Manager, Climate & Sustainability Engagement
Apply NowCompany: The University of British Columbia
Location: Vancouver, BC V5K 5J9
Description:
Staff - Non Union
Job Category
M&P - AAPS
Job Profile
AAPS Salaried - Administration, Level C
Job Title
Manager, Climate & Sustainability Engagement
Department
Manager | Sustainability and Engineering | Program Support
Compensation Range
$7,622.83 - $11,886.67 CAD Monthly
The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.
Posting End Date
April 30, 2025
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Summary
Campus and Community Planning (C&CP) works collaboratively to create a vibrant and resilient campus for an engaged community on the traditional territory of the Musqueam people, taking a leading-edge approach to sustainability, engagement, community building, planning, design and development. C&CP is responsible for leading UBC's operational sustainability plans that set UBC's targets and actions for climate, transportation, waste and water, using UBC as a living lab for a sustainable future. These major plans for the UBC campus are endorsed by the UBC Board of Governors and have connections to many other UBC plans and strategies, including UBC's Strategic Plan, 20-Year Sustainability Strategy, Inclusion Action Plan, Wellbeing Strategic Framework, and the UBC Climate Emergency Response, among others. C&CP collaborates and coordinates with many UBC partners, departments and units to advance and embed these goals across the university, including senior staff and leadership from UBC Financial Operations, the UBC Sustainability Initiative, Student Housing and Community Services, Safety and Risk Services, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, Alma Mater Society, Building Operations, Energy and Water Services, the Centre for Student Involvement & Careers, UBC IT, and other units in C&CP and across UBC Okanagan. Strategic systems-wide campus engagement and outreach is a key component of delivering on these critical sustainability and climate targets and commitments.
The Manager, Climate & Sustainability Engagement leads the strategic planning, development, and oversight of C&CP's campus-wide engagement programs, initiatives, campaigns, strategies and other outreach that address UBC's ambitious goals and targets for climate action and sustainability. These programs facilitate the creation of a culture of sustainability on campus; encourage adoption of high impact carbon reduction and resource conservation behaviours amongst staff, faculty and students; and directly support implementation of UBC's campus-wide sustainability plans and policies, including the Climate Action Plan, Zero Waste Action Plan, Transportation Plan, and Engagement Strategy.
The position responsibilities include strategic planning, coordination and facilitating implementation of engagement and outreach programs that will play a key role in achieving the targets of UBC's new Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP2030), a major priority area of the university's Climate Emergency Response. CAP2030 will have significantly expanded impact relative to previous plans, including accelerated GHG reduction targets for campus operations, and expansion of targets to include "extended impacts emissions" areas outside of core UBC operations. These extended impact emissions sources include business air travel, commuting, food and waste (which also incorporates procurement and reuse). Engagement programs are critical to address these extended impact areas, as reducing these emissions is dependent on staff, faculty and students' actions and choices. The position also plays an important role in campus-wide communications related to the Climate Emergency and CAP2030, through collaborations with communications staff in C&CP and other departments.
The position is responsible for overseeing, creating new and developing updates to Campus & Community Planning sustainability and climate engagement programs, including those within the Workplace Sustainability portfolio (e.g. Sustainability Coordinator and Sustainable Offices), Zero Waste portfolio, and student engagement portfolio, that address UBC's strategic priorities, sustainability and climate goals across campus through staff, faculty and student engagement. The position plays an important role in guiding and supporting the Green Labs program, Sustainability in Residence and other engagement programming within Student Housing and Community Services, Zero Waste/Sort it Out, and several substantial emerging programs led or co-led by C&CP with community climate action and carbon reduction behavioural/social change components. Working with stakeholders across UBC, key elements of the role include supporting and facilitating capacity building in departments, units, residence halls, and UBC other communities, and expanding UBC's network of sustainability champions.
The Manager supervises both staff and student positions that support engagement program delivery and engagement-specific communications activities through event and recruitment activity coordination/staffing; development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous learning and training modules, workshops and webinars, materials, tools and toolkits; creation of such outreach as eNewsletters, social media posts, webpages and other digital content; data and metrics collection and analysis, and other program administration tasks.
Organizational Status
Operates within Campus and Community Planning. Reports to the Senior Planning & Sustainability Engineer in Sustainability & Engineering (S&E), within Campus & Community Planning (C&CP). Key collaborators include the C&CP Manager of Public Engagement and the Manager of Communications, and the UBC Sustainability Initiative. The position may supervise at least one full time support staff, as well as one or more student interns. Coordinates with senior staff from UBC Financial Operations, UBC IT, Student Housing and Community Services, Safety and Risk Services, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, Alma Mater Society, Building Operations, Energy and Water Services, Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, and other units in C&CP and across UBCO.
