Key Responsibilities:

• To oversee, quality assure, and develop our energy saving projects and partnerships.
• To champion and coordinate delivery of Southmead’s Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP), working with colleagues and partners to engage residents, develop and support projects, secure funding, and ensure the plan influences the Trust’s work and future development to develop and maintain effective relationships with Trust teams and with existing partners, and to grow relationships with new stakeholders.
• To take an approach to climate, energy, and nature action which is informed by Bristol’s Just Transition Declaration principles.
• To work closely with our Community Development and Wellbeing Teams to deliver climate, energy and nature work.
• To work closely with the Communications team to produce related, and regular, online and written communications both for community and professional audiences.
• To support team managers, senior leaders, and trustees, to embed environmental sustainability in our operations, services, and projects; to provide advice, support and mentoring where appropriate.
• To develop programme resources and tools working with programme leads, and to signpost to resources where available.
• To be an active member of local and national climate networks to identify and share best practice and emerging business development opportunities. To attend training where appropriate.
• To ensure that learning from our activities and best practice from elsewhere is shared across the Trust, and more widely when appropriate.
• To collate, report, and present key performance, impact, and financial evidence as required by the Trust, partners, and funders.

General Responsibilities – All staff at Southmead Development Trust are expected to:

• Follow all Trust policies, procedures, and safeguarding requirements.
• Model our values: Welcoming, Collaborative and Resourceful.
• Work proactively, use initiative, and collaborate well with colleagues and the community.
• Maintain confidentiality, data protection standards, and a safe, inclusive environment.
• Take part in training, development, staff meetings, and occasional evening/weekend work when required.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties to support the organisation.

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• At least two years of project management or senior project coordination
• Working with communities and within community led or volunteering projects
• Delivering climate action projects that engage and help to empower residents
• Building and maintaining networks and partnerships, engaging with new and existing partners
• Co-designing and facilitating peer learning activities
• Writing and developing engaging content for a range of audiences via a variety of communications tools

Specific Skills/Knowledge

• Current sustainability issues of global, national, and local structures, and sources of information
• An understanding of climate justice
• Ability to motivate self and others, and to foster good working relationships both internally and externally
• Mentoring and motivational skills
• Ability to plan workload and deal with competing demands and time pressures
• Excellent communication skills, including writing and presenting succinct summaries of complex data and information for diverse audiences
• An enthusiasm and commitment to further develop knowledge in the field of sustainability
• Project management skills

Values and Ethos

• A genuine passion for the Trust’s mission and values
• Commitment to the delivery of high-quality services and learning from delivery
• Commitment to inclusion and teamwork
• A commitment to low-carbon ways of working

Other

• Able to work outside of normal office hours within a flexi-time/time off in lieu system
• Sympathetic to the aims and ethos of the Trust and its partners
• Willingness to undertake any training and development deemed necessary for the progress of the role
• Compliance with the Trust’s Policies and Procedures, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Data Protection, Health and Safety, and Environment

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• Successful fundraising/bid writing
• Researching, collating, and analysing data and information in this field to summarise it in an engaging way, and to produce resources
• Qualification/experience in energy advice
• Knowledge of Southmead, North Bristol or similar communities and the issues facing residents

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