* 17.07.2025
* Energy Saving Trust
* Flexible within the UK
Closing Date: 08:00 am (BST), 28 July 2025
Position Ref: EM 1390
Location: Flexible within the UK. Home-based, blended or fully office based (from our offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh or London).
Hours: Available part-time (minimum 16 hours), in a job share or Full-time (see ‘Flexible working’)
Salary: £60,000 – £65,000 per annum (depending on experience) Part-time or job share salary calculated pro rata.
The team
This is an exciting opportunity to join Energy Saving Trust’s growing international team working to develop and deliver our global portfolio of work.
Working closely with the Head of International, Senior Programme Manager and wider energy access team you’ll lead the development and support the delivery of our energy access strategy.
Together with the Senior Programme Manager, you’ll co-lead the Strategy, Policy and Partnerships work within LEIA, with a focus on strategy development and solidifying our role as a thought leader and key influencer. You’ll provide strategic direction and sector expertise to the energy access team to inform, support and guide programme delivery, ensuring a cross-workstream effort towards the achievement of overarching goals. Any you’ll lead the delivery of a range of strategic projects and stakeholder coordination activities.
Working with colleagues and partners you’ll lead the development of innovative and distinctive concepts and support fundraising efforts with a focus on initiatives that respond to needs, add value and deliver impact. You’ll nurture key stakeholder relationships and build and cultivate strategic partnerships to realise our strategic goals within and across key sectors, including energy, agriculture and humanitarian.
You’ll be an ambassador for Energy Saving Trust work, both internally and externally, working with colleagues to build our profile and position us for future growth.
What you’ll bring
* You’re values driven – you want and need to work for a cause that you believe in. And you’re passionate about tackling the climate emergency and energy inequality.
* You have a strategic mindset, can analyse and solve complex problems and present and deliver workable solutions. You’re self-motivated, able to prioritise your own work and possess a can-do attitude, a hunger to learn and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* You have a collaborative spirit and an ability to inspire and manage joint working in complex, multi-disciplinary teams, in partnership with others. You’ve worked with or for major international donor funds, have a track record of delivering results and can manage a number of projects and tasks in parallel effectively.
* You have a deep knowledge of off- and weak-grid appliance technologies, market barriers and solutions in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia and a good understanding of international energy / climate policy, (Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Climate Agreement), regulations, delivery and funding landscapes.
* You have an established network of key stakeholder relationships in relevant sectors, including donors, investors, programme implementers, private sector actors and academia, and a proven ability to build, nurture and influence relationships at a senior level.
* You have experience of realising new opportunities and fundraising from international donors. You understand the challenges that exist and possess a creative flair for designing high-impact initiatives to overcome them, in partnership with others.
* You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and like your work to be collaborative and fun! You’re prepared for regular international travel, are experienced at working with diverse people from different cultures, backgrounds and fields, and comfortable working remotely, in geographically dispersed teams.
Applications close 28 July 08:00 am (BST). Interviews are intended to be held 4-6 August.
To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Please click ‘apply online’ via our recruitment portal. We will ask for your personal details, work history and a supporting statement. Applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.
In your supporting statement please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job description. Applications submitted via email or without a supporting statement will not be considered.
Reasonable adjustments:If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustmentsmade to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with recruitment@est.org.uk or call reception on +44(0)2072220101.We will do our very best to support you.
Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.
We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.
Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
Diversity and inclusion
Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusiveand equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support tobe their best.
We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.
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