Sustainability and Energy Manager Full Time Temporary

Sustainability and Energy Manager needed in Southwark, £27.22ph PAYE – Reference: RQ1204826

To lead, manage and develop all aspects of the procurement of energy, including tendering, letting and management of contracts, and act as the Client’s strategic energy market expert for gas and electricity purchasing, delivering best value for tenants, schools and the operational estate. To support the delivery of a capital programme to reduce operational emissions across the client’s estate. This incorporates the management of budgets, coordination of resources, project identification, procurement, installation and future monitoring. Contribute to the development of a pipeline of carbon reduction projects to enable the client to maximise the use of available funding. Take ownership of the clients’s emission’s reporting ensuring, that best practice is followed across scope 1, 2 and 3 data and contribute to the delivery of projects within the clients Climate Action Plan. To provide members and senior officers with strategic and policy advice in relation to energy management, sustainability, carbon reduction and climate change matters.

1. Lead on the procurement and contract management of the clients’s corporate energy contracts (>£18 million pa) and ensure the contracts deliver the best possible value for money for the client while exploring options to improve sustainability.
2. Work with the External Opportunities Manager to identify and secure external and internal funding for existing and future capital energy efficiency and/or renewable energy programmes, and where required prepare detailed financial returns for internal and external funding agencies.
3. Lead on the collation and management of a large and complex energy data set from across the clients’s estate, provide consumption and trend analysis and work with the clients’s energy contractors to ensure there is a robust bill reconciliation process in place. Ensure data analysis feeds into the council’s annual reporting of emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3).
4. Oversee the expansion of the clients’s renewable energy generation and district heating portfolio, including responsibility for negotiating and acquiring external and internal funding. Responsible for managing all relevant liaisons with central Government and appropriate agencies, and administration of all energy generation and associated revenue.
5. Respond to enquiries and supply expert advice and complex data to senior management, councillors and other departments and external agencies when required. This includes preparing gateway, cabinet and technical reports and analysing complex data relating to energy and utility consumption.
6. Work with businesses, social and private landlords to reduce energy consumption in the borough, reduce fuel poverty and influence behavioural change outside.
7. Maintain an up-to date expert knowledge of legislative, technical and policy changes in the fields of energy generation, renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change. Keep abreast of national and international political and financial developments that will affect the global energy markets, ensuring any relevant statutory requirements are met.
8. To oversee a programme of low carbon capital funding schemes, and support colleagues with the delivery of capital projects across the operational, leisure and schools portfolio. Maximise use of available funding to reduce operational emissions, including the Climate Capital Fund and Green Buildings Fund.
9. This project role includes coordinating and project managing teams from various departments, consultants and contractors, conducting project appraisals and feasibility studies, commissioning designs and/or studies into proposed schemes and evaluating proposals, and all aspects of procurement including preparing client briefs and tender specifications for specialist services.
10. Use, interpretation and analysis of energy consumption data and the preparation of necessary briefing reports. Ensure performance reports to relevant departments, including the corporate centre and members, are maintained and updated as required.
11. Support with innovation and the delivery of other climate and energy projects as required. This could include local area energy planning, power purchase agreements and solar farms.
12. Represent the Client, Climate Change Team, Environment, Neighbourhoods and Growth Department at internal and external meetings or organisations, regional meetings, inquiries and other settings. Prepare and present detailed advice and reports in adherence with the best professional standards. To deputise for the Head of Service as required.
13. Actively promote equalities issues through the application of the clients’s equalities practices and procedures and in accordance with relevant legislation.

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

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