Events And Community Officer - Ecosystem

Energise Sussex Coast is a community benefit society. Our mission is to work together to end fuel poverty and protect the environment through community led local green power & energy saving schemes.

We are looking for an energetic and creative person to organise and deliver a calendar of engaging and inspiring energy and climate themed Events and outreach activities across East Sussex. The events will cover the following themes: saving and sharing energy, insulation, solar and batteries, renewable heat, funding energy efficiency measures, creating healthy and mould-free homes etc.

About you

You are committed to getting the information out there about the transition to zero carbon in a way that is engaging and brings communities together.

You have experience of organising events or other engagement activities.  You bring a proactive attitude to the role. You are confident and self driven but enjoy working in cooperation to achieve common goals and to increase your impact. You are a creative thinker with some great ideas about how to engage communities in the transition to a fossil free future and ensure that no one is left behind.

You are a great advocate and because you believe in community energy are happy to promote our services to other organisations and groups with the aim of increasing the number of residents we can support with energy advice and who are able to engage in the transition to a more sustainable future.

You have a high standard of written and verbal communication skills. You are organised with an attention to detail and respect for the importance of collecting data to enable monitoring and evaluation of the project.  You want to improve the events by collecting and listening to feedback and implementing improvements. You value the input of our service users, volunteers and staff team into the design of the events programme.

Responsibilities

-        Work in collaboration with the ESC team and stakeholders to design a programme of inspiring energy and climate themed events in Hastings, Rother, Eastbourne, and Wealden, reaching a total of 1000 residents across the year.

-        Create engagement opportunities for your team at the Events and activities of other organisations and local groups by networking and working with the Communications and Marketing person to promote our services.

-        Find interesting speakers and organisations to participate in our events.

-        Create public events for our No One Left Behind project, finding new, exciting ways to engage the public in conversation about energy and climate topics.

-        Manage the administration and logistics of the events, including room bookings, ticket booking processes, etc.

-        Look for opportunities to invite our funder along to Events and participate in the activities.

-        Manage relationships with staff team and volunteer Energy Champions on local events.

-        Create event plans and risk assessments for each event.

-        Work with the Marketing and Communications Officer and local volunteers to plan PR and promotion of events to agreed timelines.

-        Create and work to agreed budgets.

-        Ensure you are collecting the data needed to monitor and evaluate the project.

-        Create inclusivity in the event registration and attendance experience to support people with a variety of needs.

-        Ensure events feed into the wider work and services of Energise Sussex Coast.

-        Provide event reports to manager detailing the number of attendees, write-up of the event, and feedback.

-        Provide general assistance with ESC Events and projects as required.

-        Adhere to Energise Sussex Coast’s policies around safeguarding, data protection, etc.

-        Attend monthly in-person team meetings in Hastings.

Key Details

•       Hours: 30 hours a week, flexible working. Will include some evening and weekend work.
•       Job location: Home based (or optional hot desk in Hastings) with regular events in Hastings, Rother, Eastbourne and Wealden. Please note, travel costs to the events will only be paid from a local East Sussex postcode, we would not be able to cover the cost of travelling to events from London or further afield.

Criteria

Essential

1.     Professional experience or a personal commitment to the pressing importance of the transition to a sustainable, fossil fuel free future

2.     Experience of organising events or community engagement.

3.     Experience or an understanding of the importance of quality data collection, monitoring and evaluation, for example collecting and analysing event feedback

4.     Effective administration and organisational skills, with good time management and high attention to detail

5.     Good written and verbal communication skills

6.     Experience working in a team for shared objectives and self-motivated to work independently.

Desirable

7.     A qualification in a relevant field: events, marketing or climate/ energy

8.     Experience of working with volunteers

To apply

Please send the following to apply:

1.  A copy of your CV

2 . A covering letter (of around a page or two) of how you meet the essential and desirable criteria. 

Please note - if you are offered the job you will need to provide two references including one from your last employer.

Interviews in person on Weds 22nd May

Inclusion and equality of opportunity

If there's anything you need to help you apply for the job - whether that's help with the job application or alternatives to interview or particular requirements for interview access please let us know and we will make alternative arrangements.