{"id":43,"date":"2011-05-23T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/05\/23\/the-greenwich-sustainable-procurement-officer\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:32:59","slug":"the-greenwich-sustainable-procurement-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/05\/23\/the-greenwich-sustainable-procurement-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greenwich Sustainable Procurement Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! The Green Gnome has asked me to use this blog to introduce myself \u2013 my name is Abbie and I\u2019m the new(ish)Sustainable Procurement Officer at the University! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Abbie Curtis – Sustainable Procurement Officer Extraordinaire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I started a few weeks ago after being given just one weekend notice between my interview and my first day! Since then it\u2019s been a bit chaotic \u2013 trying to understand the University\u2019s complex procurement processes and work out how to most effectively communicate sustainable procurement to the hundreds of people that are involved in procurement decisions across all three campuses, as well as the thousands of companies supplying the University. I\u2019m based in the Procurement & Business Services department which means that as well as successfully embedding sustainable procurement (fingers crossed!) I can constantly annoy colleagues about one-sided printing and lights being left on \u2013 brilliant! At the moment I\u2019m finalising our first Sustainable Procurement Policy & Strategy so have a look out for that on our Procurement & Business Services webpages soon.<\/p>\n

Before joining the University of Greenwich on this temporary contract I worked at a corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultancy. I was involved in dozens of projects right across the spectrum of CSR and sustainability including community, employees, the environment and supply chain. In particular I was fascinated by the complexity, challenges and opportunities presented by global value chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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City of Bath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I completed a masters in Business & Community at the University of Bath last Autumn and my dissertation was on the takeover of Cadbury Plc by Kraft last year \u2013 an excuse to do lots of research into chocolate! Aside from chocolate, my interests include being a closet twitcher (Avery Hill\u2019s Green Woodpecker and dozens of Chaffinches being my campus favourites so far) and utilising the UK\u2019s marvellous public transport to visit friends across the country. Last weekend I went to a Eurovision Party in sunny Bournemouth! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Green Gnome’s favourite act from Eurovision 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! The Green Gnome has asked me to use this blog to introduce myself \u2013 my name is Abbie and I\u2019m the new(ish)Sustainable Procurement Officer at the University! Abbie Curtis – Sustainable Procurement Officer Extraordinaire I started a few weeks ago after being given just one weekend notice between my… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[132,310,321],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","category-uncategorized","tag-eurovision","tag-sustainable-procurement","tag-twitching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}