Role – Sustainability Coordinator
Salary – Up to 28K (DOE)
Location- Southport, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton/ Hybrid
Purpose of the role
To support the delivery of our Responsible Business plan by leading the sustainability elements of our agenda whilst fostering a positive culture of sustainability and compliance with our responsibilities as a business.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible Business Strategy: Supporting the Responsible Business Manager with the delivery of the sustainability aspects of the business-wide Responsible Business strategy.
- Net Zero and Sustainability Strategy: Lead on the delivery of our strategy, focusing on energy, transport, recycling, food waste, and supplier data analysis to execute our Net Zero and Sustainability strategy.
- Carbon Footprint Management: Calculate and track carbon footprint scopes 1-2-3, working towards achieving our Net-Zero target.
- Data Collection and Tracking: Collaborate with various departments to collect and monitor data related to recycling, food waste, energy, transport, and carbon on a monthly basis.
- ESOS compliance: Supporting the Responsible Business Manager with the data collection needed for the UK Government’s ESOS compliance.
- Engagement: Engage teams across the business with our sustainability agenda and key objectives, such as our facilities team, Mergers and acquisitions and heads of offices.
- Develop and deliver training and upskilling: This is for internal teams on key topics and processes, around sustainability and embedding it in our culture.
- Stakeholder’s ESG Compliance: Work closely with Responsible Business and Contracts teams to ensure that our suppliers complete ESG assessments, ensuring they align with our business practices.
- Interdepartmental Communication and Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with teams (specifically operational teams) and minute our sustainability committee to ensure alignment and collaboration across the business.
- Project Management: Manage and implement projects throughout the organisation to reduce our carbon, water, energy, waste, and food waste footprint.
- External partnerships: Build relationships with key stakeholders and partners outside the business.
- Drive Awareness: Promote and raise awareness across the organisation about the impact of emerging environmental issues.
- Social Value: Support the Responsible Business Manager to create a measurement framework.
- Reporting: Monitoring Responsible Business activity and initiatives across all projects to report on business-wide impact.
- Marketing: Working with the Responsible Business & Marketing teams, you will ensure that our impact is communicated to both internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications, Skills And Experience
- Excellent project management and planning skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Competent in data collection and analysis, ideally gained with sustainability reporting and tracking key sustainability metrics.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to motivate, inspire others and work collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Some experience of working in sustainability (previous experience with ISO and BCorp would be ideal).
- Passionate about sustainability and able to champion sustainability enthusiastically across our business.
- Confident to challenge the way things are done and to work with people at all levels of the organisation.
- Adaptable and able to manage changes to working practices and priorities in a fast-paced, professional services working environment.
We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.
About Fletchers Group
Fletchers is a fast-growing, dynamic law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law, with outstanding rankings in both
The Legal 500 and
Chambers & Partners. Following several strategic acquisitions, we’ve evolved into the Fletchers Group, with ambitious plans for continued growth and innovation.
We work across England, with offices currently in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, Southport, Newcastle, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton and Cambridge. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.
We aspire to be the best place to work in the legal sector.
Our workplace culture is inclusive, informal, and supportive, with a strong focus on colleague wellbeing and happiness. We are proud to offer some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in the industry — because we understand that balance drives performance.
At Fletchers, we also value connection and collaboration. We create exciting opportunities for teams to come together and thrive. Whether you’re starting your career or aiming for leadership, you’ll find a clear path to progress and development here — from apprenticeships and professional qualifications to senior roles and Partnership.
We seek out a broad range of challenging, high-quality legal work, enabling our people to build meaningful and progressive careers. And we don’t just talk about development — we invest in it, with a significant proportion of our colleagues working towards relevant qualifications at any given time.
We reward those who help build our success and live our values. Our benefits package is designed to grow with you, offering real opportunities to share in our long-term strength. Our base pay and bonus structure is built to recognise and reward high performance.
Join us and be part of a law firm that’s not only growing, but redefining what it means to work in legal services.
Fletchers Group is an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce: we welcome applications from any and all backgrounds. We’re committed to providing a culture and environment where everyone can thrive, understanding and celebrating that no colleague is the same. We’re proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme, and we are signing up to other diversity standards to reflect our ethos.
