Soft skills
Personal issues:
  • Be independent, dynamic and organized, able to think critically and creatively.
  • Be capable of analysis, synthesis and long-term planning.
  • Have a high self-esteem and frustration tolerance, capacity for self-assessment and constructive self-criticism.
  • Be results-orientated, creative, and capable of initiative, decision-making and dealing with information.
  • Be capable of learning on one’s own; recognise the need for continuous learning and analytical problem solving.
Advocacy:
  • Ability to influence and motivate others; have organization, planning and judgment skills.
  • Knowledge to facilitate change in others so that they recognize the importance of green skills perspective.
  • Lobbying on behalf of the public.
Communication skills:
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, clearly and concisely.
  • Ability to adapt one’s style and language content in respect to the target person/auditorium.
  • Be acceptably fluent in English to communicate.
  • Management of self and people including delegating tasks.
  • Appraisal, training and personal development.
Computing skills:
  • Competences and skills in use of modern technological tools to facilitate organisation and logistics.
  • Collecting and publishing data from censuses and registers.
  • Use and management of information systems.
  • Experience with the use of appropriate generic and specific software for environmental studies.
  • Use of basic computer packages in the management of environmental informatics.

(Self)Management skills:

  • Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Contribute to planning at all levels: from policy to practice.
  • Understanding different cultures and values.
  • Have leadership and negotiation abilities, be capable of leading working groups, motivate collaborators, generate empathy and negotiate.
Organisational skill:
  • Knowledge on chemical engineering services organisation and funding mechanisms functioning.
  • Competence and skills in meeting the objectives/produce deliverables with prescribed norms and conditions.
  • Keep up to date with innovations in clean environment and know how to analyse future trends.
  • Knowledge on policy and strategy developments.
  • Ability to make international comparisons and their interpretation.
Prioritization ability:
  • Understanding methods used to determine priorities and their advantage and disadvantages.
  • Understanding the competing and conflicting influences on public.
Professional governance:
  • Knowledge about audit, standards and governance in chemical engineering.
  • Ability for assessment of own performance.
Use of media:
  • Knowledge on the principles of preparation and delivery of messages through media.
  • Develop written and oral presentations for both adult learning professionals and general audience.
Collaborative working:
  • Capable of team work (within changing environments) and adapting to multidisciplinary and international teams on different scales.
  • Willingness to accept corporate culture.
  • Knowledge about the principles and methods of partnership working and benefits of collaborative work.
  • Awareness how different organisation cultures can influence outcomes of collaborative work.
  • Knowledge about how to influence, negotiate, facilitate and manage in multi-groups environment.

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