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Form of workWestminster City Council
Sustainability Energy Officer
Reference: WCC616650
Salary range: £40,005 to £43,824 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check
Closing date: 5 July 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 8 July 2024
Contact details for Informal discussion: John Hamilton, Head of Sustainability and Data Insight, via email: JHAMILTON1@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF TIFFENY’S POWERFUL VOICE
At Westminster City Council, we don’t just listen to the voices and experiences of our residents – we listen to our people too. Tiffeny is a single mum whose young son has ADHD and before joining our team, she never thought she’d find a job that gave her flexibility and freedom to support her son’s needs. As a neurodivergent woman herself, she also never expected to be part of a team that not only supports her needs, but actively celebrates them – where people encourage her to be her true self. And that’s what she found here at the City of Westminster.
Working as an Engagement Officer Within the corporate property team means that she gets to meet people from all walks of life within the community supporting the development of positive change, especially being the voice for young people where it matters – in education, training, or employment. Her experiences and her amazing ability to relate to others means that within the first few months of joining our team, she’d already made a huge impact on things like accessibility in the Borough. Tiffeny feels heard and that’s because we know how important it is to listen.
The Role:
As a Sustainability Energy Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to people and places across Westminster. Tackling climate change is one of our biggest priorities. It affects us all, and we’re committed to doing all we can to reduce its effects on our residents and environments. In this role, you’ll support the delivery of our climate change strategies, leading work with the Property, Climate Emergency Programme Team, and other service areas to deliver carbon saving, climate change or sustainability schemes.
Working alongside organisations and community groups to achieve a reduction in carbon emissions, you’ll help raise the profile of carbon saving activity and initiatives across Westminster. You’ll undertake analysis of energy and cost data to support decision making and track the benefits of sustainability interventions to ensure cost effective carbon savings and deliver value for money. This might include through procurement, commissioning work, and evaluating utility and sustainability contracts.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
An established professional with experience of multi-disciplinary property project development and delivery within a large-scale organisation, you’ll have excellent scoping, planning and project management skills. You’ll have financial planning and management experience, with the ability to deliver value for money and meet tight deadlines. Capable of managing complex internal and external dependencies in an agile environment, you’ll have the ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of the council and beyond.
On a personal level, you’ll be a natural communicator with the proven ability to influence others, build team relationships, and ensure effective and collaborative stakeholder engagement. Most importantly, you’ll have a passion for sustainability and a commitment to improving the built environment and the lives and experiences of Westminster residents.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
Closing date: 5 July 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 8 July 2024
Contact details for Informal discussion: John Hamilton, Head of Sustainability and Data Insight, via email: JHAMILTON1@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK
