Awards Coordinator

Awards Coordinator

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to manage delivery of the 2025 Ashden Awards. The Awards are central to the organisation’s work, accelerating innovative, inclusive climate solutions.

If you would like to grow your experiences and skills and make a positive contribution to the climate sector, then apply today!

Position: Awards Coordinator

Location: London/Hybrid

Hours: Full-time

Salary: £47,816 per annum

Contract: Fixed-Term Contract from 6 January to 29 August

Closing Date: 12:00pm, 28th Oct 2024

Interviews: First interviews, Monday 4 November online. Second interviews, Thursday 7 November, in person. Candidates will be reimbursed for their travel costs.

The Role

Your work will include delivering Ashden’s 2025 awards and collaborating with colleagues to set the process by which the winners will be chosen. You will oversee the communication with finalists, and support panels of expert judges to decide the champions.

You will also collaborate with colleagues to ensure delivery of a high-profile awards ceremony in London next summer. You will support the international award winners as they visit the UK to take part in that event and lead the integration of all the 2025 winners into ongoing projects and programmes. 

Your responsibilities will include development and oversight of the relevant budget. You will report to the Editor.

What you will be doing:

• Working with colleagues on the programme teams to deliver the awards process.
• Overseeing the assessment and judging process; winners liaison; planning for integration into support programmes. 
• Work closely with the fundraising team to ensure the sponsor requirements are met. 
• Management of awards budgets, including contracts with suppliers.
• Generation of insights and data through the awards process to feed into the organisational monitoring, evaluation and learning process.

About You

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Can manage projects lasting several months and involving multiple colleagues, external consultants and stakeholders.
• Are a leader, with skills to bring together, motivate, coordinate and manage a team.
• Are willing to take accountability and work in a self-managed way.
• Are flexible and carry out other associated duties as my arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the position.
• Are not afraid to try new things and openly reflect on successes and failures.

It is also desirable (but not necessary) for you to have:

• Technical knowledge of sustainable energy.
• IT skills, in particular Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with MS Office Suite systems.

About the organisation

The charity boosts climate innovation in the UK and Global South. It’s support brings clean energy to African villages and refugee camps and fixes up the UK’s cold and draughty homes. It makes schools more sustainable, and helps communities protect and restore the nature around them. 

Taking note: research shows that while men tend to apply for jobs when they meet around 60% of the criteria, women and marginalised people tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still apply. 

The processes uses Applied, a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. You will be asked three work sample questions which will be scored anonymously by the recruitment panel along with a redacted version of your CV. Once all the applications are scored, the team make a shortlist for interview.

Due to the volume of applications, the team can only provide individual feedback to candidates who are invited to interview.

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PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.