Community Climate Fund Senior Lead - Northwest England

Closing date: 2 September 2024

Employer: The Princes Responsible Business Network

Hours: Full time

Salary: £42,435 per annum

Location: Agile

Business in the Community (BITC) is looking for an individual based close to the M62 Corridor of the Northwest region – to develop our next place to operationalise its Community Climate Fund.

Join a team setting up our Community Climate Fund (CCF), that aims to raise £100m and be actively supporting community climate action in twenty-five places across the UK by 2030. This is an exciting opportunity to identify and deliver a plan in a place (eg Salford, an area in Manchester, Warrington, or Wigan) to have a positive social, environmental, and economic impact for the communities there.

• Increase resilience to economic and environmental shocks
• Strengthen community coherence and wellbeing
• Accelerate progress towards net zero

The role will involve:

• Identifying and developing our next place in the Northwest of England to operationalize our Community Climate Fund.
• Developing a deep understanding of, and engagement with the community organisations present in the area as potential beneficiaries of the Community Climate Fund.
• Nurturing relationships with cross sector representatives at all levels to collaborate and ensure the community climate fund meets local needs.
• Working with our climate action experts and the steering group, to select community climate projects to fund.

This role will be based close to the M62 Corridor - the post holder will work from home but be willing and able to commute to the selected place twice a week.

Interested in this vacancy?

Please email: employment.hub@salford.gov.uk or call 0161 237 4176 and we will be in touch.