Sustainability Manager Social Housing covering North West, North East & Yorkshire
Prosper Recruitment are working in partnership with a multidisciplinary, purpose-driven organisation delivering sustainable energy, infrastructure, and built-environment solutions across the UK. They combine engineering excellence with a strong focus on environmental stewardship, social impact, and responsible governance to help clients decarbonise operations, improve resilience, and unlock long-term value for stakeholders. Our clients portfolio spans energy generation and resilience projects, net-zero retrofit programmes, and circular economy initiatives. They are committed to people, performance, and planet, and we seek to embed sustainability into every facet of our business operations and client delivery. Due to growth plans they are now seeking a passionate Sustainability Manager for the North of England.
Responsibilities:
Overseeing the successful development and design of Retrofit and Decarbonisation projects
Provide advice and support to operational teams on sustainability and Retrofit matters
Assisting site teams with the delivery of fabric upgrades, energy efficiency measures and microgeneration works.
Understand & apply the range of current and proposed sustainability related such as PAS2035, PAS2030 and Building Regulations
Maintain and build relationships with clients, consultants and subcontractors both internal and external
Generate regular Client progress reports for presentation to Clients
Support with internal and external reporting of our sustainability performance and progress
Identify sources of grant funding to support property retrofit and improvement projects
Assist with bids and tenders to provide the relevant support on sustainable projects
Develop case studies, presentations and bulletins to promote, educate and raise awareness across the business of the impact of emerging climate, carbon and environmental issues
Ability to balance competing priorities from a range of stakeholders using a high degree of tact.
Engaging with a range of key stakeholders including contractors, clients, regulatory bodies, to help drive performance ensuring best practice is shared across the business and project at all levels
Essential Skills:
Strong, proven project management experience
Have experience of energy efficiency retrofit, preferably gained within a social housing environment
Have an understanding of the impact of energy efficiency retrofit on residential properties, residents and communities
Strong knowledge of current environment and sustainability issues
Confident & Competent in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook
Good interpersonal and strong communication skills
Excellent writing and presentation skills
Strong time management skills, allowing switching between a variety of tasks and meeting a combination of daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
Must be analytical and Problem Solving with enthusiasm to enhance, improve, optimise, streamline.
A flexible, self-motivating and agile attitude, allowing you to respond to client needs.
Meticulous attention to detail and precise record keeping skills
Build strong relationships with colleagues, mentoring and motivating, creating a team spirit, encouraging them to be at their best
Ability to influence different departments to suggest, implement and track more efficient processes.
Desirable Skills:
Hold a level 5 qualification in retrofit coordination or equivalent.
Have/gain experience in identifying, securing and administering grant funding for energy efficiency retrofit
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