Coordinator for Sustainability, Fair Trade, and Climate Protection | Koordinator/in (w/m/d) für Nachhaltigkeit, Fairtrade und Klimaschutz.
Stadtverwaltung Stadt Erkrath Personalamt
Job Summary
This role involves coordinating and driving the city's sustainability, Fair Trade, and climate protection initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategically embedding sustainability goals (Agenda 2030/SDGs) into administrative and political processes, including developing monitoring systems for success control and reporting. Key activities include developing sustainable procurement standards, integrating climate-friendly building criteria into planning, leading the Fairtrade-Town recertification process, and fostering inter-municipal cooperation and regional networking. The position requires a completed degree in relevant fields (e.g., Environmental Science or Sustainability Management), strong expertise in climate protection, sustainable procurement law, and project coordination experience. This is an attractive, permanent, full-time position within the public sector, offering flexible working hours and opportunities to significantly impact municipal environmental policy.
Required Skills
Education
Completed university degree (Diploma/Bachelor), preferably in Environmental Sciences, Sustainability Management, Geography, Spatial/Urban Planning, or a comparable discipline
Experience
- Professional experience in project coordination
- Professional experience in public relations
- Professional experience in interdisciplinary collaboration
- Foundational expertise in sustainability and Agenda 2030/SDGs
- Foundational expertise in public contract law and sustainable procurement
- Foundational expertise in fair trade and global justice
- Foundational expertise in environmental and climate protection
Languages
Additional
- Willingness to attend occasional evening and weekend appointments