Project Coordinator

ABOUT US

MaidEnergy is a renewable energy Society, which supports the growth of renewable energy infrastructure projects for the benefit of the local community. Thanks to National Lottery players, we are expanding. 

MaidEnergy supports the growth of locally generated and locally owned renewable energy in Maidenhead, Windsor, Egham, Staines and the surrounding area. We are a community business, democratically run, with an asset lock to preserve the solar panels or other energy generation infrastructure for the benefit of the community.

We launched our first renewable electricity generating community Solar Photovoltaic (PV) share offer in 2015. Since then people have demonstrated their faith in us by investing £970,000. Their investment has funded eight Solar PV installations totalling 640kW and a 60kW Ground Source Heat Pump. These installations have brought low carbon, lower priced renewable energy to public organisations and seen 260 local and national investors join a movement of ethical and financially rewarding community ownership.

MaidEnergy works by:

·        Finding community buildings that are interested in cutting carbon emissions

·        Raising community finance from people in the local area and throughout the UK, through the issuing and managing of community share schemes, to fund installations

·        Providing all relevant legal documents and arranging grid export capability

·        Managing the installation and all ongoing maintenance

·        Working with sites to maximize financial, environmental, and community benefit

MaidEnergy has achieved all this with volunteer Directors, supported by committed volunteers and specialist contractors as required.   MaidEnergy is part of Community Energy People and is now looking to employ a co-ordinator to increase our capacity and improve the consistency of our response.

Job Title:  MaidEnergy Project Co-ordinator

Terms:   Probationary 6 month period.  £14,000 for 15hrs per week (£35,000 FTE pro rata).  Working hours can be flexible to fit around an existing role or circumstances.

Role:  This is primarily a remote working role but with the support of MaidEnergy’s experienced team and monthly in-person meetings (usually in Maidenhead).

Post-holder priorities are to assist the MaidEnergy team with the following tasks:

·        Support to the Board of Directors

·        Monitoring performance of MaidEnergy’s existing estate, liaising with sites, and scheduling routine maintenance and identified repairs.

·        Manage stakeholder communications – to members, public, customers, investors, volunteers

·        Co-ordinate engagement with volunteers

·        Training/ skills development

·        People management/ supervision [of second post] and volunteers

Post-holder responsibilities

·        Provide regular reports to the MaidEnergy Board on project progress

·        Deliver activities efficiently and effectively

·        Support the smooth running of projects and positive relationships with clients and stakeholders

Skills and experience

Essential

·        Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail

·        Extensive experience managing projects, including budget management, project planning, monitoring and reporting

·        Ability to engage, inspire and lead people and teams

·        Passionate about sustainability

Desirable

·        A degree in a relevant discipline or considerable previous experience

·        Experience of project development

·        Proficient use of MS Office software

We actively encourage people of all backgrounds, ages, races, religions, belief systems, sexual orientations and gender identities to apply for this role. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups.  We are working towards being a Disability Confident employer and are open to discussing how best to make that work with our successful candidate. We are committed to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please let us know if you have a disability (as defined under the Equality Act, 2010) that you would like to declare. Please also let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to ensure that the application process is as accessible to you as possible.