Energy & Retrofit Advisor

Groundwork North East and Cumbria has been assembling a team of 7 Energy and Retrofit Advisors
– one for each of the major local authorities in the North East.

Energy & Retrofit Advisor

Salary: £24,735 – £27,338 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

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

Location: Covering Newcastle Local Authority Area. Flexible base locations across the north of the
region

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

This role will form part of our wider fuel poverty and climate change programme known as Green
Doctor. 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. 

 If you have qualifications in this field we would love to hear from you. If you don’t have
previous technical knowledge, don’t worry, this is not essential – as we will train our staff
in building retrofit and energy efficiency. It’s more important you have energy, a willingness
to undertake training and like meeting people.

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

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.

Like us, you will be passionate about helping people in poverty and in fuel poverty, and about
offering energy advice to help vulnerable people keep warm over winter.

Closing date: We are recruiting on a rolling basis with applications closing
at midnight on 31st August 2024.

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

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.