Project Assistant Salary & Grade £32,380 per annum (pay award pending) Grade 5 Location Wellington House, Leeds / Hybrid Hours Full time 37 hours per week Tenure Permanent Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share. We currently have a Project Assistant vacancy to join our Home Energy West Yorkshire team. This team is part of the Policing, Environment & Place directorate. This is your chance to play a crucial role in transforming West Yorkshire’s social housing landscape while contributing to major environmental objectives. Domestic housing in West Yorkshire is responsible for over 26% of our region’s carbon emissions and over 600,000 houses need to be retrofitted with good quality insulation and renewable sources of energy. This will reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, reduce fuel bills for the residents, alleviate fuel poverty, and make people’s homes more comfortable and healthier. If you’re eager, high-performing and willing to take on a challenge and make a lasting difference, we’d love to hear from you! Home Energy West Yorkshire is a dynamic and rapidly growing service area, established to tackle the pressing challenges of domestic retrofit. With a mission to promote, facilitate, and deliver retrofit solutions across all housing types in West Yorkshire, our team plays a critical role in ensuring that “everyone in West Yorkshire can live in a warm, comfortable, and low-carbon home.” We’re dedicated to driving impactful retrofit projects that accelerate progress, strengthen the supply chain, and foster innovation—all with the goal of reducing domestic CO2e emissions, which currently account for 30% of the region’s carbon footprint. Endorsed by the West Yorkshire Leaders as a priority workstream, alongside Mass Transit and Bus Reform, Home Energy West Yorkshire is integral to the Mayor’s commitment to “Tackle the climate emergency and protect our environment,” while also addressing the Cost of Living crisis by reducing fuel poverty. As part of the Home Energy West Yorkshire team you’ll support various colleagues across multiple projects, providing administrative support in accordance with the organisation’s Prince2 principles. Specifically, you’ll work with our Social Housing Providers to help deliver various grant funding schemes. You’ll play a key role in retrofitting social housing stock to achieve an Energy Performance Certificate C, improving residents' lives by reducing fuel bills and CO2 emissions, while contributing to the Net Zero by 2038 target. Our Offer Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including: · Work your way – From flexible and agile working options, including a generous flexi-time scheme to help you balance your personal life and career. · Time to recharge – Enjoy 28 days of annual leave (with increases based on length of service), plus all Bank Holidays. · Free greener travel across West Yorkshire – Cover your commute sustainably with unlimited free bus and rail travel using the MCard (Zones 1–5). · Secure your future – Benefit from a highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme. · Investing in you – Take advantage of fully funded professional development, regular training, and up to 3 paid volunteering days per year. · Grow with us – Incremental salary progression for most roles and annual cost of living increases. · Family first – We offer enhanced parental and bereavement leave, plus other family-friendly policies to support you when it matters most. · Your wellbeing, our priority – Access 24/7 free confidential counselling services and the Headspace app for you and up to 5 family or friends. · Modern workspace in a prime location – Work in bright, contemporary offices just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station, fully equipped with the latest tech. The Role Reporting into the Programme Coordinator, your key responsibilities will include: · Administrative Programme Support. Provide cross-project support, including scheduling meetings and boards for the Head of Service. Maintain project and financial trackers to ensure smooth delivery and contribute to overall programme success. · Technical proficiency. A strong background in Microsoft products, e.g. Excel, is necessary for analysing monthly data reports efficiently within tight deadlines. A high level of accuracy and attention to detail is required, especially when handling complex, confidential information. · Management and support of Social Housing Consortiums. Maintain strong partnerships with social housing providers by facilitating and leading monthly performance meetings, coordinating data collection and analysis, proactively managing risks, and ensuring secure handling of sensitive information. About You You will have the following key skills, attributes, education and experience: · Educated to degree level, or able to demonstrate equivalent education/experience. (Knowledge) · Practical experience supporting project delivery balancing multiple priorities. (Impact & Influence) · An excellent communicator able to produce written reports, as well as, verbally inform and influence both internal and external stakeholders (People). · Strong knowledge of MS Office package and Sharepoint (Technical). · Be pro-active, streamlining processes and forecasting issues before they reach a critical point (People) · Whilst not essential, experience or keen interest in domestic retrofit, energy efficiency, or related fields is desirable (Any other Relevant Information). To Apply If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form Further Information The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity. or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage. Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met. Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis