Waste Projects Assistant (x2)
About Us
Job Title Waste Projects Assistant
Salary Range £31,821 - £38,560
Fixed Term (12 months), Full time
Locations Hybrid, Wandsworth (Frogmore Depot, Wandsworth) and or Richmond (Civic Centre, Twickenham)
Introduction
Are you keen to help reduce waste and improve our recycling services and carbon performance?
Would you like to help improve community toilet provision for local residents in Richmond?
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 two Waste Project Assistants to help deliver waste/recycling related projects and trials in the London borough of Wandsworth and to help complete recent work on improving Richmond’s Community Toilet Scheme. You will help to deliver our climate and environment related action plans by helping to reduce waste, increase re-use and improve the delivery of recycling services along with related performance.
You will also be required to travel to locations around the borough regularly to conduct site visits, deliver public engagement activities and to meet with stakeholders. This may also involve early morning site visits to monitor levels of participation in recycling services.
Home working is permitted subject to operational requirements and in accordance with Council policies, and equipment will be provided to enable this.
These roles are fixed-term contracts for one 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.
Objective of the role
Improving recycling and waste collection service performance on Council managed housing estates in Wandsworth.
Supporting the roll-out of weekly collection services for recycling household food waste across Wandsworth.
Completing recent efforts to improve Richmond’s Community Toilets Scheme to improve coverage including baby change and wheelchair accessible facilities. (This is envisaged to involve the equivalent of 3 months full time work that may be spread over a longer period and will be allocated to a single post holder.)
About the roles
- Estates waste/recycling service improvement (Wandsworth): The post holders will support the delivery of rubbish and recycling service improvements designed to increase recycling performance and reduce litter and fly-tipping on council managed housing estates. This will involve helping to identify, deliver, and monitor improvements including container capacities, appearance, locations and associated communications with residents to improve their engagement with recycling services and reduce bin overflows.
- Weekly food recycling collection service roll-out (Wandsworth): The post holders will support the roll-out of weekly food waste recycling collection services to all households across the Borough. In particular, this will involve site visits and liaising with property management agents to agree suitable locations for food recycling containers to be installed in communal and accessible ground level locations.
- Community Toilet Scheme Improvement (Richmond): The post holder will complete the improvement work undertaken by the previous post holder. This will include recruiting new businesses to the scheme and promoting it to residents and visitors to the borough,
- Other projects, outreach and engagement designed to help improve recycling performance and/or otherwise improve environmental performance (both boroughs): The post holders are likely to help deliver other projects that haven’t yet been defined and will help to deliver outreach and engagement e.g. at public events and/or schools.
The post holders will support each other as well as other post holders in similar roles that have already been recruited. They will work according to local delivery priorities at the time and will be subject to the limitations on cross-borough working listed above.
In addition to the above, the post holders will:
Support the delivery of other services/projects designed to improve recycling performance and/or reduce the carbon impacts associated with managing local authority collected waste.
Support the delivery of improved recycling performance from existing services e.g. through assisting with related communications and engagement.
Plan and prioritise their own workload to assist in delivering projects within defined timescales.
Liaise with 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.
Attend outreach events to promote recycling services through engagement with local residents.
Assist with monitoring the performance of waste services and projects.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Project delivery-You should hold knowledge and practical experience of delivering effective projects in a supporting role.
Knowledge of local authority waste and recycling services, procedures and techniques.
Managing data-You should have experience of developing and maintaining large datasets.
Communication skills-You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Client engagement-You should have experience of effective engagement with community groups, property managers, small businesses and other stakeholders
Site Visits-You must have 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.
Please submit the following:
Your current up to date profile.
A supporting statement detailing why you are applying for the post and how you meet each of the criteria set out in the person specification.
If you are having difficulty in applying online, please contact the Recruitment Team at recruitment@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk to see if we can offer alternative arrangements for you to apply.
Closing Date: Sunday 12th January 2025 (23:59)
Shortlisting Date: w/c Monday 13th January 2025
Interview Date: w/c Monday 27th January 2025
Please note that these dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change. The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
Richmond and Wandsworth Councils
