Career Details

Based at Norwich Airport with travel required to Bournemouth & Exeter Airports.

THE ROLE

Regional & City Airports (RCA) is a leading UK regional airport operator. RCA owns and operates Bournemouth, Coventry, Exeter and Norwich Airports, and holds a management contract for Solent Airport.  RCA also owns and operates XLR Executive Jet Centres, a fixed base operator (FBO) with a portfolio of four luxury private jet centres at Birmingham, Liverpool, Bournemouth and Exeter Airports. With its expertise, RCA also carries out consultancy assignments at other airports and airfields.

RCA is growing rapidly and ensuring growth is sustainable and compliant is a core component of the group’s strategy. This newly created role will be the focal point responsible for leading the group’s sustainability initiatives and assurance activities, consolidating and coordinating the group’s efforts to deliver progress.

The role reports to the RCA Exec sustainability lead. The role has no direct reports but will work collaboratively with sustainability leads and wider operational teams across the group to deliver a coordinated group response. The role will also form part of Norwich Airport’s management team, delivering hands on sustainability and assurance support directly into that organisation.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Leading the group’s work on decarbonisation and relevant strategy development
  • The development and delivery of the Group’s Sustainability Plan, including the net zero 2040 roadmap including a carbon reduction plan with SMART objectives.
  • Progressing the Airport Carbon Accreditation scheme beyond Level 2
  • Responsible for Carbon Action Management Plan(s) and reporting.
  • Coordinating to ensure best practice on noise, air quality, wastewater, waste, remediation projects, energy management and procurement and recycling
  • Climate adaptation and resilience
  • Engaging with Sustainable Aviation and representing the group in relevant industry and government fora
  • Identifying and developing projects to position RCA as a leader in efforts to transition regional aviation to new technology, working with third party partners as required
  • Oversight and implementation of Airport Surface Access Strategies and representing RCA and Airport Transport Forum at each airport.
• ESG and assurance
  • Developing the strategic ESG framework setting out sustainable development goals
  • Embedding a culture of engagement with the framework across the group including integration of ESG thinking into business planning cycles, working closely with HR and operational teams
  • Ensuring regulatory compliance with ESG reporting requirements
  • Coordinating community impact engagement to ensure alignment of effort and output
  • Creating and maintaining a central record of all group initiatives, policies and procedures
  • Ensure compliance with International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for Sustainable Aviation fuel where applicable
  • Ensuring an ethical supply chain so far as is reasonably practicable
• Coordination, Reporting and Continuous improvement
  • Coordinating the group ESG committee and sub groups
  • Establishing monitoring, audit and reporting systems internally and dashboard development, including external benchmarking
  • Development and delivery of the group’s annual Sustainability Report
  • Developing the communication of the group’s work through other means
• As part of the Norwich Airport management team
  • Developing and implementing sustainability and ESG initiatives in line with group practices
  • Supporting and maintaining ISO accreditations at Norwich Airport

Further information can be found on the Job Description link below.

If you are interested and would like to apply for the role, please take a look at the Job Description, then forward your CV to our HR Team via email by clicking the link here.

Closing date for applications: 31st May 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

All prospective employees are required to produce documents to verify their entitlement to work in this country to comply with the Immigration Act, 2016. In addition, all foreign nationals are required to provide appropriate evidence of eligibility to work in the U.K. i.e., a work permit / visa, where applicable. The original of these must be produced at the interview stage.

Norwich Airport is an Equal Opportunities Employer