Location: Aylesbury
Overview
Are you passionate about tackling climate change and improving lives? Join us at Buckinghamshire Council as we deliver ambitious, real-world solutions to reduce emissions, cut energy bills, and support our most vulnerable residents. This is an exciting time to join our Climate Response Team us as we continue our mission to address the challenge of climate change.
By working with us, you will be an integral part of delivering our Climate Change & Air Quality Strategy. This role will take the lead in managing the Warm Homes: Local Grant for which we have received over £3m in grant funding from the government. Over the next two and a half years, you will oversee our managing agent as they deliver energy efficiency and low carbon heating upgrades to low income homes across the county. This will help to reduce energy bills, reduce carbon emissions and improve living standards in the treated households. In so doing, you will be playing a key part in our journey to toward a net zero future in Buckinghamshire.
The successful candidate will: manage the contract with our managing agent; work with the Dept. for Energy Security & Net Zero to fulfil all reporting requirements for the project, work with the RISE support service to enable successful delivery, carry out project management activities including reporting to the project board, manage the £3m budget with robust financial oversight and ensure that data is handled appropriately.
This is an opportunity to make a difference, gain experience of delivering a large scale retrofit project and contribute to our mission to deliver a local response to the global climate change challenge. If you are excited by this position and feel like you could play a key role in bringing our ambitions to fruition, then we would love to hear from you!
About us
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.
The Council’s was adopted in 2021 and includes 60 separate actions to mitigate and adapte to climate change in Buckinghamshire. The Principal Climate Change Officer will lead on projects to enable the planning and delivery of the infrastructure needed to support the transition to a low carbon energy system. They will work with colleagues from planning policy to develop a new Bucks wide local plan with key focus on sustainability and will lead on projects with the GSE Net Zero Hub delivering funding for retrofit of energy inefficient homes.
About the role
The Council’s was adopted in 2021 and includes 60 separate actions to mitigate and adapte to climate change in Buckinghamshire. The Principal Climate Change Officer will lead on projects to enable the planning and delivery of the infrastructure needed to support the transition to a low carbon energy system. They will work with colleagues from planning policy to develop a new Bucks wide local plan with key focus on sustainability and will lead on projects with the GSE Net Zero Hub delivering funding for retrofit of energy inefficient homes.
Any-Desk:
As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.
About you
1. Substantial experience (ideally 5 years) in the field of building decarbonisation, particularly domestic property sustainable energy projects; with excellent knowledge of sustainable energy technologies and the role they play in whole house retrofit planning. Able to provide examples of projects worked on.
2. Experience of contributing to the development of procedures / service policies / strategies.
3. Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and negotiating skills, with experience of resolving escalated / complex customer queries.
4. Authority and credibility to build relationships influence and engage successfully with colleagues, partners and customers at all levels in complex or politically sensitive situations.
5. Experienced project manager with an excellent understanding of project management methodologies and systems. Able to provide and articulate examples of project management best practice from own work.
6. Excellent planning and organisational skills, to manage a range of complex activities and to achieve given targets and objectives.
7. Excellent research and analysis skills demonstrating evidence of the ability to identify and diagnose complex problems/issues and develop innovative solutions.
8. Good ICT skills including use of standard Microsoft applications and specialist systems.
9. Excellent time management skills to manage a complex workload prioritise and set deadlines and cope with conflicting and changing demands.
10. Experience of preparing and publishing invitations to tender/quote and awarding and managing contracts
11. Experience of managing large budgets
12. Experience of securing and managing grant funding
13. Proven track record of using initiative, strategic and political awareness in problem solving and decision making.
14. Experience of co-ordinating partnership working. Experience of representing the work area externally.
15. Excellent knowledge of how effective climate change mitigation and adaptation can be delivered through the planning process.