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) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is home to a diverse body of over 6,000 academic, professional and technical staff who support more than 21,000 students from 130 countries.

The University is made up of 6 renowned Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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