Centre Coordinator: Centre for Sustainable Fashion

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The opportunity

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) seeks a highly skilled Centre Coordinator. This is a key role at CSF, providing a professional, high quality service, in supporting and advising across the CSF Team to ensure good practice is upheld and effective and inclusive working environments are maintained.

As the Centre Coordinator, you will be the first point of contact for CSF for internal and external queries and relationships, will work well independently as well as part of the team and will be responsible to ensure an efficient operational and administrative service is in place across the team and University policy and procedures are complied with.

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a University of the Arts London research, education and knowledge exchange centre, based at London College of Fashion. CSF provokes, challenges, and questions the status quo in fashion to contribute to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity. The Centre’s work shapes and contributes to Fashion Design for Sustainability as a field of study, industry practices and educational models.  By exploring and cross-referencing fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas, CSF engages in transformational design practices.  

CSF takes a pluralistic, systemic approach, collaborating across its network of universities, businesses and other organisations from all around the world.  

About you

You will be comfortable with problem solving, working on multiple tasks simultaneously, at pace, while having a keen eye for detail. You will have great leadership skills demonstrated by your ability to motivate and nurture a team, and fostering constructive cross-team collaboration. With strong IT skills and expertise in MS Word/Outlook/Excel/Powerpoint and Adobe, you will be able to communicate efficiently and create presentations to a diverse audience in an inclusive and accessible way. Strong finance and budget monitoring experience is essential and knowledge and use of Agresso (ABW) desirable.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

Our culture

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to be members of the Race Equality Charter (REC) and Business Disability Forum, are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed and Living Wage employer and maintain our status as a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

We understand the benefits of using AI in work. But, if you are thinking of using it to submit an application, we ask you to think about what value it adds. AI tools tend to lack the personal touch and authenticity we value in candidates. We encourage you to showcase your unique knowledge and skills using your own voice.

If we receive a high volume of applications, the closing day date might close early. We aim to communicate any changes to the closing date with at least 24 hours’ notice. If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please refer to our Contact us page.

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