Work Performed
1. In collaboration with key stakeholders across campus, lead and coordinate new and emerging CAP2030 engagement and outreach programming, initiatives and campaigns, including overall strategic planning, stakeholder coordination and alignment, coordination of tracking and reporting of engagement metrics, and engagement and outreach-specific communications components (the latter in coordination with C&CP communications staff).
2. Work with key stakeholders in other units university-wide to help build climate and sustainability engagement program capacity, supporting and guiding development of emerging engagement programs including business air travel emissions, sustainable transportation, climate friendly food, and sustainable procurement. This includes collaborating with new CAP2030-related program coordination positions in C&CP and other departments, such as the Sustainable Travel Coordinator position in Financial Operations, new sustainable procurement role(s) in Financial Operations, new Climate Emergency position(s) in the University Sustainability Initiative, and other sustainability and climate related roles in Student Housing and Community Services, Alma Mater Society, Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, Climate Hub, and key partners on student-focused initiatives.
3. Develop and oversee implementation of the Sustainable Campus Program that will help build capacity for sustainability and climate action within units and communities (offices, laboratories, student clubs, etc.) across campus.
4. Manage engagement program support staff (one FTE pending budget availability) and student staff who will support engagement program delivery; provide project management direction to reach program goals, training, performance reviews and mentorship.
5. Oversee the operational sustainability and climate action engagement programs portfolio, including the Sustainable Offices/Labs Program and Sustainability Coordinator Program, and in collaboration with USI and other partners, the New Student Orientations Sustainability Integration and Outreach Program and the Sustainable Student Clubs and Groups Program, including:
6. Supported by program staff, collaborators and consultants, manage the development of campus-wide strategies, tools and resources to support sustainability and climate engagement and build capacity within staff, faculty and students across the UBC ecosystem. These include training and educational materials, web-based toolkits and others.
7. Play a key role in the planning, development and updating of communications and outreach plans and materials related to sustainability and climate programming at UBC, including collaboration with:
8. Design and manage behaviour change campaigns, engagement and outreach with internal and external partners for staff, faculty, students and program participants to address UBC's priority climate and sustainability goals, including reviewing and researching engagement and behaviour change best practices, liaising with other institutions, and incorporating best practices into program design and management.
9. Manage the Workplace Sustainability Fund, and identify and develop other UBC community sustainability and climate action funding mechanisms as needed, including developing and refining fund guidelines and criteria, coordinating the fund selection process and overseeing successful funding recipients to ensure long term project success.
10. Provide support and guidance to UBC Okanagan staff related to emerging and evolving climate and sustainability engagement.
Performs other duties as required.
Consequence of Error/Judgement
Decisions affect the delivery of high impact, campus-wide engagement and outreach programs and initiatives that support achievement of UBC's strategic climate and sustainability priorities, goals and targets, and potentially significant cost savings. Decisions can impact UBC's leadership and reputation on climate and sustainability.
Supervision Received
Works independently on projects under the supervision of the Senior Planning & Sustainability Engineer. Work is reviewed against work plan objectives.
Supervision Given
Supervise consultants on a project basis. Directs and advises department staff, as required. Supervise the engagement program support staff position and student staff (including Work Learn positions).
Qualifications
- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own
- Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one's own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion
Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Master's degree in a related discipline preferred. Minimum of five years' experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in community based social marketing and change management practices and theories. Demonstrated experience in strategic plan development, program management and program development is required and experience in and volunteer management is preferred. Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, interpersonal and organizational skills are assets, as is knowledge and experience of communications and engagement strategies such as email marketing, web content management, social media and desktop publishing. Relationship building and working with diverse stakeholders, in many cases senior managers, on program planning and capacity building is essential. Ability to listen, learn, help and lead staff and stakeholders towards a common goal is essential. Experience in project and budget management is required, as is supervising and working with staff and consultants. Ability to cope with multiple priorities, exercise good judgment and set strategic priorities is required. Ability to work efficiently and independently within a team environment and make informed decisions without supervision is required. Creativity, tactfulness, perceptivity, attention to detail and versatility are important attributes.
Job Category
M&P - AAPS
Job Profile
AAPS Salaried - Administration, Level C
Job Title
Manager, Climate & Sustainability Engagement
Department
Manager | Sustainability and Engineering | Program Support
Compensation Range
$7,622.83 - $11,886.67 CAD Monthly
The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.
