Senior Consultant – Corporate Impact

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy
efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate
emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part
of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and
rewarding.

Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or
  13% (age-linked).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Private BUPA insurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three
  goodwill days over the Christmas period.
• Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.

Please see our careers page
for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to
work.

The team

The insight & evaluation team is integral to the data, research and content the Energy
Saving Trust produces. The work we do is hugely varied, from calculating the savings that can
be achieved through making energy efficiency changes, to modelling the impact of new
technologies to providing content for energy efficiency training to researching consumers
attitudes towards government policy and assessing the impact that programmes deliver.

The team work individually on projects but also work closely together sharing ideas and working
through complex problems or scenarios ensuring that knowledge sharing, and knowledge
development is at the forefront of everything we do.

Working within the team and at the Energy Saving Trust more broadly will allow you to use your
experience and skills, whilst improving your knowledge and having the space and opportunity to
grow within a friendly, supportive environment.

The role 

As part of the investment in our mission we are seeking a senior consultant. This role has been
created to support our strategic objectives of increasing our advice, information and support
services to consumers and small businesses, accelerating our progress towards becoming a
digitally led organisation and growing our impact in England.

Working closely with colleagues in the insight and evaluation team and across the business, you
will lead on collating and reporting the impact of Energy Saving Trust against its objectives.
You will also work with colleagues across the business, to identify and support the delivery of
cost-effective monitoring and evaluation methodologies for new business activity.

What you’ll do 

• Develop and implement a work plan for evaluating and reporting on Energy Saving Trust
  activities.
• Develop methodologies for evaluating the greenhouse gas emissions savings resulting from a
  wide range of Energy Saving Trust support to consumers, SMEs, large public and private sector
  and intermediaries.
• Capture and report on the overall impact of Energy Saving Trust’s activities, considering any
  overlap between Energy Saving Trust programmes as well as overlap with activity external to
  Energy Saving Trust.
• Work closely with the senior leadership team and departments across Energy Saving Trust to
  provide expertise on how impact can be monitored and evaluated.
• Work with others in the insight and evaluation team to ensure ongoing, existing evaluations
  feed into the overall Energy Saving Trust reporting.
• Maintain and develop excellent knowledge of emerging developments in evaluation and impact
  assessment sector, relevant to Energy Saving Trusts work and mission.

What you’ll bring 

• Relevant professional experience, or equivalent experience that demonstrates the necessary
  skills and knowledge for this role.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of designing and delivering cost-effective evaluation
  and research methodologies, such as theories of change, sampling plans, quantitative and
  qualitative research and analysis tools and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering projects for internal or external clients to agreed
  plans and timescales.
• Analytical skills including use of packages such as Excel, R or SPSS.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to take responsibility for own work, self-reliant and self-motivated.
• Demonstrable ability to act with integrity and always display high professional standards.

For more information, please see the job description on our website.

Applications close 23.59, 19 August 2024. Interviews are intended to be held
from 4 September.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient
applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as
early as possible.

Please click ‘apply online’ via our recruitment portal. We will ask for your personal details,
work history and a supporting statement. Applications submitted without a supporting statement
will not be considered.

In your supporting statement please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job
description. Applications submitted via email or without a supporting statement will not be
considered.

As part of our recruitment process, we conduct background checks on all candidates who receive
a conditional offer of employment. The nature of the scheme that we are contracted to work on
with Scottish Government means that we are required to comply with UK Government standards when
carrying out pre-employment checks for new starters. This check is known as the Baseline
Personnel Security Standard (or BPSS) check. 

The BPSS checks will include a basic criminal record check (DBS check), verification of
identity, verification of right to work in the UK and your previous 3 years employment history.
Information obtained will only be used for the purposes of assessing your suitability for the
role. Please note that if successful, any offer of employment made will be conditional pending
the successful completion of the BPSS checks. 

More information on the checks can be found here:
https://www.gov.scot/publicati… 

Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed
employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible
for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the
recruitment process, please get in touch with [email protected] or call reception on
+44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you. 

Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including
working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is
no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in
whichever way helps them to perform at their best.

We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this
post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where
everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities
and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview
slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum
criteria for a role. Find out
more here.

You can find out more about
our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.