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SALARY RANGE:  £21,336 to £25,400 per annum full-time equivalent, (£17,068, to £20,320 for a 30-hour week) depending on skills and experience. 

HOURS:  22.5 to 30 hours a week, with flexibility to work across 3, 4 or 5 days. The working times are flexible but must include core office hours of 10am-3pm unless agreed otherwise. There may also be occasional need to work evenings/weekends for event or meeting support. 

START/END DATE: Start as soon as possible. Fixed-term contract to 30 April 2023 (with potential for extension subject to funding) 

LOCATION:  Contractually based at our office in Penrith. However, we are open to flexible working patterns and blended home, site and office working. 

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Could you help us run our range of home energy projects and services?

If you have experience of working on projects or helping to run a service, then we’d love to hear from you. Demand has never been higher for our home energy services, as people around Cumbria struggle more and more with rising energy bills. We have some fantastic services to help households save on their home energy bills, but we need a new colleague to help us deliver them and expand them.

You’ll be supporting our award-winning Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria service. We offer energy-saving advice and free draughtproofing, through in-home visits, by phone and at events around the county. CAfS also offers a range of commercial services to householders wanting to retrofit their homes to save energy, such as home audits and advice services.  You’ll be a core part of our friendly team making it all happen.

You’ll have the independence to get on and deliver aspects of the service, supporting the service manager. You’ll deliver energy advice, give great customer service, build relationships with partners to help us expand the service and support our team of professional energy advisers.

You’ll also use your experience and creativity to develop new ways to support our clients to save energy and afford to heat their homes. 

As an employee of Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), you’ll be working for an organisation that is flexible, supportive and values your wellbeing. We can offer you a healthy work/life balance, including some flexibility in when and where you work your hours, along with an employer pension contribution of 6% from day one of employment and holiday entitlement of 22 days pro rata plus bank and public holidays. 

CAfS is Cumbria’s climate change organisation. Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria and we strive to bring about a better way of life in balance with our environment. Our mission is to empower and enable people, communities, and businesses to live and work more sustainably by sharing our knowledge, practice, skills, networks and practical experience. We manage and deliver events, advice, training and practical projects across the county as well as providing specialist consultancy services to enable individuals, communities, businesses and local authorities to drive a shift towards a Zero Carbon Cumbria.  

We hope you will consider joining us and being part of Cumbria-wide efforts to tackle climate change while making lives better.  

Below you’ll find full details about the role and the skills you’d ideally have. You’ll find these in the job description and person specification. If you can’t tick all the boxes, please do apply as we can offer support and on-the-job training to the right candidate. If you have any questions about the job or the application process, please do get in touch for an informal chat with the Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria manager, Gareth: [email protected].

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Job description & person specification

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The job description and person specification below will give you full details about the role and experience you’d ideally have:

Project Officer – Job Description

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How to apply

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To apply, please download and fill in the application form below and email it to [email protected]

CAfS Application Form

There is no closing date for return of applications. We’ll close recruitment when we’ve found the right candidate, so please do apply sooner rather than later.

If your application is successful, we’ll invite you for an interview and arrange a time to suit you. Interviews will be held via Zoom.

Not sure you’ve got the right skills or experience? You’re welcome to send us your CV and have a chat with the service manager. Email [email protected].

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Some great benefits of working at CAfS

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Deciding whether to apply? Working at CAfS comes with some 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, as mentioned above, 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.  

Find out more about the benefits of working at CAfS >

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Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 6 July 2022.

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Are you looking for an unpaid opportunity that will help you to increase your confidence, empower you to change things for the better, and where you can – empower others, all while helping to tackle climate change? CAfS is recruiting 20 community climate champions across Cumbria to help us deliver the second year of a programme to boost knowledge about climate science and solutions and inspire people to take action in their own lives.

Champions will run interactive sessions for their local communities, ranging from short ‘climate crash course’ sessions to conversation cafes or reading groups, or just giving a talk or running a discussion with a small group. 

By raising awareness and understanding about climate change, you’ll empower people to act and play their full part in bringing about a zero-carbon Cumbria. 

You’ll receive training to deliver these sessions in your community, including a 1 day comprehensive, accredited Carbon Literacy training course. Plus you’ll have the full support of our Community Climate Champions Coordinator. We also hope to arrange a one day Zero Carbon Britain training (Centre for Alternative Technology) as an optional extra for those who wish to attend. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop new skills, as well as bringing benefits to your community and playing a really important part in tackling climate change. 

The role description below has full details about the project and the role. 

This opportunity is open to people over the age of 18 only. If you’re under 18, please do keep an eye on our website and social media, as there’ll be opportunities for youth volunteers at a later date. 

We wish to support diversification of the voices in the Cumbrian climate movement and particularly welcome applications from individuals on a low income, individuals in areas without an existing sustainability group or from anyone who feels that their voice, or the voice of their community is under-represented. 

