Energy Officer (Internal applicants only)

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

The post holder will provide engaging advice and guidance to homeowners, landlords and residents on affordable warmth and energy efficiency funding opportunities. This includes advice in relation to grant funding available, eligible energy efficient measures and planned projects/works programmes in the North Northamptonshire Council area.

The post has been created to support the Council’s objectives to reduce C02 emissions from private sector housing stock and reduce the number of fuel poor households living in North Northants, by improving residents’ access to energy efficiency grants. It also contributes to the Council’s Carbon Management Plan and Climate Change Strategy. 
For further details please contact Amy Plank Amy.Plank@northnorthants.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will be the central point of contact for private owners, residential landlords and residents across North Northamptonshire Council; to support and assist residents to maximise available energy efficient grants.

Principal responsibilities

1. Identifying fuel poor households and develop data sets to support the development of the Council’s energy projects and associated marketing, to effectively alleviate fuel poverty.
2. Project management of energy efficiency grant schemes with external stakeholders, with full responsibility of all procurement and legal requirements, including the production of assessments needed under CIA, DPIA and ESA/EIA. The postholder will be required to work with legal, procurement and data protection colleagues to ensure all contracts, memorandums of understanding and antiauthority agreements meet the Council’s policies, procedures and legal obligations. 
3. To work with third party suppliers and contractors to undertake some of its function in the administration of energy projects.
4. Support (in)direct marketing to eligible residents, developing marketing material and social media campaigns with the Council’s Communication Team. Attending resident engagement events to raise awareness of energy efficiency schemes. Arranging joint face to face marketing events with energy partners that may result in instore stands with supermarkets, shopping centres or at community events. 
5. Be single point of contact for residents, directing them to the most appropriate grant and supporting their application(s). The postholder will be required to have extensive knowledge of available grants and the various application routes for energy schemes. 
6. Develop and maintain an extensive, well detailed, section on the Council’s website to allow the community to understand our policies and targets around domestic energy. 
7. To assist in the regulation of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and any associated project work, to develop a strategy for the Council to support landlords to meet the requirements of the anticipated increase of the minimum requirement. 
8. Work in partnership with West Northamptonshire Council to develop Northamptonshire wide projects, to support consistent delivery across the county and to attend any other partnership meetings/networking events. 

About you

We are looking for a motivated, suitably experienced and professional individual to assist the Private Sector Housing service with providing residents of North Northamptonshire with home energy solutions. You will be educated to Level 6 (Degree Level), in any subject and have strong project management skills and experience. You will need to have knowledge of building design and energy efficiency retrofit options. 

We are seeking a candidate with good inter-personal and communication skills, who has a strong track record of providing high quality, effective and customer focussed service.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)