Head of Housing Retrofit

Job Title: Head of Housing Retrofit

Location: Bristol

Salary: £44,964 to £53,859

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) is a Bristol-based national charity that supports people and organisations across the UK to tackle the climate emergency and end the suffering caused by cold homes. We do this by sharing our knowledge, practical experience and policy insights.

The Role

We are recruiting a Head of Retrofit to lead our team of 17 staff. In 2022-23, across all our work we supported the installation of over 2,000 measures leading to 5,000,000 kWh of energy saved per year.

We need a dynamic leader who’s able to build on this strong foundation and work with others collaboratively sustain and grow our retrofit services as well as ensuring CSE continues to deliver a great service for the households we support.

Responsibilities include

• To develop and maintain relationships both locally and nationally to create and realise funding opportunities to sustain and grow our retrofit work and impact, in line with CSE’s strategic objectives.
• To oversee key aspects of retrofit delivery in the Household Energy Services (HES) portfolio, including resource utilisation and workload planning, project monitoring and evaluation
• To work closely with the Head of Advice Services to ensure the whole team remain utilised and are sufficiently supported to deliver their work and reach their potential.
• Oversight of the use of time management tools, such as our staff planning software, to ensure that organisational planning systems are up to date.
• To take overall responsibility for the quality of outputs of the HES team’s retrofit work and its timely reporting to project partners and funders.
• To support the HR function and senior managers within the HES team to recruit new members of the retrofit team and provide clear pathways for their future role development.
• To work with the Director of HES to identify and create new opportunities for CSE to deliver our strategic objectives in relation to retrofit and to develop viable, deliverable projects to realise these opportunities.

Ideal Candidate

• Good working knowledge of a range of energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.
• Extensive experience of delivering retrofit project services or programmes i.e. energy efficiency works or low carbon technologies.
• Knowledge of the policy framework and funding landscape for retrofit programmes i.e. national home energy efficiency policy, priorities for district network operators and local authority grants.
• Previous experience of working with local building supply chains, i.e. existing support networks, trade bodies and quality standards
• Good negotiation skills with ability to work with a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent reporting and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience of writing effective technical or non-technical summaries of complex issues

Benefits

• 33 days paid holiday per year including 8 bank holidays.
• Generous ethical company pension scheme (8% from employer, 6% from employee) to which the post-holder will be automatically enrolled
• Salary sacrifice childcare vouchers
• Subsidised bike purchase arrangements through the cycle to work scheme
• Training and study time is given to complete the NEA City & Guilds 6176 in Energy Awareness.

Please click on the APPLY button to complete the first stage of the application process by sending your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of Director of Sustainable Housing Upgrades, Chief Energy Efficiency Officer, Manager of Residential Retrofit Programs, Head of Green Housing Initiatives, Vice President of Housing Modernization, Chief Retrofit Strategist, Director of Residential Energy Retrofitting, Sustainable Housing Transformation Lead, Residential Retrofit Project Manager, Housing Sustainability Director, Chief Retrofit Architect, Head of Residential Energy Conservation, Energy Retrofit Program Coordinator, Sustainable Housing Development Manager, Retrofit Implementation Lead may also be considered for this role.