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Application Process

Please apply by completing the expression of interest form below. Please do not send a CV. Guidance for submitting your application is included in the form.

Expression of Interest Form

Closing date for return of applications is 9am on 6 July 2022.

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Role specification

If you prefer to download the role and person specification, please use the link below:

Community Climate Champion – Role Specification

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THE ORGANISATION:  Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), Rural Eden Foyer, Old London Road, Penrith, CA11 8ET.  

LOCATION: Home-based and in the community  

REPORTS TO: Community Climate Champions Coordinator 

MINIMUM TIME COMMITMENT:  Roughly 4-5 hours/month August onwards, following 10 hours of induction and training in July/August. Starting from August, ideally you would run at least one session every 2 months. This could be an hour or 90-minute session or a quick climate conversation café session or a reading group or giving a talk to a small local group.  

BENEFITS:  This is an unpaid role, with benefits including: 

• A free full-day accredited Carbon Literacy training session (worth £139 – see training dates listed later in document). We also hope to arrange a one day Zero Carbon Britain training (Centre for Alternative Technology) as an optional extra for those who wish to attend. 
• Increased skills and abilities in delivering climate science and solutions training and/or conversations. 
• Improved confidence and empowerment through opportunities to be mentored during the process. 

• The chance to be part of a structured and supported network of people who can learn from each other.  
• Social opportunities, including forums, a buddying system, group and one-to-one chances to get the tailored support you need to enjoy and make a difference in this role.   
• The opportunity to have costs met to enable you to deliver the training, for example venue costs, Microsoft Office subscription, Zoom Pro accounts or a webcam. 
• The opportunity to build skills and experience that could support a future application to be a paid freelance carbon literacy trainer. 

DURATION:  Your induction would take place in July. Your sessions would be delivered from August to December 2022, but being able to sustain your commitment by delivering ongoing events or talks beyond this time will be valuable. 

APPLICATIONS BY: 9am on Wednesday 6th July 2022. Please apply using the application form. Please note that champions will be selected based on their application only; no interviews will be held for this role. We encourage applications from those who wish to build knowledge or confidence, as well as from those who are experienced. 

CAfS ROLE AND PURPOSE  

Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria, and we strive to bring about a better way of life, in balance with our environment. Our mission is to empower and enable people, communities and businesses to live and work more sustainably by sharing our knowledge, practice, skills, networks and practical experience. 

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ABOUT CAfS 

Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria which is socially, environmentally, and economically beneficial for all.  

Our mission is to promote and facilitate low carbon living and its benefits – inspiring and supporting individuals, communities and organisations across Cumbria and beyond to take action to decarbonise lives, communities and businesses by 2037 or sooner. We do this through events, advice, training and practical projects across the county as well as providing specialist consultancy services. We share our knowledge, skills and practical experience as widely as possible.   

CAfS is an award-winning charity with a team of 28 highly skilled staff, working with a pool of specialist contractors and volunteers to deliver around 20 major, transformational low-carbon projects each year. Now in our 24th year, CAfS is the first point of reference in the county for information on sustainability and low-carbon living. 

ABOUT ZCCP 

The Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership is working towards making Cumbria the first net zero carbon county in the UK, by 2037.  

It’s an ambitious and inspiring challenge that will touch on many aspects of life in Cumbria to bring down the county’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. One part of this work is an exciting five-year programme of community activity to help people reduce their carbon footprint, particularly from food, waste and the goods we buy. It’s all been made possible thanks to a £2.5 million grant from the National Lottery Climate Action Fund. 

The partnership brings together 80 organisations spanning the public, private and third sectors, with the aim of cutting greenhouse gas emissions – the root cause of the climate crisis.  

Community Climate Champions can play a key role in generating the necessary changes and actions needed within their communities to enable Cumbria to reach its 2037 net zero ambition. 

About this project 

Following a successful climate champions project in 2021 CAfS are recruiting and training a further cohort of community climate champions to run a widespread programme of events on climate science and solutions across Cumbria, supported by a training coordinator. This exciting project is possible thanks to funding from the Emergence Foundation and The National Lottery Climate Action Fund. 

We are aiming to reach communities who may not have the support of a sustainability network, who are concerned about climate change but not sure what to do about it. 

We are hoping that alongside the original network of climate champions the additional 20 champions, between them, will also train or run events for hundreds of people over the life of the project, so that they will develop a sense of agency through having a much better understanding of the causes of, and solutions to, the climate crisis. This will ultimately benefit the environment by action taken to reduce emissions and tackle climate change. 

All champions will receive free Carbon Literacy training and in depth support. A training package has been developed and the network of volunteers will be supported in a variety of ways to deliver events, talks or reading groups to those they wish to influence, including businesses, groups and other organisations, even to friends and family.  

