Communities Project Manager

Role outline: Supporting the development of local community energy
cooperatives, and managing and delivering community engagement.

Contract: Full-time role, with probation period of 3 months.

Location: Primarily Repowering London’s office in Brixton, with some events at community venues and the
option of partial working from home. Support will be provided for remote/home working if you
need it.

Application process: CV and cover letter, and interview. If this is a barrier
to applying, please get in touch to discuss alternative options.

Contact for questions: [email protected]

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with interest and experience in community
organising, climate justice, and tackling fuel poverty. You will be coordinating and delivering
community energy engagement initiatives in London, and supporting Londoners from disadvantaged
backgrounds to participate in and benefit from the energy transition. This role involves a
mixture of project management and delivery on the ground, so there will be a lot of variety for
the right person.

Reporting to our Communities Programme Manager, you will work collaboratively across all of
Repowering London’s teams to support the development of local community energy cooperatives,
and to coordinate and deliver creative engagement activities. In practice this means:

• Managing 1-3 Community Lead(s) and/or Project Officer(s)
• Supporting the development of our local co-operatives by managing community engagement
  activities across London, working in collaboration with our Community Leads, Project Officers,
  co-operative members and directors, and volunteers
• Managing and delivering energy affordability initiatives, at least during the first year,
  with support from other Repowering London team members
• Reviewing and improving our toolkit of community engagement approaches, centring diversity
  and inclusion
• Maintaining and building strong relationships with local stakeholders, smaller funding
  partners, and volunteers
• Contributing to funding applications for community engagement and co-operative development
• Representing Repowering London and our co-operatives at local and national events

Our team works in a flexible and hybrid way, with most members of the team coming into our
office in Brixton at least 2-3 days a week. As this role involves managing others and building
relationships with community stakeholders, you will likely be expected to work in person in
Brixton or at other community venues a minimum of 2 days a week. Some evening and weekend work
will be required for community events.

About Repowering London

Repowering London is an award-winning social enterprise developing clean energy for urban
communities. A community development organisation, we enable local communities to plan, fund,
build and benefit from clean energy and energy efficiency projects across buildings. We help
people see how they can make a real difference.

We are UK’s most experienced urban community energy innovator with a successful track record of
working in partnership with major London councils and national funders for the last ten years.

Our local ownership model for clean energy is scalable and strengthens communities by
delivering clean energy hand in hand with a range of long-term local services and benefits –
from skills training to lower energy bills and generating funds for local investment.

Our vision is for every town and city in the UK to benefit from locally owned clean energy
solutions. We believe that urban buildings can be transformed into intelligent, efficient,
clean power hubs, providing substantial economic, social and environmental benefits. Energy
security can become the norm, and inequality and fuel poverty a thing of the past.

As a place to work, Repowering London has a strong culture of personal respect and integrity.
We have a talented and diverse team, and we have all made the choice to be part of positive
solutions to the collective challenges we face. We aim to create a supportive and empowering
working environment, with high levels of collaboration, team support, and personal and
professional development.

Person Specification

For this role, we will be looking for and assessing candidates on the following:

• Experience of community organising, community engagement, and/or delivering participatory
  events
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience of group facilitation
  methods
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to build relationships in diverse communities
  and with stakeholders such as local authorities and grant funders
• Experience of project monitoring and evaluation, including qualitative and quantitative
  research design and analysis
• Appetite for working in a small, dynamic team
• Ability to work flexibly, to attend community events some evenings and weekends
• Ability to work from our office in Brixton on a regular basis (with specific arrangements
  to be agreed together)
• Familiarity with Microsoft tools or similar, and familiarity with or willingness and
  ability to learn other digital collaboration tools including Notion, Hubspot, Canva, and social
  media platforms
• We will require an enhanced DBS check

The following are not essential for the role, but would be useful:

• Experience of line management
• Experience working or volunteering in the non-profit or social enterprise sectors,
  including experience of securing and reporting on grant funding
• Experience of working with local authorities or other public and voluntary sector partners
• Experience of planning and facilitating participatory processes, such as co-design or
  participatory action research
• Understanding of the energy sector, fuel poverty, and climate justice topics
• Ideally lives or has roots in South London
• Lived experience of energy system failures and/or socioeconomic inequality

Repowering London’s Employee Value Proposition

At Repowering London we want everyone to feel valued and to have the opportunity to develop
skills and experience. We offer a supportive and flexible working environment, and work-based
training to support you in your role.

Skills development is not just limited to your role at Repowering London, and as an
organisation we want to support employees to pursue opportunities outside of work which will
broaden skills and networks.

Our team is diverse, and we recognise that everyone has responsibilities and interests outside
of work, whether it is caring for family, studying, volunteering or taking time out. Repowering
London want to ensure that employees have time to spend on the things that are important to
them. Our Flexi Time Policy and Volunteering Policy provide scope for ad hoc, short-term
arrangements, and our Unpaid Leave Policy provides an option for those who need to take time
away from work for an extended period. We operate a Time Off in Lieu policy for any evening or
weekend work.

How to apply

Please send your CV and a cover letter outlining how you meet the person specification above
via email, to [email protected], by 23.59 on
14th June 2024. If this is a barrier to applying please get in touch to discuss alternative
options. We will acknowledge all applications for the role.

We will hold interviews for shortlisted candidates from the week of 24th June 2024.

We reserve the right to end the recruitment process early.

Repowering London is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless
of their background. We value diversity and recognise that accessing employment has different
challenges for different people. We also know that some voices and perspectives are
particularly underrepresented in the environment and energy sectors. We encourage applications
from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people who identify as having a disability;
people from the LGBT+ community; and people who identify as working class (or have done in the
past). If you would like to have an informal chat before applying, please get in touch – we
would be very happy to talk to you.