Sustainability Coordinator

London Luton Airport; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

London Luton Airport Operations Ltd is seeking a passionate Sustainability Coordinator to support environmental, social and governance initiatives. You will help deliver the airport’s sustainability agenda, coordinate key programmes, and ensure effective communication and budget-aligned delivery.

You will gain broad experience across ESG in a busy airport environment, assisting with stakeholder engagement, reporting, and internal communications to champion Sustainable Aviation.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal, written, and literacy skills.
• Good numeracy skills and data interpretation.
• Experience coordinating projects and events in a dynamic environment.
• Strong administration and organisational abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support team administration duties: minute-taking, meeting coordination, inbox monitoring, and use of ID Gateway.
• Act as point of contact for Sustainability team enquiries and general coordination tasks.
• Liaise with procurement and assist with tender documents and cost schedules.
• Coordinate and support budgeting and finance administration tasks.
• Support ESG programmes across Environment, Social and Governance domains.
• Coordinate air quality, waste and ISO audits, and data reporting activities.
• Assist in governance data collection and monthly reporting tasks.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Numeracy

Data interpretation

Microsoft Office

Project coordination

Organization

Team player

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are looking for someone who is passionate and enthusiastic about Sustainability and making a positive impact to join our Sustainability team as Sustainability Coordinator.

You will play an important role in supporting the delivery of the airport's sustainability agenda across environmental, social and governance priorities, working towards becoming Champions in Sustainable Aviation. You will have the opportunity to support the Sustainability Team with key business-critical projects and initiatives, ensuring these are well organised, effectively communicated and delivered on track and within budget.

This will include supporting key sustainability programmes, performance reporting, stakeholder engagement and internal communications, as well as supporting the airport's wider sustainability ambitions and commitments. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain broad experience across sustainability in a high-performing team, develop your understanding of ESG in a complex airport environment and a fantastic way to start your journey in sustainability.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

Team Support

• To support team administration duties such as minute-taking, meeting coordination, inbox monitoring, and use of ID Gateway.
• To be the point of contact and go-to person for all generic Sustainability team enquiries as well as general coordination duties for the Sustainability team.
• Supporting the team by liaising with the procurement team and assisting with the tendering process, developing tender documents and cost schedules.
• Coordinate and support the team in undertaking finance and budget administration tasks.
• To support team members with various projects across our key focus areas: Environment (E), Social (S) and Governance (G).
• To coordinate the air quality programme, including collection of air quality tubes, ensuring the air quality testing programme is delivered correctly.
• To coordinate the waste champions programme with concession partners, ensuring we enable the airport to continue with high recycling rates.
• To support departmental risk and compliance programmes, accurately supporting tracking and monitoring risk, working with the Environmental Compliance Manager.
• To support coordination of our ISO 14001 and 50001 audits.

Social

• To support and coordinate volunteering and fundraising activities, helping to grow the impact of these activities and capture the impact through the collation of social data.
• To support and coordinate the charity champions network across the business.
• To coordinate and support the delivery of the various Skills, Education and Outreach programmes that deliver our strategic cross-departmental Classroom to Careers programme.
• To coordinate all cash donations across the airport as well as continuously exploring new ways to increase donations.

Governance

• To support Environment, Social, and Governance reporting, collating and coordinating data collection to support internal and external data submissions, including to our shareholders.
• Lead the monthly data reporting tasks such as board dashboard, waste engagement posters and other regular reporting items, supporting the governance team.
• To support carbon footprinting analysis and coordinating the process for our continued ESG accreditations process ensuring these are delivered on time for submission.
• Self-motivated and proactive team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and literacy skills. Good numeracy skills and data interpretation
• An accurate individual, self-checking to ensure precise and correct information is produced as well as the ability to work independently
• The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, as well as under pressure and to deadlines
• An organised approach to managing themselves and their work, in order to meet deadlines with excellent administration skills
• Experience working in a fast-changing environment, delivering successful projects and events with the ability to prioritise
• An interest in Sustainability and the future of aviation, including the role an airport plays within the industry and within our community & economy.
• Drive and curiosity to bring new ideas to the team with a willingness to learn.
• Experience using various Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to manage data and files.
• Working in supporting/admin or coordinator/charity sector roles.

This job description is intended to give an appreciation of the role and the range of duties and responsibilities to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific task and objectives will be agreed on an on-going basis. The post holder will be required at all times to perform any other reasonable tasks, as requested by the Line Manager in order to meet the operational needs of the business.

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LLA is committed to fostering, promoting and preserving a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion, as we carry out our mission. We will always be respectful and seek to learn from those different from ourselves. We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee has a negative experience for being who they are. We welcome all applications!