The Citizen and Community Engagement Officer plays a pivotal role in creating positive relationships between Carbon Co-op, communities and stakeholders. Working with the Engagement Lead and a multidisciplinary team, you’ll be responsible for developing and implementing communication and engagement strategies to involve members, residents, businesses and other stakeholders in our energy transition projects and initiatives. This role requires experience and ability in engagement, communications and project/event delivery.
The engagement work is built on the foundation of a commitment to Energy Justice through recognising the inequity within the energy system including: responsibility for environmental problems, access to services, impact of climate change and representation in decision making. To rebalance this Carbon Co-op work toward the idea that every person and community should both meaningfully participate in and benefit from the energy transition, whether that’s decision making around a new wind turbine or retrofit scheme or accessing the benefits of local flexibility and electrification. As Engagement Officer you will be responsible for implementing engagement strategies underpinned by energy justice principles.
You will be working with Carbon Co-op’s Citizen and Community Engagement Lead and with project managers, to help you support, devise and implement engagement strategies for user-centred projects. You don’t need to be a technical expert on energy systems or retrofit! You will work closely with some of the leading energy system experts in the UK, working with our technical team and those of our partner organisations.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the end of February.