Sustainable Business Practitioner

Role: Facilitating Resource Matching | circularity in

Closing Date: Friday 16th May at 5:00pm

About the company

International Synergies NI Ltd. have been delivering the world’s longest running zero waste program in NI for almost 20 years.

By valorising waste, creating new business markets, kick starting innovation, and delivering carbon reduction, they ultimately save business costs through industrial symbiosis – keeping resources in use for longer.

This Circular Economy approach reduces business carbon emissions up to 80% (Scope 3 upstream and downstream of the value chain) to help them meet their sustainability and ESG commitments.

Funded through the UK Government, this provides economic, social and environmental benefits.

Job Introduction

Do you want to be part of the low carbon green economy?

There is an exciting opportunity to join the team to deliver resource matching across NI.

To learn more about the project, visit: https://international-synergies.com/project/resource-matching-northern-ireland/

We require a high-performing business-facing practitioner to work across business sectors to find creative solutions to otherwise wasted resources.

You will be required to help businesses:

· Identify opportunities for reducing or re-purposing waste streams

· Support them in purchasing more sustainable products through their supply chain

· Reduce operational costs and overheads

· Understand jargon related to Carbon Footprinting and Net Zero targets

· Match them with other businesses who can utilise their resources

· Communicate any matches made back to you for reporting

Main Responsibilities

· Set up and meet with businesses across NI

· Gather information on what businesses are purchasing & wasting

· Identify new businesses to onboard to the program

· Present on behalf of ISL at regional events and conferences

· Use ISL’s synergy matching database to identify re-use with companies registered

· Introduce companies to one another to facilitate and harvest sharing of resources

· Use ISL software to report matches made

· Attend weekly online meetings & in-person meetings in Belfast as needed

· Work collectively across ISL team to achieve annual targets

· Use MS applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) for recording & reporting purposes

· Attend weekly online meetings and regular in-person meetings in Belfast

· Establish and maintain open and friendly business relationships

· Facilitate at workshops and issue follow up reports to delegates

· Use digital tools to maximise resource matching as and when needed

· Self-manage project work, pipeline, and timely delivery against agreed personal targets

The Ideal Candidate will:

· Have experience of business engagement & customer relations

· Hold relevant engineering, energy, or environmental skills & experience

· Ideally hold a third level academic qualification

· Knowledge of or previous interaction with the resource matching service

· Have knowledge of the circular economy, waste policy & regulations

· Identifying new possibilities for material reuse by another organisation

· Have experience of onsite reuse (recovery, repair and restore) practices

· Have a passion for helping businesses reduce carbon and costs

· Be friendly, approachable and a good networker

· Have access to transport to visit organisations across NI

· Be well-versed in environmental and climate change drivers for business

· Undertake training & development in sustainability