GLL is looking for a part time Sustainability Assistant (20hrs p/w) to work within the Sustainability Team at its Head Office based in Woolwich, Southeast London as part of the National Standards and Compliance Department. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as Sustainability Assistant, there's never been a more exciting time to be a member of the team.
The Sustainability Assistant will be a key part of the team supporting in the delivery of GLL’s Sustainability Strategy and promoting its “Respecting the Planet” Value. The post holder will be primarily responsible for the administration of utility invoicing, recording of energy consumption and account management with utility suppliers and procurement partners. Reporting to the National Sustainability Manager, you will use your knowledge to support the Leisure, Library and Children’s Centre teams with utility account information, energy and water data and wider sustainability queries
This is more than a Sustainability Assistant job, it's a career.
What you’ll do
- Work with GLL utility suppliers and partners (SEFE / Smartest Energy / SE First / Stark etc) to ensure consistent and accurate utility billing and to ensure account issues are resolved.
- Support the Sustainability officer with regular energy and water data analysis and reporting to help achieve GLL’s sustainability goals.
- Work closely with Sustainability team colleagues to support with Sustainability Strategy objectives and targets.
- Maintain accurate utility consumption records on existing databases.
- Processing of monthly supplier invoices, consolidated billing runs and utility recharges.
- Assist with utility account query resolution, processing of premises meter reads and supplier relationships.
- Continued liaison between utility suppliers and the GLL finance management team to resolve P&L and billing queries.
- Assist with GLL Partners and their sustainability teams where necessary to provide relevant carbon and utility data to support their objectives.
As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.
What you need
- Experience of working in an administrative support, finance assistant or account management role required.
- Proficient use of various GLL Utility platforms and portals (e.g. STARK / SE First / Systems Link) or similar external portals/platforms.
- Experience of Microsoft 365 suite (e.g. Excel, SharePoint) , specifically Excel.
- The ability to deliver to deadlines.
- The ability to deliver a high quality service with minimum supervision.
- The ability to work as part of a team.
- Good written and verbal communication skills and excellent IT literacy.
- Numerically minded and confident working within data processing, account management or administration environment.
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics
- This is a 20 hours part time permanent position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role.
- We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay
- We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available.
- A uniform will be supplied and must be worn
- GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
- As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and t have a stake in your business
Benefits
- Access to a pension scheme.
- Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
- Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
- Free annual eye tests
- Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
- The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
- Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
- Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet
About GLL
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
- A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
- A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.
To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.
