We are recruiting a Partnerships Manager to lead partnership activity for Home Energy Scotland, supporting Energy Saving Trust’s strategic objectives across Scotland.

As Partnerships Manager,you will manage a team delivering partnership projects that increase the reach and impact of Home Energy Scotland. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, partner organisations and internal teams to ensure Home Energy Scotland remains the primary public energy advice service in Scotland.

This role plays a key part in supporting fuel poverty priorities, community engagement, employee engagement and Net Zero delivery.

The team

Our team in Energy Saving Trust manages the national Home Energy Scotlandservice on behalf of the Scottish Government. Joining our team means joining an award-winning advice service that supports hundreds of thousands of households across Scotland every year to make their homes warmer, more affordable, and sustainable.

The climate emergency and the current fuel price crisis means the work of Home Energy Scotland has never been more important. Our team is making a real difference to people’s lives, and we are also growing rapidly. We need to recruit more skilled and dedicated people to join our team now.

Our team collaborate widely with colleagues in Energy Saving Trust, staff across the Home Energy Scotland network and many other partners across Scotland. You will be working with people and organisations to help tackle fuel poverty and the climate emergency, both directly, and through a network of regional advice centres covering all of Scotland.

What you will do

• Lead and line manage the Partnerships team delivering Home Energy Scotland partnership activity
• Develop and maintain partnerships with public sector, third sector and intermediary organisations
• Identify new partnership opportunities to extend Home Energy Scotland services and referrals
• Represent Home Energy Scotland and Energy Saving Trust at meetings, events and stakeholder forums
• Work collaboratively with marketing, digital and operational teams to promote and improve energy advice services
• Ensure partnership KPIs, targets and reporting requirements are met
• Support continuous improvement and best practice sharing across Home Energy Scotland advice centres.

What you will bring

Essential

• Team management and leadership skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills including presentations.
• Excellent relationship building, influencing, and negotiating skills with the ability to interact at all levels, from customer service to high-level stakeholders.
• Project management skills.
• Well-developed Microsoft Office skills, including applications such as Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint.
• Ability to work on own initiative and co-operatively as part of a team to deliver results.
• Good analytical and research skills, critical thinking, and risk management, with the ability to identify and realise opportunities.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the Scottish third and public sector landscape.
• Experience of energy efficiency, low carbon heat and renewable technologies.
• Knowledge of environmental issues, legislation, and procedures.
• Financial administration experience.

Benefits - We’ll support you with:

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)
• True flexibility in how and where you work
• Strong pension & life assurance
• Enhanced family leave
• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)
• Professional development support
• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

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.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

Reasonable adjustments: 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.

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 criteria for a role.

BACKGROUND

Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN) is a network of over 200 community groups and more than 1300 individual members. We aim to engage and empower communities across Edinburgh to take meaningful action on the climate and nature emergency, working towards a just, thriving and resilient city. ECCAN is funded as one of Scotland’s twenty-four regional Climate Action Hubs.

We support collaboration, learning, and collective action across communities, connecting local climate action to wider city and national change.

At ECCAN, we are committed to building an organisational culture that is inclusive, equitable and rooted in care for people and planet.

THE ROLE

The Events Officer will play a central role in planning, marketing, coordinating and delivering ECCAN’s programme of events, both for members and the wider public. These events are a keyway we support community climate action, share learning, build relationships and strengthen the ECCAN network.

As a members’ organisation, we rely on engagement with our network. The role requires the ability to understand and drive uptake in our Events, with a focus on successfully marketing to a community group cohort.

Working closely with the Communications Lead and the Members Lead, the postholder will ensure events are well-organised, accessible, engaging and aligned with ECCAN’s values and strategic priorities.

This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in event organisation, excellent organisational skills, and a genuine interest in climate action and community engagement.

We deliver bi-annual Gatherings for the whole membership to come together, we run monthly ClimateBites networking lunches around the membership, and host, collaborate and attend a variety of community and partner events across the city, throughout the year.

Experienced in business development and keen to find an opportunity where you can make a difference? Changeworks is a leading organisation dedicated to decarbonising Scotland’s homes and a just transition to net zero. We are looking for a Business Development Lead to support the identification, development and securing of new business and funding opportunities.

You will work with the Business Development team to deliver the Changeworks’ Business Development Strategy leading on priority areas focused on decarbonising homes. You will support the development, writing and submission of compelling tenders and funding bids that are commercially sound, technically informed and aligned with Changeworks’ strategic priorities. This role will identify and secure new funding and partnership opportunities. You will research and track upcoming tenders and grants in the energy and fuel poverty sectors. Another focus will be identifying and securing new funding and partnership opportunities that enable innovation and long-term growth across Changeworks’ programmes.

