Research & Evaluation Coordinator Job Description
Salary: £35,000 pro rata (£28,000 @.8 FTE)
Status: Potential for extension into a full-time contract dependent on funding
Benefits: 4% pension, 25 days annual leave (Pro Rata)
Length of contract: 8 month fixed term August 2024 to March 2025, with potential for extension
dependent on funding.
Schedule/ hours: 30 Hours per week. Provision for flexible working. Some evening or weekend
work required .
Work Location: You will have an office base at The Forum@Greenwich, Trafalgar Road, London,
SE10 9EQ provision for flexible work from home. You will be expected to work from the office
base at least one day per month.
To Apply
Please initially email us your cv, and contact details, and position applied for. You will next be asked to complete a more detailed application form. Please send your CV and details to James Bennett: [email protected]
About Selce and Repowering London
South East London Community Energy (Selce) and Repowering London are award-winning community
energy organisations. We both specialise in co-creating and delivering community-led energy and
renewable projects. We are different to ordinary businesses as we are Community Benefit
Societies, a type of co-operative social enterprise. We put people at the heart of everything
we do and care about the communities we work with and each other. This is reflected in what we
do and how we work.
We exist to ensure our communities can benefit from and participate in the development of the
energy systems of the future. We are excited to partner together for the first time to deliver
a new and innovative programme of community-led domestic retrofit.
About the Future Fit Homes project
Selce and Repowering London are partnering to deliver an innovative approach to domestic
retrofit that will insulate homes, alleviate fuel poverty and play a leading role in responding
to the climate emergency. We will implement a community-led approach to address one of the
great engineering challenges of our time – improving the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing
stock. Solving this challenge will address fuel poverty and climate change.
Our aim is to make retrofit easy to understand and access. We will provide a holistic retrofit
coordination service that can be tailored to meet the needs of all households and residents. We
will put people and residents at the heart of the process by taking a neighbourhood approach.
To begin with, we will be working in four geographical London communities: Greenwich, Lewisham,
Lambeth and Newham.
We do not work alone. Both Selce and Repowering London are part of a quiet but growing
community energy powered revolution that has been building across the UK over the last decade.
This project is only the start; our long-term ambition is to develop an ongoing service across London that can
also be replicated by community energy groups across the country. Join us for the start of this
retrofit revolution! We have a number of new roles to help us deliver this ambition – we look
forward to hearing what you can offer and how you can play a leading role.
About the role – Research Coordinator Domestic Retrofit
This is an exciting opportunity for a community-based researcher who cares about tackling
energy-related issues and working towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. We recognise
that an effective research process is a key component in delivering the roll out of at scale
domestic retrofit projects. We work with the most vulnerable in our communities to help get
installations over the line. The results and findings of this project will contribute to how
the UK approaches retrofit and energy advice going forward.
As research Coordinator, you will work with a diverse and supportive team. Ideally you will be
locally based covering Greenwich, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Newham, with a strong interest in
climate issues and community retrofit. Your role will be to implement an action research
process whereby we gather data about every aspect of the domestic retrofit advice and
implementation project on an ongoing basis and then on a quarterly basis analyse what works
well and what doesn’t work well in terms of engaging individuals and communities in retrofit.
Based on your research we’ll implement changes as we go along. Your research will feed into the
retrofit process from start to finish, working closely with the project lead, outreach
officers, retrofit assessors, retrofit coordinators, designers, installers, and contributing to
the research project. You will ensure the research aspects of the project keep to time and are
of the appropriate quality.
The project aims are to bring retrofit into the public eye, on a neighbourhood and borough-wide
level. Focussing on a neighbourhood approach to street by street and block by block retrofit.
Addressing the challenges of the need to decarbonise the UK housing stock, and provide warm,
healthy homes, and alleviate fuel poverty.
You will also work to support the ‘Greenwich and Lewisham Love Lofts’ projects whereby we are
working to communicate the benefits of loft insulation to self-funding clients and support them
to go ahead with loft insulation providing free services to support them such as a man and van
able to move the stored stuff out of the loft. Your role will be to support the team to design
research to investigate whether loft insulation acts as a motivator for whole house retrofit,
assess the impact of the project and report to the funder.
You will collaborate with the University of Sussex Energy Group EDRC- Energy Demand Research
Centre “Place-Based Retrofit Programme Case Studies” project and the funder DESNZ evaluators,
to support them in their research that investigates the effectiveness of community approaches
to retrofit.
Job description
Reporting to: Project Lead and the Project Steering Group, with research support from Selce
CEO.
Your Role
Research lead – Local Energy Advice Demonstrator project, Future Fit Homes
Other duties
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications/ Experience
Essential
Desirable
Repowering London and Selce are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to equality of
opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age,
disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race,
religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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