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Date posted: Tue 1 Dec 2020 Closing date: 9am, Wed 6 Jan 2021 This new role at CAfS will be responsible for strategic financial management, working alongside our Trustees and CEO - an important member of our new senior management team. You'll also oversee day-to-day resources management with the help of the CAfS administration and finance team, which you'll manage, working alongside specialist HR and IT contractors. As an experienced business and finance manager, you'll set and monitor budgets and oversee day-to-day financial management. Your advice, guidance and financial reports will inform the development and delivery of our [...]

Date posted: Wed 25 Nov 2020 Closing date: 9am, Tue 5 Jan 2021 We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced communications professional to lead and deliver communications to support the five-year Zero Carbon Cumbria project, funded by the National Lottery's Climate Action Fund. This forms part of the most extensive programme of action on climate change ever seen in the county, led by the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership. You'll work at a highly strategic level, setting the communications strategy for the programme, advising and influencing people from the 70 diverse organisations that are part of [...]

Date posted: Thu 8 Oct 2020 Closing date: 9am, Mon 2 Nov 2020 We are looking for an experienced, skilled and highly organised administrator with superb attention to detail to help us deliver the most extensive climate change action programme ever seen in Cumbria. You'll be a core part of the day-to-day running of the ambitious five-year Zero Carbon Cumbria project, funded by the National Lottery's Climate Action Fund. You'll support the project team based at CAfS and administer the meetings of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership, which includes more than 70 organisations from across the county. [...]

Date posted: Thurs 24th September 2020 Closing date: 9am, Mon 19 October 2020 Join our active team and take overall responsibility for our new Community Carbon Literacy Project. This project will develop, recruit and train a brand-new network of twenty community trainers, to run a widespread programme of events on climate science and solutions, including open home events and carbon literacy training courses across Cumbria.  The role includes the responsibility of recruiting and training the volunteers and supporting them to deliver the project in their communities and driving forward carbon literacy in the county.   [...]

Date posted: Thurs 24th September 2020 Closing date: 9am, Mon 19 October 2020 Join our busy team in delivering the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership along with a huge host of organisations from around the county. The ZCCP involves nearly 70 partners spanning the public, private and third sectors with the aim of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The role includes taking overall responsibility for the coordination and management of the project, recruiting other members of the ZCCP team, developing a rolling programme plan and creating a programme management framework as well as a host of other responsibilities that [...]