Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary
£36,075 per annum

About the Role
The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) is seeking a confident and adaptable Project Manager (Maternity Cover) to lead and deliver a varied portfolio of community-based energy and climate projects. Initially, the role will focus on coordinating work on the Energy Learning Network and supporting the networking of local community organisations that provide vital energy advice. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, confident working with a wide range of stakeholders, and have proven experience managing multi-partner or community-based projects. You will champion the value of community-led approaches to energy and climate action.

Key responsibilities include managing projects within the LACE team, overseeing planning, promotion, budgeting, financial management, funder liaison, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation. You will manage finances and resources for events, training, analysis, grant schemes, stakeholder engagement, community climate action, youth work, and support for local authorities. The role involves line management of 1-2 junior team members and contributing to team wellbeing by supporting colleagues and proactively addressing project-related issues.

You will communicate project outputs effectively to internal teams and external stakeholders, oversee promotion and marketing in collaboration with the Communications team, and represent CSE at external events such as webinars, meetings, and conferences. Building and maintaining strong relationships with funders, strategic partners, community groups, local authorities, voluntary sector associations, housing associations, and youth groups is essential. You will also provide expertise to deliver projects successfully and contribute to upskilling CSE staff and capacity building of external stakeholders in areas such as community-led sustainability initiatives, community renewables, community engagement, resilience, and energy efficiency.

This is a fixed 1-year contract role with a comprehensive benefits package including 25 days paid holiday plus statutory holidays, subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash Plan, retail discounts, discounted breakdown cover, and paid fees and expenses for relevant training courses.

Experience
- Proven experience managing projects and project teams, including financial processes, funder liaison, adaptive management, learning, communication, and reporting.
- Experience working closely with or within a local community-focused organisation or a UK local authority.
- Experience working within a matrix management system across multiple projects.
- Successful development and writing of funding proposals and tender responses.
- Excellent budget management and donor reporting skills.

About you
- Confident and adaptable with excellent communication skills.
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Committed to championing community-led approaches to energy and climate action.
- Able to contribute positively to team wellbeing and support colleagues.
- Comfortable representing the organisation at external events and presenting project outputs.

Qualifications
- GCSE or O’ level Maths and English.
- Evidence of eligibility to work in the UK will be required if invited to interview.