Posting End Date
April 30, 2025
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Summary
Campus and Community Planning (C&CP) works collaboratively to create a vibrant and resilient campus for an engaged community on the traditional territory of the Musqueam people, taking a leading-edge approach to sustainability, engagement, community building, planning, design and development. C&CP is responsible for leading UBC's operational sustainability plans that set UBC's targets and actions for climate, transportation, waste and water, using UBC as a living lab for a sustainable future. These major plans for the UBC campus are endorsed by the UBC Board of Governors and have connections to many other UBC plans and strategies, including UBC's Strategic Plan, 20-Year Sustainability Strategy, Inclusion Action Plan, Wellbeing Strategic Framework, and the UBC Climate Emergency Response, among others. C&CP collaborates and coordinates with many UBC partners, departments and units to advance and embed these goals across the university, including senior staff and leadership from UBC Financial Operations, the UBC Sustainability Initiative, Student Housing and Community Services, Safety and Risk Services, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, Alma Mater Society, Building Operations, Energy and Water Services, the Centre for Student Involvement & Careers, UBC IT, and other units in C&CP and across UBC Okanagan. Strategic systems-wide campus engagement and outreach is a key component of delivering on these critical sustainability and climate targets and commitments.
The Manager, Climate & Sustainability Engagement leads the strategic planning, development, and oversight of C&CP's campus-wide engagement programs, initiatives, campaigns, strategies and other outreach that address UBC's ambitious goals and targets for climate action and sustainability. These programs facilitate the creation of a culture of sustainability on campus; encourage adoption of high impact carbon reduction and resource conservation behaviours amongst staff, faculty and students; and directly support implementation of UBC's campus-wide sustainability plans and policies, including the Climate Action Plan, Zero Waste Action Plan, Transportation Plan, and Engagement Strategy.
The position responsibilities include strategic planning, coordination and facilitating implementation of engagement and outreach programs that will play a key role in achieving the targets of UBC's new Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP2030), a major priority area of the university's Climate Emergency Response. CAP2030 will have significantly expanded impact relative to previous plans, including accelerated GHG reduction targets for campus operations, and expansion of targets to include "extended impacts emissions" areas outside of core UBC operations. These extended impact emissions sources include business air travel, commuting, food and waste (which also incorporates procurement and reuse). Engagement programs are critical to address these extended impact areas, as reducing these emissions is dependent on staff, faculty and students' actions and choices. The position also plays an important role in campus-wide communications related to the Climate Emergency and CAP2030, through collaborations with communications staff in C&CP and other departments.
The position is responsible for overseeing, creating new and developing updates to Campus & Community Planning sustainability and climate engagement programs, including those within the Workplace Sustainability portfolio (e.g. Sustainability Coordinator and Sustainable Offices), Zero Waste portfolio, and student engagement portfolio, that address UBC's strategic priorities, sustainability and climate goals across campus through staff, faculty and student engagement. The position plays an important role in guiding and supporting the Green Labs program, Sustainability in Residence and other engagement programming within Student Housing and Community Services, Zero Waste/Sort it Out, and several substantial emerging programs led or co-led by C&CP with community climate action and carbon reduction behavioural/social change components. Working with stakeholders across UBC, key elements of the role include supporting and facilitating capacity building in departments, units, residence halls, and UBC other communities, and expanding UBC's network of sustainability champions.
The Manager supervises both staff and student positions that support engagement program delivery and engagement-specific communications activities through event and recruitment activity coordination/staffing; development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous learning and training modules, workshops and webinars, materials, tools and toolkits; creation of such outreach as eNewsletters, social media posts, webpages and other digital content; data and metrics collection and analysis, and other program administration tasks.
Organizational Status
Operates within Campus and Community Planning. Reports to the Senior Planning & Sustainability Engineer in Sustainability & Engineering (S&E), within Campus & Community Planning (C&CP). Key collaborators include the C&CP Manager of Public Engagement and the Manager of Communications, and the UBC Sustainability Initiative. The position may supervise at least one full time support staff, as well as one or more student interns. Coordinates with senior staff from UBC Financial Operations, UBC IT, Student Housing and Community Services, Safety and Risk Services, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, Alma Mater Society, Building Operations, Energy and Water Services, Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, and other units in C&CP and across UBCO.
Work Performed
1. In collaboration with key stakeholders across campus, lead and coordinate new and emerging CAP2030 engagement and outreach programming, initiatives and campaigns, including overall strategic planning, stakeholder coordination and alignment, coordination of tracking and reporting of engagement metrics, and engagement and outreach-specific communications components (the latter in coordination with C&CP communications staff).
