Sustainability Coordinator

We are looking for a Sustainability Coordinator to join the Frontier team, based at Witham St Hughs on a full-time permanent basis. We are open to hybrid options for this role, with the right candidate working 3 days from home and 2 days on site. Travelling to other Frontier sites and event venues across the UK will be required at times.

You will support the facilitation and delivery of private sector funding initiatives. You will build excellent customer relationships, and provide advice and administrative support to colleagues, farmers, and supply chain partners to ensure successful implementation at both the farm gate and landscape scale.

Private funding projects you will support include the European based LENs programme and Frontier sustainability partnerships, which work in conjunction with global supply chain funding partners.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for a mixture of home and site working (to be agreed with Line Manager)
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Excellent organisational skills, including prioritising workloads, meeting deadlines, and managing a varied workload in a busy environment
• The ability to communicate with impact at every level
• Demonstrate problem-solving ability
• Good attention to detail
• Intermediate level understanding of Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Able to develop effective and supportive relationships with customers
• Self-motivated and tenacious
• Flexible approach to work and managing changing priorities
• An effective team player
• Solution focused
• Previous field agronomy or agricultural experience is desirable but not essential

Your Role

As a Sustainability Coordinator your role will involve:

• Working both on your own and within the Sustainable Crop Production Delivery (SCPD) team to support the implementation of private sector funding programmes.
• Collaborating across all Frontier business sectors to ensure effective outcomes for growers and the revenue earning opportunities for the wider business with specific focus on delivering unified Kings, SOYL, My Compliance and SCPD approach on farm.
• Supporting Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) regional leads in the facilitation of LENs regional trades
• Supporting practical delivery of LENS to include communications with growers and reporting as well as maximising the commercial opportunities from the funding.
• Communicating with Growers on monitoring, recording and verification requirements and timelines.
• Working with regional leads to deliver communication surrounding farmer funding.
• Working with the Sustainability Project Manager to review & continuously improve the systems and processes used to collect and collate data.
• Administration and record keeping in team meetings.
• Helping organise and participate in events such as farmer knowledge exchange events.
• Administration and organisational support of sustainability related workshops and training days.
• Supporting the wider SCP team in the collation of farmer information in line with other sustainability partnership programmes.
• Working with the Sustainability Project Manager to ensure necessary tools for data collection and collation are kept relevant and effective.
• Promoting and advocating the Responsible Choice pillars and activity at all levels.

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.

With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise or ICE. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.

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