 

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Main purpose of role 

To work with the CAfS Community Climate Champions Coordinator as part of a team of volunteer community champions to run a widespread programme of events, training and facilitated discussions on climate science and solutions across Cumbria.  

Champions will identify groups within their own communities to work with, as trusted messengers, and as such will be able to support a step change in the understanding of and attitudes towards climate change solutions across Cumbria. We wish to diversify the voices in Cumbria’s sustainability movement and particularly wish to reach under-represented groups in areas without an active sustainability group, and particularly welcome applications from those on a low income. 

Key areas of responsibility 

• To keep own knowledge of climate change and emission reduction measures up to date.  
• To prepare for talks and events by becoming familiar with resources and attending any train-the-trainer training provided by CAfS.  
• To run events, training or facilitated conversations with own chosen audiences and to engage the participants effectively (online as well as face-to-face given COVID considerations) 
• To use the training provided by CAfS to shape these sessions 
• To gather data, both quantitative and qualitative, to enable monitoring and evaluation of the project by the coordinator.  

• To evaluate the sessions you deliver and to share your learning with the team of champions. 
• To share your learning and resources with other champions. 

Main tasks  

• Identify groups and organisations that would like to take part in climate science and solutions training. We want champions to be able to deliver this training (or hold conversations that share the key messages from the training) to groups across Cumbria throughout 2022 and beyond.   
• Work with other community champions and the Community Climate Champions Coordinator to share resources to deliver training.  

• Deliver training sessions and conversations in the community to groups and organisations.  
• Provide peer support, and share lessons learned with the pool of champions. 
• Help to evaluate sessions for impact.  

Skills, abilities and attitudes required 

• A basic understanding of climate science and ways to reduce carbon emissions. A free full day’s accredited Carbon Literacy training session will be offered to build on existing knowledge.  
• Confidence, or a desire to build confidence, in public speaking, running events or training. 
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, including dealing with difficult situations and conflicting views.  
• A non-judgemental attitude and an understanding that there are a range of views around action on climate change.  
• Willingness to deliver training sessions and conversations using online platforms if needed. Support will be given.  

• Willingness to engage with CAfS training on science and solutions, and also on how to engage with different audiences.  

Timescales and time input 

Your induction would take place in July.  

Starting from August, we would like you to run at least one session every 2 months until at least December 2022. This could be an hour or 90-minute session or a quick climate conversation café session or a reading group or giving a talk.  

Whilst the core period of delivery for your sessions will be August to December 2022, being able to sustain further sessions beyond this time will be valuable. 

Successful applicants will hear back from us by Thursday 7th July at 5pm. 

There are two dates when appointed champions could attend the full day accredited course (comprised of two morning sessions or two afternoon sessions):  

• Tuesday 19 + 26 July 9.15 AM -1.15 AM  

OR 

• Wednesday 20 + 27th 1.15-5.15 PM 

NB – If you are unable to attend on these dates there will be another opportunity in August. 

CAfS contact 

Clare Taylor is the Community Climate Champions Coordinator and will induct, train, support and guide the champions. Please email [email protected] with any questions and please do submit the expression of interest form by the deadline. 

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Closing date: 10am on Tuesday 14 June 2022.

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We’re looking for a knowledgeable and articulate person to help us raise money through donations, grants and contracts. You’ll be a clear and confident communicator with the ability to create persuasive digital material with a strong attention to detail. You’ll have knowledge of fundraising and will be able to research potential new income streams working alongside our development manager.

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Application & Interview Process

Please apply by completing the application form below. Please do not send a CV. Guidance for submitting your application is included in the form.

CAfS Application Form

Closing date for return of applications is 10am on 14 June 2022.

Interviews will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 21 June 2022.

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Job description

If you prefer to download the job description and person specification, please use the link below:

Fundraising Officer – Job Description

BENEFITS: CAfS offers an excellent working environment, with benefits ranging from flexible working to a pension contribution. Find out more about the benefits of working at CAfS >

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EMPLOYER: Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS)

LOCATION: Contractually based at our office, Eden Rural Foyer, Old London Road, Penrith, CA11 8ET, however we are open to flexible working patterns and blended (home, site and office-based) or home working is possible for this role.

REPORTS TO: Development Manager

HOURS: 22.5 hrs a week. There may be some flexibility with the contracted hours, which can be discussed at interview if of interest to the applicant.

SALARY RANGE: £21,000-£25,000 per annum full-time equivalent (£12,600 – £15,000 for the 22.5 hour week), depending on skills and experience.

DURATION: Fixed-term 12-month contract. With potential for extension subject to funding.

APPLICATIONS BY: 10am Tuesday 14^th June, 2022. Interviews 21^st June, 2022

Please apply using the application form. CVs will not be considered.

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ABOUT CAFS:

Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria which is socially, environmentally, and economically beneficial for all.

