With the ongoing growth of CAfS and an internal promotion, we are now recruiting for a new Project Manager to join our Low Carbon Communities team. This is a great opportunity to join our team of project managers delivering our Solar Made Easy and Retrofit Made Easy projects.

About you

You’ll use your brilliant communication and engagement skills to deliver complex information simply and concisely and encourage, support and manage contributions and opinions from multiple individuals in community groups. Your event and project management skills will ensure you successfully develop the projects, keep to budget, and manage quality and risk.

About this role

This Project Manager role will support our Community Retrofit and Renewables project, a programme which includes continuing the roll out of the Solar Made Easy project to new communities, and developing and delivering the Retrofit Made Easy project in five communities in Cumbria, including one farming community.

Both projects work with local community sustainability groups to engage residents around installing solar PV panels and/or retrofitting their homes for energy efficiency. We organise community information events where we provide advice and give people opportunities to get further support.

About the Low Carbon Communities Team

Our Low Carbon Communities Team takes an area or sector-based approach, delivering carbon reduction projects uniting people through shared action and which provide benefits to their community. The term ‘community’ includes groups of residents or businesses or other groups with a common interest.

Our team supports communities to deliver tried and tested reduction activities as well as to trial new approaches. We practice exemplary engagement, consultation and involvement techniques, transfer knowledge and skills and provide project management.

To apply, please email your completed application form to us by 9am on Wednesday 4 October.

Interviews will be held via Zoom on 10 & 11 October 2023.

The interview process will also involve one or more tasks relating to the role.

The important stuff

  • SALARY SCALE: £26,000 – £34,000 (FTE)

  • LOCATION: Flexible working patterns with blended home, site and office (Penrith) work.

  • HOURS: 22.5 – 37.5 hours a week, 3 – 5 days per week, subject to confirmation of additional funding and candidate preference.

  • START DATE AND DURATION: As soon as possible, fixed term to 31 October 2024 with potential for extension.

You’ll love working at CAfS

Working at CAfS comes with great benefits. You’ll be joining a friendly and supportive organisation, and your wellbeing and work:life balance are hugely important to us. As well as flexibility around your working hours and location, you’ll have 22 days of paid annual leave pro rata, plus bank/public holidays. We pay an employer pension contribution of 6% from day one of employment.

What a job at CAfS offers you…

  • The opportunity to be on the frontline driving action on climate change as part of a respected organisation that is making a difference.

  • Collaboration with dedicated colleagues, communities, local authorities and other organisations who are striving towards the same goal.

  • A dynamic working environment in which we continually innovate to achieve the best outcomes for employees, communities and planet.

  • A consultative working culture where staff are encouraged to contribute to new developments.

Our work culture and benefits…

  • We are a friendly and supportive team of colleagues and board of trustees

  • We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do.

  • We will provide the equipment you need to do your job.

  • Employee wellbeing is very important to us. We do what we can to help colleagues achieve a great work/life balance.

  • We have a flexible working policy and we use it. Most staff work part time so we are accustomed to managing different work patterns. Staff can also work at home where possible.

  • We invest in learning and development and encourage people to develop their skills and commit time and resources to development.

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