Knowledge Exchange Officer (Sustainability)

The opportunity

Centre for Sustainable Fashion is seeking to appoint an outstanding Knowledge Exchange Officer (Sustainability) to provide administrative and project support to the CSF Knowledge Exchange team.

Based at London College of Fashion (LCF), Centre for Sustainable Fashion provokes, challenges, and questions the status quo in fashion; contributing to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity. We engage in transformation design, cross-referencing fashion’s ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas.
 
Within the Knowledge Exchange team, we engage in participatory practice with businesses, NGOs, government agencies and other organisations. Our projects create culture and practice change through workshops, mentoring, design practice, insight reports and contract research.

About you

Candidates should have strong experience of planning and managing resources, including diary management, project support, events and workshops. You will have experience of working independently without direct supervision, planning and priorisiting your work to achieve individual and team objectives. 

We are seeking strong communicators, who feel comfortable working closely with industry stakeholders and have experience of producing presentations, written and visual communication outputs. Candidates should be skilled disseminating information to diverse audiences, with a good understanding of fashion and sustainability terms and concepts.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can bring exceptional administrative skills to the role, alongside fashion and sustainability experience in industry contexts.

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

▪ at least 31 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays.

▪ equal parental leave offering up to 6 months full pay for maternity and paternity.

▪ 2 days of paid volunteering leave for a UK registered charity.

▪ generous defined benefit pension schemes (LGPS/TPS}.

▪ discounts including gyms, nursery and private healthcare insurance.

▪ learning and development opportunities including free Short Courses.

▪ season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, free counselling and more!

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world. 

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.