Our mission is to promote and facilitate low carbon living and its benefits – inspiring and supporting individuals, communities, and organisations across Cumbria and beyond to take action to decarbonise lives, communities, and businesses by 2037 or sooner. We do this through events, advice, training, and practical projects across the county as well as providing specialist consultancy services. We share our knowledge, skills, and practical experience as widely as possible.

CAfS is an award-winning charity with a team of 28 highly skilled staff, working with a pool of specialist contractors and volunteers to deliver around 20 major, transformational low-carbon projects each year. Now in our 24th year, CAfS is the first point of reference in the county for information on sustainability and low-carbon living.

CAfS continues to see a rapid rise in the demand for its services and has grown to a turnover of almost £1.5 million. However, if we are to meet our vision of zero carbon in Cumbria, within the timescales that the climate emergency requires, then we need to do more. At present most of our funds are restricted to projects, and less than 1% of our income is from donations or corporate partnerships. Working alongside our Development Manager and our marketing team, this is an exciting opportunity to help us increase our core and unrestricted funding streams.

 

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MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE: 

• To help implement our donor and corporate fundraising strategies including campaign and stewardship support.
• To increase core funding through development of Trust and Foundation fundraising.
• To research grants, contracts and other funding opportunities and feed these into our funding pipeline.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Undertake research about potential donor, corporate and funding prospects, providing briefings for meetings and updating our databases.
• Provide stewardship support to, our donors, funders and corporate partners – building and maintaining relationships including thank you letters, updates and invitations to events.
• Provide support to donation campaigns and funding applications including drafting cases for support, developing beneficiary case studies & videos and working with our marketing team on digital fundraising content.
• Provide support to community fundraising activities.
• Develop a pipeline of, and coordinate applications to, Trusts and Foundations including writing creative and compelling funding proposals which meet grantors requirements.
• Researching opportunities on funding platforms and websites, passing these onto project managers, and tracking them in our pipeline and funder database.
• Working with project managers to compile information and supporting documentation for bids and funding applications.
• Supporting the development and implementation of a fundraising CRM, including ensuring the information we hold is data protection complaint.
• Support the development and delivery of fundraising events including developing appropriate materials, dealing with bookings, event preparation, event set-up and event follow-up.
• Support the monitoring of our impact and reporting on our effectiveness to our funders.
• Assist with the preparation of trustee and funder reports
• Undertake work as directed by line manager, including collecting and inputting data, data analysis, emails, meeting minutes, etc.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT:

• Manage suppliers as required to support the delivery of the projects.
• Manage volunteers as required to support the delivery of the projects.

OTHER RESPONSBILITIES:

• Represent CAfS and help to raise the profile of CAfS’ work as opportunities arise.
• Contribute to news articles, web content and other information for publicity and CAfS’ profile raising
• Ensure documents are completed and filed appropriately.
• Ensure CAfS’ ethical funding policies and protocols are followed.
• Take part in staff meetings, team meetings and training.
• Perform other duties that may be required from time to time.

Person Specification

Essential skills and attributes:

• An understanding of the different types of fundraising and ways to develop these to support the charity.
• Knowledge of fundraising information sources, and familiarity with research techniques for fundraising prospect research.
• Proven ability to write clear and articulate prose, strong attention to detail and editing skills, with the ability to transform project information into compelling and persuasive proposals.
• Ability to create compelling online and digital fundraising materials using the experiences of our beneficiaries to inspire supporters.
• Proven ability to develop and manage ongoing relationships with people and organisations e.g. donor journeys
• Ability to work with and interrogate databases and spreadsheets
• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Confident, with the ability to work independently, and as part of a team
• Proven ability to use initiative and make effective decisions.
• Ability to prioritise work, manage time effectively and meet deadlines
• Organised, dedicated, highly motivated and reliable
• Proficiency in Microsoft computer packages (Word, Excel, Outlook), and working knowledge of SharePoint and Teams.
• A passion for local climate change action and a commitment to CAfS’ aims, values and objectives

Desirable skills and attributes

The following attributes are desirable but not essential:

• Experience of developing proposals and securing funding from trusts, foundations, and statutory sources
• Experience of developing and managing supporter/donor journeys
• Experience of using a fundraising CRM to profile donors and target communications and fundraising activities while focused on long term growth
• Comfortable with networking and collaborating with project partners, stakeholders and other NGOs to develop joint funding proposals
• A good level of numeracy and an understanding of budget development and management
• Experience of event organisation
• Experience of database/customer relationship management systems.
• Experience of data gathering and collating e.g. event participant feedback data.
• Experience of setting up and helping to run online meetings eg MS Teams, Zoom.
• An understanding of the work of CAfS and the impact of climate change on the environment and economy.

If you would like more information about the role, please contact CAfS Development Manager.

Email. [email protected]

Tel. 01768 593272

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