Sustainability Office

The Campus Sustainability Office (CSO) is responsible for managing programs, initiatives and day-to-day activities to improve UWinnipeg’s environmental performance and achieve strategic objectives related to social and environmental responsibility. The Sustainability Assistant is a part time (5-17.5 hours per week role) responsible for assisting and supporting ongoing campus sustainability efforts. 

Responsibilities:

• Maintain office filing system, track office spending, and triage and assist with managing the CSO email account.
• Assist with online engagement by producing engaging content for the CSO newsletter, social media accounts, and website.
• Book meeting rooms and help with event planning where applicable.
• Attend meetings with the CSO team and keep meeting minutes.
• Help organize initiatives and act as the CSO representative during various forms of campus outreach and engagement including tabling during orientation weeks; giving class talks; and connecting with student groups at meetings and events.
• Help coordinate Sustainability Ambassadors and daily waste diversion initiatives.
• Support the CSO with data analysis by maintaining data collection spreadsheets and filing systems for reporting indicators such as the waste database and STARS.
• Assist with conducting campus-wide waste audits by helping to recruit and orient auditors; organize shifts; and log, analyze, and disseminate data.
• Support the Green Office Program by drafting communications, conducting office walkthroughs, and delivering presentations.
• Assist CSO staff in writing content and preparing graphs for various reporting requirements and carry out data collection for research projects.
• Assist with other new or pre-existing initiatives that enhance sustainability at UWinnipeg.

Qualifications:

• High School Education and enrolled in a bachelor’s program (preferably at UWinnipeg).
• Two years position-relevant employment experience would be preferred.
• Experience with office procedures, event planning, research, and communications preferred.
• Experience with volunteering/organizing with environmental causes.
• Passionate about social and environmental change work.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Must be passionate, self-motivated and demonstrate the potential to work in a dynamic, exciting, fast-paced working environment.
• Must have computer skills in MS Office and internal/email communication.
• Must have proven quantitative reasoning abilities and facility manipulating spreadsheets.
• Must have proven analytical ability.
• Must have experience creating engaging content for social media and with utilizing various social media platforms.
• Must be able to work effectively with a wide range of target audiences (students, faculty, staff, and community) and personalities.
• Must be able to reason through problems, issues, and scenarios, to sound conclusions.
• Must be capable of working with multiple simultaneous priorities.
• Must be tactful and diplomatic.

An equivalent combination of education, experience, skills, knowledge and abilities may be considered. 

Condition(s) of Employment:

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

The salary range for this position will be from $18.45 to $26.28 hourly.

Note: The work described in this posting will be conducted in-person.

The University of Winnipeg is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognizes that a diverse staff and faculty benefits and enriches the work, learning and research environments, and is essential to academic and institutional excellence. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and encourage women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons to confidentially self-identify at time of application.

The University of Winnipeg is committed to ensuring employment opportunities are accessible for all applicants. If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process, please contact human_resources@uwinnipeg.ca.

The personal information of applicants is collected under the authority of the University of Winnipeg Act and 36(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. All personal information collected via the recruitment process is used to assess the applicant’s suitability, eligibility, and qualifications for employment, and to otherwise support recruitment activities. This information will be provided to participating members of the recruitment process. Questions regarding the collection of your personal information may be directed to the Director, HR Services, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9 or human_resources@uwinnipeg.ca.