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| Title | Business Engagement and Project Officer – Green |
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Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible. Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it’s clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in. Please view the extraordinary story of Haylea’s Unbeatable Spirit here. The Role: As a Business Engagement & Project Officer in our Green Economy team, you can make your own powerful contribution. Undertaking the day-to-day engagement, you’ll coordinate and deliver our first grant programme enabling businesses and voluntary and community organisations to adapt their premises to reduce emissions, make energy savings and build a fairer and greener economy. Our economy has a huge role to play in addressing the climate emergency, and in this role, you’ll help to bring environmental sustainability to the forefront of our economic development approach. No two days will be the same; from engaging individual businesses on what retrofit will mean for them, to running a workshop for social enterprises to apply for a grant, to meeting with internal colleagues on grant approvals and providing briefings for Cabinet Members and senior leadership. This innovative programme is now at implementation stage and this role will be coordinating the small initial pilot. Technical colleagues will be on hand to advise. A third-party specialist carbon footprint contractor is in place to produce free assessments/surveys for every business that needs one. Your role will be to coordinate all these parts so the programme can mobilise quickly. About You: We are looking for someone who is organised, able to work efficiently and can engage directly with business owners, has ideas about promoting the programme and can help navigate the pathway to net zero for our economy. You’ll be a natural communicator, with the ability to establish and build effective working relationships with colleagues and agencies at all levels of the council and beyond. With good project delivery, procurement, contract management and budgeting skills, you’ll be highly competent in planning and delivery. Most importantly, you’ll be a person passionate about contributing to the development of a greener economy. We are open to different skills and knowledge. You might be someone who:
Please note: The role is initially until 31st March 2025 and funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund What We Offer: Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
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