The Assistant Environment Awareness Officer will be a key member of the Environment and Climate team, based within Infrastructure and Climate Change Department and responsible for engaging proactively with relevant directorates and personnel, internal and external. The position may from time to time require work to be conducted/completed outside of normal office hours. The position will involve day-to-day administrative duties. The salary scale for this post will be analogous to the Grade V clerical administrative pay scale The key responsibilities of the post include, but are not limited to:

a. Organisation, promotion and attendance at environmental initiatives for schools including the Green Schools programme, and communities within Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area;

b. Highlighting climate change action and environmental awareness through school visits, meetings with local interest groups and community groups, visits with industry and commercial organisations;

c. Promotion of obligations under the Waste Management Acts, 1996 – 2005 and in particular the Packaging Regulations;

d. Assisting the Environmental Awareness Officer in the promotion of wider climate change, environmental awareness initiatives;

e. Assisting the Environment Awareness Officer with Financial Management, report writing, budgeting and resource allocation;

f. Promotion and provision of information to the public on waste minimisation and recycling initiatives and promoting these initiatives;

g. Assisting the Environmental Awareness Officer in organising and delivering Climate change, environmental awareness campaigns and public relations, including press releases, and media;

h. Attending after-hours environmental functions of the County Council and facilitating and/or liaising with tenants’/residents’ groups and estate management fora, as required and developing and maintaining a working relationship with other agencies or groups;

i. The person appointed will be required to work in co-operation with any agency, organisation or statutory body, as directed by the Environmental Awareness Officer, Senior Executive Officer, Environmental Services or the person delegated by the Senior Executive Officer, in the operation of their duties;

j. Create, manage and design content for the Council's website and social media accounts, to promote the objectives of the role;

k. Promotion and provision of information to the public on waste prevention and recycling initiatives and promoting these initiatives;

l. Supervision of staff.