Project Manager Maternity Cover

Job Title: Project Manager (Maternity Cover)

Location: Bristol, BS1 3LH

Salary: £36,075 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

Closing date: Monday 22nd September 2025

The Role:

CSE is seeking to appoint a confident and adaptable Project Manager (Maternity Cover) with the experience and initiative to lead and deliver a varied portfolio of community-based energy and climate projects.

This role will likely initially focus on coordinating our work on the Energy Learning Network and supporting the networking of local community organisations that provide vital energy advice.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who is confident working with a wide range of stakeholders and has proven experience managing multi-partner or community-based projects. They will understand and seek to champion the value of community-led approaches to energy and climate action.

Specific responsibilities:

An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:

• Consistently and effectively manage projects across a range of initiatives within the LACE team with responsibility for planning, promotion, budgeting, ongoing financial management, funder liaison, reporting, monitoring and evaluation
• Manage finance and resources for project work such as events, training, analysis, grant schemes, stakeholder engagement, community climate action, youth work and work supporting local authorities
• Line management of up to 1-2 junior members of the LACE team
• Contribute to team wellbeing by supporting co-workers in their tasks and proactively addressing issues relating to your projects or direct reports. Communicate project outputs effectively to team members, CSE staff and eternal stakeholders
• Oversee promotion and marketing of projects and outputs to ensure effective engagement with the target audience (in conjunction with Communications team)
• Regularly represent CSE at external events (e.g. webinars, meetings, conferences), presenting to a Centre for Sustainable Energy 2024 high standard and sharing outputs and insights from projects you manage and work on
• Establish and maintain strong relationships and partnerships with funders and stakeholders, potentially including existing funders and strategic partners, community groups, local authorities, voluntary sector associations, housing associations, youth groups
• Provide expertise and experience necessary to deliver projects well and contribute to the upskilling of CSE staff and the capacity building of external stakeholders. In this role that could include models and approaches for viable community led sustainability initiatives, community renewables, sustainability initiatives, community engagement, community resilience, or energy efficiency
• To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website

Essential attributes for this role include:

• GCSE or O' level Maths and English
• Managing projects and project teams, including all financial processes, funder liaison, adaptive management, learning, communication, and reporting
• Working closely with or within a local community focused organisation or a UK local authority
• Working as part of a matrix management system, across project teams working on several different projects at the same time
• Developing and writing successful funding proposals and tender responses
• Excellent budget management and donor reporting skills

Pay and conditions:

• The role is full-time 1-year fixed contract (37.5 hours per week)
• The salary for the role will be £36,075
• You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday (plus statutory holidays)

CSE offer a range of benefits including, subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash plan, retail discounts and discounted breakdown cover and many more.

We will pay fees and expenses on relevant training courses.

How to apply:

To apply, please click apply and check your emails and complete the application form sent to you. You can also download this from our CSE website.

Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification and job description.

To be considered for this role an application form must be sent to the email address provided.

The closing date for applications is 22ndSeptember

Interviews are expected to take place 6th October, though this is subject to change.

If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Project Coordinator, Energy Project Manager, Community Project Coordinator, Sustainability Program Manager, Community Engagement Manager, Climate Action Manager, Charity Project Lead, Energy Efficiency Project Manager, Renewable Energy Coordinator may also be considered for this role.