Energy Projects Officer

Job Description

Energy Projects Officer

*Hybrid working - 2 days per week on site*

*Sustainability / Carbon Reduction / Retrofit*

Do you want to work with a London Borough aiming to deliver energy and carbon reduction projects? An exciting opportunity is available to work on a retrofit / carbon reduction programme, aimed at helping private home owners and local businesses become more sustainable.

The role:

You will focus on developing and delivering the council's private sector retrofit offer. This will involve significant public engagement and development of marketing and promotional activity to encourage private property owners to decarbonise their own properties.

Other duties include:

• Project inception - identifying opportunities for energy savings and how to deliver them
• Project development - building up the project, including working with relevant stakeholders, calculating cost estimates, carrying out a cost-benefit analysis, developing the project documentation and seeking formal approval for the project
• Securing funding, which may involve writing external funding bids
• Drawing up tender documents and procuring contractors to deliver the project
• Management of contractors during the project delivery and ensuring stakeholders are involved throughout

Key skills and experience:

• Experience of delivering energy-related projects, ideally in a public sector environment
• Ability to manage energy-related projects, including cost-benefit analysis, procurement, contract management and budget management.
• Ability to identify energy-saving opportunities that could be developed into projects
• Ability to manage a varied workload, managing several different simultaneous workstreams
• Ability to assess large datasets and manipulate them using Microsoft Excel.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.