Employability Week | Sustainable & Global Literacy for Employability, University Entry & Future Careers

14 Nov 2022 16:00 - 17:00

This session is designed for BritCham Shanghai’s Employability Week and focuses on bringing a greater awareness of current and future employees and employers, and encourages their approach and actions on sustainability, global citizenship and ESG.

Environmental, Social and Governance also known as ESG are the categories known to identify socially responsible companies. Traditionally ESG was used as a metric for investors to identify how “green friendly” a company is. Today ESG is moving towards any and every company being socially responsible and young people are a driving force for this change. Are companies ready for this and how can young people be sure they are choosing a socially responsible leader in their sector.

Young people are looking for their work to make a positive impact in any field. For businesses to attract the best young talent they need to have authentic connections with sustainable and global literacy and competency. On the part of recent graduates, they also need to find universities and even pre-tertiary education that offers and honors the very best of ESG so they can start their career and make meaningful change.

A graduate degree often isn’t enough to lead towards your dream job, but an advantage of being sustainably and globally savvy could make an impact. There are many sustainability-specific roles opening up, but more importantly, every role needs a sustainability lens.

This session is designed for high-school students, university graduates and young professionals to share their knowledge, passion and skills on sustainable and global literacy, while business and industry can learn from this and also share what they are doing in the sustainability and global literacy space. The exchange as an open discussion during the session should bring a greater awareness of current and future employees and employers, and encourage their approach and actions on sustainability, global citizenship and ESG. The key is collaboration for mutual benefit and maximum impact!

If you are a

high school student
university graduate
young business professionals
industry representatives
HR & recruitment leaders
business leaders
and anyone who is looking to attract the best talent in ESG-related area

We welcome you to join this session to learn more and contribute your own questions about business, sustainability, employability and where people, the planet and profit can and should merge in a world in need of climate and inequality solutions.

* Employability Week webinars and the Talent Bootcamp are FREE of charge for international school students, 2023 graduates and recent alumni of ALL UK universities.

d’Arcy Lunn

Group Head of Sustainability and Global Citizenship,
Education in Motion (EiM)

or the past 22 years d’Arcy has experienced more than 90 countries, given over 1700 presentations to 150,000+ people and worked with leading development, environmental, social justice and global education organisations and people.

His self-initiated concept and organisation, Teaspoons of Change, focuses on the personal choices, decisions and actions that have a positive impact on people and the planet.

d’Arcy is often seen each year around the world facilitating youth empowerment programs, supporting global citizen education and working with leading development organisations and projects including as a communications specialist with UNICEF.

Among other things d’Arcy has also built two self-sufficient Happy-simply tiny homes and in 2014 started Teaspoons of Change with a 1000km walk and 1500km bike ride in Japan.

In June 2018 he completed a Master’s in Peace Studies in Tokyo, Japan through the Rotary Peace Fellowship and now also gives Teaspoons of Peace presentations and workshops.

d’Arcy is currently the Group Head of Sustainability and Global Citizenship with the EiM Dulwich Group of Schools based in Shanghai, China and is also an ambassador, advocate and enthusiast with many organisations including: World’s Largest Lesson, JUMP! Foundation, Global Citizen, End Polio Now, UNICEF, WHO, Gates Foundation, RESULTS, the Global Education and Leadership Foundation, Live Below the Line and many others…

Victoria Foster

Head of Junior School,
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong;
Chair, BritCham Shanghai Education Committee

Ms. Victoria Foster has been an international educator for over 20 years. She started her teaching career in Winchester, UK before moving overseas to work in Kuala Lumper, Malaysia. She is currently the Head of Junior School at Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong. Victoria has been the Chair of the British Chamber Education Committee since August 2021 and has also served as a Council of International Schools Accreditor for over 10 years.

[4:00 pm] Welcome speech and session introduction by Victoria Foster, Head of Junior School, Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong
[4:05 pm] Keynote speech – key concepts and updates on sustainable and global literacy by d’Arcy Lunn, Group Head of Sustainability and Global Citizenship, Education in Motion (EiM)
[4:25 pm] Opening discussion, moderated by d’Arcy Lunn
[4:40 pm] Reflection and sharing of key takeaways from discussions
[5:00 pm] Wrap up and look towards the future and next step action plans
[5:10 pm] Closing remark
[5:15 pm] Event ends

Notes:

This webinar will be conducted via ZOOM. You will receive an email with a ZOOM meeting ID and password around 12 pm, 13 November. Please ensure your email address is valid, and please make sure to check your junk box as well.

In case of cancellation, please kindly note you must email Jun.Wang@britishchambershanghai.cn before 5 pm, 11 November. For paid participants, due to the service charges of Glueup and online payment platforms, we can only partially refund up to 90% of your ticket price and payment will be processed within 14 days after the event via your original payment method. However, it is non-refundable for cancellation request made beyond the above-mentioned timeframe.

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