2. Work with key stakeholders in other units university-wide to help build climate and sustainability engagement program capacity, supporting and guiding development of emerging engagement programs including business air travel emissions, sustainable transportation, climate friendly food, and sustainable procurement. This includes collaborating with new CAP2030-related program coordination positions in C&CP and other departments, such as the Sustainable Travel Coordinator position in Financial Operations, new sustainable procurement role(s) in Financial Operations, new Climate Emergency position(s) in the University Sustainability Initiative, and other sustainability and climate related roles in Student Housing and Community Services, Alma Mater Society, Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, Climate Hub, and key partners on student-focused initiatives.
3. Develop and oversee implementation of the Sustainable Campus Program that will help build capacity for sustainability and climate action within units and communities (offices, laboratories, student clubs, etc.) across campus.
4. Manage engagement program support staff (one FTE pending budget availability) and student staff who will support engagement program delivery; provide project management direction to reach program goals, training, performance reviews and mentorship.
5. Oversee the operational sustainability and climate action engagement programs portfolio, including the Sustainable Offices/Labs Program and Sustainability Coordinator Program, and in collaboration with USI and other partners, the New Student Orientations Sustainability Integration and Outreach Program and the Sustainable Student Clubs and Groups Program, including:
- New and ongoing program development where strategic and appropriate; annual reviews and updates; developing milestones, targets and tracking metrics; program-related outreach and communications planning and deployment; and supported by program staff, web presence development and maintenance; program administration; and general/targeted participant programming for capacity building and recruitment.
- Oversee and guide the development and management of the network of staff and faculty sustainability champions including Sustainability Coordinators in offices and other employee units across campus, and the Zero Waste Squad. Supported by program staff, management of this network includes recruitment and orientation; volunteer coordination, retention, and recognition; support, training and advising; developing educational and leadership programming and workshops; and organizing continued networking opportunities.
6. Supported by program staff, collaborators and consultants, manage the development of campus-wide strategies, tools and resources to support sustainability and climate engagement and build capacity within staff, faculty and students across the UBC ecosystem. These include training and educational materials, web-based toolkits and others.
7. Play a key role in the planning, development and updating of communications and outreach plans and materials related to sustainability and climate programming at UBC, including collaboration with:
- C&CP communications staff on the planning.ubc.ca web site and USI on the sustain.ubc.ca web site;
- Communications staff in other units/departments, including UBC Communications and Marketing, on design of both systems-wide and targeted climate and sustainability related communications materials, web content and messaging;
- UBC committees such as the UBC Sustainability and Climate Action Communications and Engagement Working Group, People & Place Committee, Zero Waste Committee, etc. and external peer organizations, to represent Sustainability & Engineering and inform engagement and communications planning.
8. Design and manage behaviour change campaigns, engagement and outreach with internal and external partners for staff, faculty, students and program participants to address UBC's priority climate and sustainability goals, including reviewing and researching engagement and behaviour change best practices, liaising with other institutions, and incorporating best practices into program design and management.
9. Manage the Workplace Sustainability Fund, and identify and develop other UBC community sustainability and climate action funding mechanisms as needed, including developing and refining fund guidelines and criteria, coordinating the fund selection process and overseeing successful funding recipients to ensure long term project success.
10. Provide support and guidance to UBC Okanagan staff related to emerging and evolving climate and sustainability engagement.
Performs other duties as required.
Consequence of Error/Judgement
Decisions affect the delivery of high impact, campus-wide engagement and outreach programs and initiatives that support achievement of UBC's strategic climate and sustainability priorities, goals and targets, and potentially significant cost savings. Decisions can impact UBC's leadership and reputation on climate and sustainability.
Supervision Received
Works independently on projects under the supervision of the Senior Planning & Sustainability Engineer. Work is reviewed against work plan objectives.
Supervision Given
Supervise consultants on a project basis. Directs and advises department staff, as required. Supervise the engagement program support staff position and student staff (including Work Learn positions).
Qualifications
- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own
- Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one's own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion
Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Master's degree in a related discipline preferred. Minimum of five years' experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in community based social marketing and change management practices and theories. Demonstrated experience in strategic plan development, program management and program development is required and experience in and volunteer management is preferred. Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, interpersonal and organizational skills are assets, as is knowledge and experience of communications and engagement strategies such as email marketing, web content management, social media and desktop publishing. Relationship building and working with diverse stakeholders, in many cases senior managers, on program planning and capacity building is essential. Ability to listen, learn, help and lead staff and stakeholders towards a common goal is essential. Experience in project and budget management is required, as is supervising and working with staff and consultants. Ability to cope with multiple priorities, exercise good judgment and set strategic priorities is required. Ability to work efficiently and independently within a team environment and make informed decisions without supervision is required. Creativity, tactfulness, perceptivity, attention to detail and versatility are important attributes.