Energy & Retrofit Advisor

Our client, a social regeneration charity, has been assembling a team of 7 Energy and Retrofit Advisors, one for each of the major local authorities in the North East.

Energy & Retrofit Advisor
Salary: £24,735 - £27,338 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Initially fixed term to June 2025 with potential to be extended
Location: Covering Newcastle Local Authority Area. Flexible base locations across the north of the region

About the Employer

This charity works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face. They provide training and create jobs, reduce energy use and waste, re-connect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step they’ll go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.

About the role

This role will form part of the charity's wider fuel poverty and climate change programme known as Green Doctor. Advisors will provide energy advice and raise awareness of domestic retrofit, supporting increased retrofit awareness and activity as well as working alongside staff within Local Authorities to develop and deliver projects to engage communities and stimulate retrofit activity across the region. Energy and Retrofit Advisors will work closely with their Green Doctors supporting households suffering from fuel poverty and referring them into more specialist support where needed.

This role requires a dynamic and dedicated person who can think on their feet, someone with a caring nature who has a strong desire for helping people and is passionate about making a difference. You will need to be highly organised and adaptable as no two days will be the same.

If you have qualifications in this field we would love to hear from you. If you don’t have previous technical knowledge, don’t worry, this is not essential - as we will train our staff in building retrofit and energy efficiency. It’s more important you have energy, a willingness to undertake training and like meeting people.

As their Greener Living team grows, this role offers potential for extension and progression toward a career in Energy and Retrofit Assessment.

Essentials

• Level 3 Domestic Retrofit Advice Course
  or willingness to undertake this within the first 3 months of the role.
• Experience of running community events/ activities
• Highly developed communication skills
• Excellent team player
• Strong motivation and a determination to provide excellent service to customers
• Commitment to equality and diversity

This is a unique and challenging role that gives you the chance to make a difference to people’s lives every day.

Closing date: This employer is recruiting on a rolling basis, with applications closing at midnight on Sunday 31st August 2024.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home:
Our client wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your differences and together everyone will make the charity a special and great place to work.

As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

This employer ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.

No agencies please.