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Job: Energy Team Project Officer – Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria

By |2024-03-07T14:13:25+00:00March 7th, 2024|News, Vacancies - Jobs|

Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria is expanding its service to deliver more free home energy advice support across all districts of Cumbria. We are looking for a project officer with skills and experience of providing  excellent customer service and experience of working with a diverse range of  people and communities. You will be part of a passionate team, working cooperatively to provide home energy advice in clients' homes, but telephone and at events across Cumbria. You'll develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders including charities, local authorities and voluntary organisations. Key Responsibilities and Tasks Service delivery: energy advice by [...]

Job – Project Manager: Energy Team

By |2024-03-06T12:00:12+00:00March 6th, 2024|Vacancies - Jobs|

Our award winning Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria service is expanding, and we are looking for an exceptional Project Manager to support the service to deliver even more home energy saving advice and support across Cumbria. This is a brilliant opportunity if you have experience of managing customer services including systems, processes and compliance. You will be part of a passionate team, leading the customer service and operational aspect of Cold to Cosy Homes and developing new project and contract requirements to meet service specifications and client demands. Key Responsibilities and Tasks Service delivery and development to include [...]

Inspiring Good Business Networking Event brings a feel-good vibe to decarbonisation!

By |2024-02-28T16:48:14+00:00February 28th, 2024|News|

Businesses across Westmorland & Furness are invited to an ‘Inspiring Good Business’ networking event on the 7th of March, in Kendal Town Hall Organised by Future Fixers CIC as part of the W&F Green Enterprise Hub, The event is aimed at making connections with local organisations who are looking to become more sustainable. It will provide an opportunity for informal networking as well as inspiration from an internationally acclaimed speaker, good music and local, low-carbon food and drink. The event is an evening with inspirational speaker, Mark Shayler. Mark Shayler is an innovation and environmental advisor and author of You [...]

Dream Placement students learn with Climate Fresk

By |2024-02-28T16:17:54+00:00February 28th, 2024|Homepage, News|

Last week we welcomed three students for the Centre for Leadership Performance's 'Dream Placement' work experience week.  The dream placement programme is designed to support our county's talented young people in gaining experience in industry and business, and to help them make informed choices about their future careers. We enjoyed taking part in the initial training, interview and selection process and were looking forward to welcoming the students into CAfS! Our three students, Samia, Sophie and Olivia, joined us at various points across the week. Activities ranged from project work with our partners at CDEC to tree planting, looking at [...]

A busy start to the year for our Energy Team!

By |2024-02-28T16:12:08+00:00February 28th, 2024|Homepage, News|

January proved to be a very busy month for the Energy team here at CAfS thanks to our Cold to Cosy Homes Project and the extension into retrofit advice. They made 117 home visits - which is equal to 176 hours of free energy advice to Cumbrian Households and have received 347 online referrals since the new year. They have also spent some time developing their skills and increasing their capacity, this has included workplace training with the Samaritans and their “conversations with vulnerable people” . We have also had two members of the team complete their retrofit qualification Level [...]

Job: Office and People Support Manager

By |2024-03-12T09:07:00+00:00February 22nd, 2024|Vacancies - expired|

We're looking for someone with energy and enthusiasm to work with colleagues throughout CAfS to ensure the provision of high quality support services. About you You'll have experience in organisational or financial administration, or office or operational management. You'll use that experience to lead a team and manage staff performance, and provide HR support across all of our teams. You'll be able to manage a diverse workload, and prioritise tasks and time management. You'll have practical experience of using an accounting system, and excellent IT skills. You'll be an IT whizz and have experience using an accounting system. You'll [...]

Job: Retrofit Customer Service Administrator

By |2024-03-14T07:11:13+00:00February 21st, 2024|Vacancies - expired|

Join our passionate and friendly team as a Retrofit Customer Services Administrator CAfS mission is to achieve net zero by 2037 or sooner by promoting and facilitating low carbon living and its benefits. We provide practical support for the development of low carbon plans and policies for places, communities, businesses, local authorities, other organisations, and individuals. CAfS' Home Retrofit Advice Services We are continuing to develop and expand our Home Retrofit Advice Service to deliver a range of services to support Cumbrian homeowners to retrofit their homes. The service supports able to pay clients who wish to make significant building [...]

Free Home Retrofit Planner for Farmers Extended

By |2024-02-13T16:22:49+00:00February 13th, 2024|Homepage, News|

Due to a successful first phase, we can support four more farming families in Cumbria to benefit from a fully funded Home Retrofit Planner for your farmhouse – a comprehensive energy audit for your home. In this call out we are looking for farmhouses on “working farms” located anywhere in Cumbria. Farmhouses are often older properties that can be draughty, hard to heat, suffering from damp or water ingress, losing heat though walls, doors, windows and roofs. These beautiful traditional properties need an understanding of heritage skills, appropriate materials to fix and maintain. We know that for farmers, your farmhouse, [...]

A Greener Valentine’s

By |2024-02-13T14:59:39+00:00February 12th, 2024|Homepage, News|

Valentine’s Day may traditionally be the day we show love and appreciation for our partners, but how we choose to do that can have an enormous impact on our planet.   Did you know that out of season cut flowers have one of the largest carbon footprints per pound spent at the till? Red roses definitely aren’t a seasonal bloom in February in Cumbria and as a result many of the roses in the shops this week will have been imported from as far away as Kenya and Latin America, picking up the hefty carbon price tag of 2.4kg carbon per [...]

Contractor Opportunity: Climate Trainers

By |2024-03-15T12:09:34+00:00February 8th, 2024|Vacancies - expired|

A great opportunity for those passionate about combatting climate change... If you are passionate about combatting climate change, knowledgeable about climate science and solutions, or have experience of delivering or developing training, this Climate and Carbon Literacy Trainer opportunity is for you. We are looking for up to three friendly, articulate and highly motivated trainers to join our existing team to help meet the growing demand for our very popular Climate and Carbon Literacy and related training programmes. This role will be a freelance contract (employment status will be determined via the HMRC checker), to help us train [...]

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