Earth Fellow Forest and peatland net zero travel officer
Earth Fellow Forest and peatland net zero travel officer
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UE07:per Annum pro rata 22.19 26.38 per hour)
Edinburgh Earth Initiative Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Part Time 9 hours per week
Fixedterm for nine months from June 2025
The Forest and Peatland programme and Edinburgh Earth Initiative are looking for a PhD student to contribute to a project on net zero travel. This 9month project aims to develop local businesses to deliver a net zero transport provision to Forest and Peatland programme sites.
This post will be appointed at Grade UE07 step 1 which is 40497 per annum pro rata 22.19 per hour).
Earth Fellowships are only open to current postgraduate and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. Please do not apply if you are not a current University of Edinburgh student.
Your skills and attributes for success:
Current University of Edinburgh PhD student in the academic year 24/25 and who will continue to be matriculated in the 25/26 academic year.
An interest in sustainablebusiness related research.
Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly both in writing and in oral presentations.
Ability to assimilate information from multiple sources and use statistical models and forecasting techniques to predict future consumption based on identified variables (demand size of market seasonality market trends).
Ability to work proactively with colleagues and external collaborators with a variety of expertise; understanding and valuing different points of view and building consensus.
Ability to investigate collate and analyse information to provide dependable business information for recommendations on future net zero (electric) local transport options for forest and peatland naturebased learning.
As an Earth Fellow you will be joining a diverse fun and dynamic team of researchers students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme you will have access to coworking space exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.
Earth Fellows work on individual and teambased projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiatives work on climate change researchled impact innovation engagement and teaching.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes undergraduate postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community academics professional services and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support nurture your talent and reward success.
You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits which includes a generous holiday entitlement a defined benefits pension scheme staff discounts familyfriendly initiatives flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on ourright to work webpages(opens new browser tab.
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 12 May 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held during late May.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Part-Time
