Project Manager - Heat & Energy Networks
Contract Term: Permanent
Location: London
Closing date: 20th June 2019
Salary: Commensurate with experience
About the role:
We are now looking to expand our in-house team with an exciting new Project Manager role.
This role will involve working closely with Local Authority clients, and with in-house experts at the Carbon Trust, and external partners (such as financial, legal or technical consultants), to deliver consultancy or project management based contracts, primarily related to Detailed Project Development / Outline Business Case development for heating or cooling networks.
The successful candidate will take an active role in business development, including leading and contributing to tender responses, and development new relationships with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), Local Authorities, private developers, universities and hospitals. This may include contributing to innovative thinking around the accelerated development and delivery of district heating and cooling in the UK and overseas, and the development of new services and thought leadership to further support our clients and address persistent market failures.
Our dedicated team provides strategic guidance and support across a broad number of areas including:
• Project management • Engineering and technology support • Financial modelling • Stakeholder management and communications • Business model and commercial advice• Planning policy support • Compliance and procurement
About us
The Carbon Trust's mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low carbon economy. We are independent experts on carbon reduction and resource efficiency, who reinvest surpluses from group commercial activities into our mission.
The Carbon Trust provides innovative advice to governments and businesses around the world to support the global transition to a low carbon economy. We work closely with decision makers and implementers in key institutions in the UK and across multiple emerging and developing countries on low-carbon finance, programmes, policy and technology.
Main duties and responsibilities:
• Taking the role of Project Manager for key stages of project development, or consultancy contracts.• Leading on stakeholder engagement, and acting as client representative with prospective customers, local authority leaders, and other key stakeholders.• Developing tender specifications and running competitions for specialist support (technical, commercial, financial, legal etc.).• Contributing to and leading client workshops, which help local authorities determine their role in the delivery of heat network schemes and shape a project that delivers against strategic objectives.• Capacity building and knowledge transfer to up-skill local authority staff and help prepare them for project delivery.• Quality assuring the outputs (technical reports, financial models etc.) of specialist consultants.• Writing project development plans, stakeholder engagement plans, progress reports etc. for Local Government clients.• Developing and presenting HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases to Local Authority senior leaders, and securing buy in.• Delivering ad hoc advice to clients.• Working closely with government, industry, funders and interest groups to develop new propositions and inform the Carbon Trust's ongoing work in this field.
Key skills we are looking for:
Essential:
• Good working knowledge of the project development process for Local Government led district heating and cooling schemes, with a background in one or more of the key areas as they relate to district heating/cooling:• Engineering and technology • Financial modelling • Stakeholder management and communications • Planning policy support • Business model and commercial advice• Compliance and procurement• Project management• Strong and demonstrable project management skills.• Track-record of leading and developing customer relationships.• A good working knowledge of decision making and business case development in Local Government.• A demonstrable commitment to the Carbon Trust's mission.
Desirable:
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.• Track-record of advising public sector organisations on developing and implementing energy/low carbon/infrastructure projects.• Understanding of the evolving finance and ESCo market for heat networks / energy projects.• Understanding of the policy and regulatory context for decentralised energy.• Good working knowledge of financial models and/or commercial structures for heat networks or related infrastructure.• Experience of running or supporting procurement processes, including the preparation of tender documents for low-carbon or infrastructure projects• We would welcome candidates from a broad range of backgrounds including from consultancy, project developers / ESCo's or Local Government.
Salary & Benefits:
We offer a competitive salary and a performance based bonus. Our hours are 37.5 per week with 28 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and a generous pension scheme.
Our head office is in London, close to Blackfriars and Waterloo stations, we offer travel card loans, a cycle to work scheme, company away days and a 24-hour Employee Assistance Helpline.
Joining the Carbon Trust provides an opportunity to work alongside some of the leading practitioners in the low carbon arena so if you are excited by this opportunity and would like to join us please click the apply button.
We are an equal opportunities employer, value diversity in our workforce and make our decisions based on your skills and experience. We can only accept applications from those who can prove their eligibility to work in the UK. No agencies or publications.
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