Energy & Retrofit Advisors x7

Groundwork are recruiting for 7 Energy and Retrofit Advisors, one for each of the major local
authorities.

Energy & Retrofit Advisors

Salary: £24,735 – £27,338 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract: Initially fixed term to March 2025 with potential to be extended

Location: Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside, Newcastle, South Tyneside,
Durham or Northumberland

About us

Groundwork works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges
they face. We provide training and create jobs, reduce energy use and waste, re-connect people
with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step we’ll go on changing places and
changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape
its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.

About the role

Advisors will provide energy advice and raise awareness of domestic retrofit, supporting
increased retrofit awareness and activity as well as working alongside staff within Local
Authorities to develop and deliver projects to engage our communities and stimulate retrofit
activity across the region. Energy and Retrofit Advisors will work closely with Groundwork
Green Doctors supporting households suffering from fuel poverty and referring them into more
specialist support where needed.

This role requires a dynamic and dedicated person who can think on their feet, someone with a
caring nature who has a strong desire for helping people and is passionate about making a
difference. You will need to be highly organised and adaptable as no two days will be the same.

As Groundwork’s Greener Living team grows, this role offers potential for extension and
progression toward a career in Energy and Retrofit Assessment.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Essentials

• Level 3 Domestic Retrofit Advice Course or willingness to undertake this within the first 3
  months of the role.
• Experience of running community events/ activities
• Highly developed communication skills
• Excellent team player
• Strong motivation and a determination to provide excellent service to customers
• Commitment to equality and diversity

It’s a unique and challenging role that gives you the chance to make a difference to people’s
lives every day.

Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 9th May 2024

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed
to our website to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We
recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great
place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants
with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young
people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a
culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at
risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and
comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and
about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our
children, young people and adults.

No agencies please.