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Sustainability Manager

Motorsport UK
Organisation
Motorsport UK
Salary
£45,000 - £50,000
Location
Bicester, Oxfordshire
Contract type
Permanent (Full time)
Closing date
9 November 2025
Job Description
Department: Operations


Location: Motorsport UK, Bicester Motion


Hours of Work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week). Core hours are 09:00 until 17:30, Mon – Fri. 4 days on site, 1 remote.


Line Manager: HR & Operations Director


Direct Reports: 3.


Grade: D


Salary: £45,000 - £50,000


Closing date: 9th November 2025


Join Our Team as a Sustainability Manager at Motorsport UK!



Motorsport UK embarked on its sustainability journey in 2021 with the launch of our dedicated strategy. Since then, we have established a specialist sustainability team and made significant progress in laying the foundations for long-term impact. We have successfully mapped our carbon emissions both within the organisation and across the wider sport. To support grassroots efforts, we developed tools such as a carbon calculator to help clubs assess the environmental footprint of their events. Additionally, we’ve worked closely with internal stakeholders, including the Technical team, to integrate sustainable propulsion technologies into the future of motorsport.


The Sustainability Manager will lead these initiatives, ensuring they maintain momentum and receive the cross-organisational support needed to succeed. While the primary focus of this role is environmental sustainability, the postholder will also contribute to our inclusion work (1.5 days per week), supporting the wider team and our consultancy partners in delivering Motorsport UK’s inclusion strategy.


Although our sustainability strategy aligns with all aspects of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this role is specifically focused on environmental sustainability. The Sustainability Manager will work closely with colleagues specialising in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) and community programmes to ensure a joined-up approach across all areas of impact.


Primary Objectives

The primary objectives associated with this role will be:

- Manage our work on environmental sustainability, engage with our community and work with stakeholders to advance to action more sustainable behaviours.
- Work with the motorsport community especially our clubs and committees to support them to be more environmentally sustainable, owning KPI’s for adoption of the sustainability accreditation and the carbon calculator.
- Create and Lead on our environmental data using your environmental background to mature our baseline work and manage a reduction plan internally and across the sport as a whole.
- Work with internal stakeholders to propose and deliver wider sustainability projects.
- Line management responsibilities across environmental and social sustainability.


Additional Responsibilities

In addition to the primary objectives listed above, the Sustainability Manager will be responsible for:

- The secretariat of Motorsport UK’s sustainability committee organising agendas and liaising with members across the year.
- Create and deliver training on sustainability to motorsport stakeholders.
- Lead on data collection and analysis of the sports carbon footprint.
- Oversee the annual calculation motorsport UKs carbon footprint.
- Work closely with clubs to onboard them to the carbon calculator and sustainability accreditations and encourage take up.
- Liaise with the Marketing and Communications team over our sustainability activations and messages.
- Oversee and strategic responsibility of the environmental volunteer’s programme that support clubs on the ground.
- To make a positive contribution to the development and delivery of the key objectives of the sustainability strategy.
- As part of the Operations team help to ensure the organisation meets its own sustainable operations goals.
- Build a strategy for motorsport UK in terms of wider environmental impacts such as biodiversity
- Provide line management support across social sustainability and EDI function including advice and guidance to the EDI chair.


Core Competencies

Below are the core competencies, knowledge, and skills required to be successful in this role:

- You will have 5-7 years’ experience in a similar sustainability role, with a strong emphasis on data collection and analysis
- An interest in wider sustainability topics such as biodiversity and circular economy principles
- An interest in our wider EDI and community work as well as how we integrate our environmental sustainability work in our school’s outreach sessions
- Line management experience
- It is vital that you are personable and good at communicating with and influencing people
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- You will be a self-starter, capable of working autonomously
- Project management experience is essential
- You will be highly adept with both PowerPoint and Excel, and conversant with a wide range of project tools from Microsoft Office 365 suite of products.
- You must have a full, clean driving licence
- Previous experience or understanding of the motorsport industry is preferred but not essential.


Benefits

- Competitive salary
- 25 annual leave + bank holidays
- 5% pension contribution from Motorsport UK
- Private medical cover
- Financial, Physical and Mental wellbeing support
- 4 x annual salary life assurance
- Breakdown cover
- Free on site parking
- Access to a host of other member / staff benefits
How to apply
To apply for this vacancy, please forward a copy of your CV and Cover Letter to jointheteam@motorsportuk.org
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