Waste & Recycling Advisors x6

Waste & Recycling Advisors (Newham, London)

Salary: £13.15 per hour (London Living Wage)

Plus a £13.15 shift allowance for every 7.5 hour complete shift worked
(equivalent to an extra £1.75 per hour) and an additional £100 for completing 20 shifts (a
maximum of £200 for the project length)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, worked at 7.5 paid hours per day from 11am to 7pm
over 5 days from Tuesday to Saturday (with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break)

Part time positions will be considered with a minimum three day a week
commitment

Contract: Casual Contract due to finish on 22nd October 2024

Location: Mobile, anywhere within the boundary of the London Borough of Newham

Keep Britain Tidy is working with the London Borough of Newham to engage its residents with
recent changes to its waste and recycling service. The Waste & Recycling Advisors will
engage residents on the doorstep to make sure they understand the service changes.

Waste & Recycling Advisors will work in pairs and will cover streets across the borough
each day on foot.

Responsibilities include:

• Engaging with residents about their waste and recycling service, using reference resources
  where appropriate (provided by the council).
• Recording resident responses into a bespoke form using data collection software on a
  touchscreen tablet (provided by the council) and submitting this to the council.

Subject to successful interview there will be two mandatory days of paid training and
applicants must be available to attend all training days.

The successful applicants will have an interest in and understanding of the environmental and
waste sectors, and the ability and willingness to undertake work in an outdoor environment.

This position will provide sought-after experience for someone looking for a career in the
environmental sector, especially the waste and recycling industry, and is paid at the London
Living Wage. In joining this project you also have the opportunity of joining our Bank of
Casual Workers, through which further employment may be available at the end of this contract.

Full training will be provided.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy
of the full job
description.

After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us and apply, you
will need to answer 3 questions, submit your CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring
information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the
population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be
held separately. Please submit your application here.

Deadline for applications: 12th September 2024. We reserve the right to close this
vacancy early if sufficient applications have been received

Video interviews: On a rolling basis

Start date: 24th September 2024

Anticipated end date: 22nd October 2024

Generally, interviews take place via Microsoft Teams. However, we understand that this is more
challenging for some people so if you would prefer an in-person interview for any reason,
please just let us know.

We are proud to be an inclusive and flexible employer. We particularly welcome applications
from all sectors of the community including under-represented groups in the charity sector.

No agencies please.

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roles that we advertise.