Sustainability and Energy Officer

Warwick District Council is searching for an enthusiastic skilled with a ardour for sustainability and a want to play a key position regionally within the transition to scale back carbon emissions to ship net-zero carbon improvement.

We’re searching for a post-graduate in a related topic additionally with post-qualification expertise of working in related roles. The postholder ought to have a powerful understanding of vitality/carbon within the constructed atmosphere (each operational and embodied carbon) and data of the planning system and net-zero carbon necessities.

Warwick District sees tackling local weather change as a essential and important and has already made vital progress on implementing its Local weather Motion Programme. Within the Council’s lately adopted Company Technique, ‘Low value, low carbon vitality throughout the district’ was recognized as certainly one of 3 strategic priorities of the Council.

The Council has produced a Internet Zero-Carbon Growth Plan Doc, to require new buildings to be net-zero carbon in operation and this put up is essential to the implementation of these insurance policies and the success of the DPD. The Council can also be working with Stratford-on-Avon District Council on a joint South Warwickshire Native Plan and one of many 5 overarching rules of that Plan is ‘A local weather resilient and internet zero carbon South Warwickshire’.

You’ll lead on the evaluation of vitality statements and different technical data submitted in reference to planning and associated functions to hunt to adjust to sustainability and internet zero carbon insurance policies and steerage, and to offer recommendation and technical experience to develop planning insurance policies and steerage to assist the profitable implementation of the council’s internet zero carbon targets.

You will have to be self-motivated and enthusiastic, with acceptable {qualifications}, expertise and related technical data to allow you to take a number one position on this vital space. You will have to have robust communication abilities and be capable of work to deadlines.

The put up holder will likely be a key a part of the council’s Local weather Change staff however will work intently with colleagues elsewhere within the Council, most notably inside Growth Administration and Planning Coverage.

The intention is for the postholder to work predominantly from residence nonetheless, it’s a requirement to attend our places of work or websites inside Warwick District and Stratford District owing to work on a joint South Warwickshire Native Plan, as required. Any prices for journey from residence to the workplace will likely be met by the profitable candidate. Nevertheless, workplace and hybrid working are additionally accessible.

Should you want to talk about the place in additional element earlier than submitting your software, please contact Dave Barber (Programme Director for Local weather Change) on [email protected] / 07879 840262 or Andrew Cornfoot (Planning Coverage and Main Websites Supply Supervisor) on [email protected] / 01926 456203.