You’ll work collaboratively across Changeworks to embed good business development practice, working proactively with team managers across the organisation. You will have at least 3 years’ experience in business development with proven expertise securing funding for projects and services.

About the team

We’re growing our Business Development function and are looking for talented people who want to join us to help scale our energy efficiency, decarbonisation and fuel poverty alleviation work.

We’ve reviewed and refreshed how we do business development so we can seize the right opportunities, forge long-term partnerships, and maximise our impact. We are building a team that has a clear mandate: scanning the market, shaping propositions, and partnering across the organisation to bring in work that accelerates decarbonisation and ends fuel poverty. You’ll have the headroom, clarity and support to do your best work and make a real difference.

Changeworks’ mission is to make low-carbon living a positive reality for everyone and to help decarbonise Scotland’s homes to tackle the climate emergency and ensure a just transition to net zero. For almost 40 years we’ve delivered tangible change through largescale retrofit projects, expert energy advice, and community engagement—working hand in hand with experienced delivery teams and strategic partners who know how to make progress on the ground.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

This is a unique and central role at the heart of civil society efforts in Scotland to tackle the climate crisis. It requires a highly-organised and effective manager who is able to build strong relationships, enjoys working with lots of partners, and is committed to climate action and justice.

You’ll be part of a small but growing SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members and delivers our advocacy and campaigns activities, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible when things change.

Being right at the centre of what we do, we need someone with strong diplomacy skills who is self-motivated. You’ll be the glue that holds a diverse coalition together, enabling it to be greater than the sum of its parts.

This is a varied and rewarding role and we are looking for someone keen to be a key part of the Scottish climate movement and get stuck into everything it involves!

About SCCS

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is Scotland’s climate coalition, bringing together over 70 civil society organisations campaigning together on climate change.

Our membership is diverse and includes national and community organisations working on:

• Climate action and justice
• Environment and nature
• Gender and social justice
• Faith and belief
• International development
• Worker and human rights
• Health and inequality

Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland and stand in solidarity with communities most affected by climate impacts around the world. We collaborate with our members to build strong public support for faster climate action. We use this support to influence decision-makers to put in place fair, effective policies to reduce emissions and benefits for everyone.

Key tasks

Strategy and delivery

• Work with the SCCS Board and partners to lead the development of SCCS strategies
• Develop and oversee work plans to deliver agreed aims, including direct delivery, where necessary
• Manage external communications, ensuring coalition sign off processes are followed

Governance and finance

• Carry out annual budget forecasting, provide regular financial updates to the board, and work with an external accountant to produce end of year financial reports
• Provide support and reports to board meetings and organise AGMs
• Ensure accurate and timely official reporting to Companies House, OSCR and other legal requirements
• Identify and respond to fundraising opportunities while managing existing funding and reporting requirements

Leadership and stakeholder management

• Work with Board on membership development to ensure our coalition remains strong and diverse, and grows
• Line manage staff and volunteers and oversee the work of consultants
• Facilitate coalition and external meetings, design agendas and ensure records are produced
• Represent SCCS at relevant external meetings and events and act as a spokesperson for the coalition when appropriate – with the public, political stakeholders and the media
• Liaise and coordinate with sister coalitions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and develop strategic relationships with relevant networks in Scotland
• Ensure equality and diversity are fully considered in all aspects of our work and internal processes
• Carry out any other tasks required to manage and advance the coalition or as identified by SCCS Board

Personal specification

Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential

• Experience in a charity management role, which included strategy development, governance, financial, and line management
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with multiple partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for different audiences and purposes
• Skilled at meeting facilitation and designing engaging meetings
• Excellent IT skills
• Proactive, able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities while being highly organised and prioritising and managing a busy workload
• An understanding of the policy and political landscapes in Scotland
• Conflict management and diplomacy skills
• Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice

Desirable

• Experience of planning and delivering environmental or social justice campaigns
• Knowledge of the civil society landscape in Scotland
• Fundraising experience
• Media spokesperson experience
• Experience working with and supporting charity boards

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the role: the knowledge, skills and experience of the successful candidate will be more important than formal academic qualifications.

Terms and conditions

• Salary: £40,000
• Hours: 5 days a week (35 hours). The option to work 4 days and flexible working requests will be considered. The post holder may need to work the occasional evening or weekend, for which time off in lieu will be granted. Overtime will not be paid.
• Location: Primarily from home, with occasional office working in central Edinburgh. Other travel may be required to meetings, most often in the central belt, but occasionally in other parts of Scotland or the UK (for which travel expenses will be paid).
• Line manager: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Chair
• Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays (pro rata).
• Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST, with employer contribution of 6%.
• We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.