Senior Project Officer Climate Emergency

15 hours ago

Wokingham, United Kingdom DG Partnership Ltd Full time

**Senior Project Officer Climate Emergency
- £38,890 per annum (Grade 9)
- Wokingham**

**The Role**

Are you an innovative and highly motivated individual who is experienced in working with multiple stakeholders in the private and public sector?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team, committed to supporting the council’s response to the climate emergency, in a newly created position.

Wokingham Borough Council is seeking to recruit a highly motivated professional with excellent communication and leadership skills to help speed up the delivery of the Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) and wider climate change agenda.

**Key Responsibilities**

The key responsibilities of a Senior Project Officer Climate Emergency include, but are not limited to:

- Project managing a suite of projects presented in the CEAP, coordinate working groups and initiatives and support officers to assess alignment of priorities to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.
- To proactively and collaboratively work with communities, organisations, and other stakeholders to deliver projects at a neighbourhood level.
- Engaging with a range of third-party organisations to develop partnerships and take forward collaborative work to develop methodologies, approaches, and improve data availability to support implementation of net zero actions and strategies.
- To keep abreast of legislation, national and regional policy and best practice relating to climate change. Help support dynamic and meaningful decision making, by drafting briefing notes and reports for senior officers, Cabinet members and other key audiencesto ensure a shared understanding on key issues.
- To ensure everything the council does has the climate emergency at its heart.
- Writing reports, climate action strategies and delivery plans

**The Company**

Wokingham Borough Council is the unitary authority covering Wokingham, Woodley, Wargrave, Hurst, Arborfield, Shinfield, Earley and surrounds. The authority covers areas as diverse as planning, education, bin collection, trading standards and much more. Theyare based at the Civic Offices in Wokingham.

**The Person**

The key skills and qualities of a Senior Project Officer are:

- A degree or equivalent in a relevant field, such as energy, built environment and/or engineering.
- Have a proven track record of planning and delivering project work using agile project management methodology. The post holder should demonstrate excellent project and performance management skills.
- Knowledge of current climate change and sustainability policy issues affecting local authorities, relevant legislation, and statutory duties
- Knowledge of producing and implementing technical solutions to decarbonise buildings, improve energy efficiency and install renewables
- Successful experience of working in an environment where influence, negotiation and persuasion are significant levers
- Experienced communicator with excellent written, verbal and presentation skills and an ability to interpret and communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience
- Ability to use Microsoft suite

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