Project Manager (Finance)

Green Action Trust; Stepps; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

The Green Action Trust is a trusted delivery partner for the Scottish Government and a wide range of stakeholders including local authorities, regional partnerships, landowners, environmental groups, and local communities. We are passionate about delivering positive environmental and social change in Scotland and are seeking candidates who have a similar passion to help us deliver and grow our activities.

We are pleased to be recruiting a Project Manager (Finance) into our organisation.

This will be a critical role, providing financial oversight and control for project budgets and expenditures. The Project Accountant will be responsible for managing financial aspects of projects, ensuring compliance with funding requirements, and supporting accurate financial reporting.

This is a full-time position. Download our Recruitment Pack for more information about the role and our generous package of employee benefits.

• On site/ Hybrid: Blended or fully office based (from our office in Edinburgh).
• Closing 27th April 2025

The role

As Partnerships Officer, you will work with advice centres and community partners to develop projects, share best practice, and ensure support reaches the people who need it most.

This is a dynamic role where no two days are the same. You will be working at both local and national levels to grow our network and help tackle the climate emergency by making energy advice more accessible and inclusive.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain partnerships with third sector and community organisations across Scotland.
• Support advice centres to develop local projects and share what works well.
• Represent Home Energy Scotland at meetings, briefings and events.
• Deliver engaging presentations and training to partner organisations.
• Monitor and report on progress using our CRM system, ensuring we meet key goals.

What you’ll bring

• Communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working with external stakeholders or community groups.
• Confidence in presenting to a range of audiences.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills, with good knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• A proactive, team-focused approach and ability to manage your time well.

Greener Kirkcaldy is a community-led charity working locally to bring people together, take positive action on the climate emergency and support people through fuel poverty and food insecurity. We deliver a range of projects, events and skills training to achieve the needs and goals of local people – building resilience as a community and working towards a future where everyone can live better and tread more lightly on our planet.

Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy – with a community building, training kitchen, bike shop and garden – we carry out activities across Kirkcaldy and work with partners to deliver projects across Fife.

The Role

As Community Food Team Manager, you will lead the development, planning and management of our vibrant and busy community kitchen, ensuring delivery of a varied programme of community events and activities, in accordance with our values, funding commitments and social enterprise aspirations. You will also lead the development of new and enterprising ideas to grow our vision of a place for people to come together to grow, cook, eat and learn, working with the Senior Leadership Team to secure the resources to develop new project ideas.

You will use your leadership skills to manage and support the development of a team of four and ensure our Community Food Volunteers are adequately supported, supervised and celebrated.

You will use your existing knowledge of the local social, political and cultural community food landscape to ensure Greener Kirkcaldy continues to be recognised as an informed, trustworthy and impactful organisation by funders, partners and decision-makers in the sector.

We want our town to be a good place to live and work. We believe in a future where everyone has a say in what happens locally, people are working together to protect our environment and those in hardship are supported to live well. That includes our staff and volunteers.

Benefits of working for Greener Kirkcaldy

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and sick pay
• Wellbeing, training and development opportunities
• Social events
• Diversity and inclusion

We want Greener Kirkcaldy to be an inclusive and diverse charity where everyone feels supported, valued and able to be themselves. We take part in Fife Centre for Equalities’ Equality Pathfinders programme. We also take part in the Race Equality Environmental Programme facilitated by CEMVO Scotland. Our Equalities Action Plan sets out the steps we are taking to improve diversity and inclusion.

If you need additional support to apply or take part in the recruitment process, please contact our Office Manager Dianne Girvan. Email [e-mail].

Changeworks is a leading organisation dedicated to decarbonising Scotland’s homes and a just transition to net zero. Our vision is a world where everyone can live, work and thrive while reducing their carbon impact. Climate change poses the most serious threat to our environment and way of life, and we are committed to enabling a fair and inclusive transition to a low-carbon Scotland.

We work in partnership with communities, organisations, and householders to drive impactful change in energy efficiency and fuel poverty. Our unique position as a charity operating with a social enterprise model allows us to reinvest in our work, build trust across sectors, and act with flexibility to accelerate home decarbonisation throughout Scotland.

With the recent launch of our 2025–2030 strategy, this is a pivotal moment to join our growing organisation and help shape a more sustainable future.

About the Consultancy Team

Our Consultancy team offers expert analytical and advisory services to local authorities, housing associations, the Scottish Government, and organisations across the third and private sectors. Our expertise spans the full decarbonisation journey — from energy efficiency and low-carbon heat to renewable energy systems, fuel poverty, and behaviour change.

The Role: Principal Consultant

As a Principal Consultant, you will play a strategic and hands-on role in leading the development and delivery of high-impact research and consultancy projects aligned with Changeworks’ ambition to decarbonise homes and deliver a just transition to net zero.

You’ll manage a portfolio of clients and projects, shaping our service offer to meet evolving needs and maximise our impact. You will lead on business development, including client engagement, competitive tendering, and securing funding, working both independently and in collaboration with other teams across Changeworks such as Retrofit Delivery, Community Engagement & Energy Advice, Home Energy Scotland and Local Energy Scotland.

About You

We’re seeking a motivated and forward-thinking professional with the following strengths:

• Strategic Insight: A deep understanding of the policy and regulatory landscape in Scotland and the UK, and the challenges and opportunities faced by our clients and partners in decarbonising domestic buildings.
• Technical Expertise: Excellent technical knowledge of building fabric improvement principles and standards, energy efficiency, individual and collective low-carbon heating systems engineering principles and small-scale residential renewable energy systems.
• Business Development: A proven track record of developing client relationships, winning contracts, and securing funding through tenders and grants.
• Leadership & Management: Demonstrable experience in leading projects and teams, with a commitment to mentoring and skills development.
• Collaboration: Outstanding communication and partnership-building skills, with experience working across diverse stakeholder groups.

You will have extensive experience in a relevant professional setting—whether in academia, business, consultancy, technology, or the community sector—and a proven ability to design and deliver impactful retrofit and energy projects.

While we welcome candidates with expertise across all the areas listed, we encourage applications from individuals with strengths in some and a willingness to grow in others.

Above all, we are looking for passionate and proactive individuals who share our commitment to a sustainable, low-carbon Scotland.

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.

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.

• Remote: Flexible within the UK. Home-based, blended or fully office based (from our offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh or London). Possible travel to other offices or events, located across the UK.
• Closing 6th May 2025

We are looking for a Customer Experience Coordinator to join our team and contribute to the mobilisation of new energy advice programmes by setting up, integrating and advising on the Energy Saving Trust world class framework requirements in collaboration with peers.

The role

Lead, coordinate, explore or contribute to work on projects that:

• Support business growth whilst maintaining high levels of customer experience.
• Investigate operational and digital efficiency solutions.
• Ensure our ongoing ability to meet or exceed the organisation’s world class strategic objective and customer experience related key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Drive continuous improvement through customer voice and colleague knowledge development.
• Help embed any projects derived from areas of industry best practice.
• Contribute to the customer experience team’s vision, team support and overall success.

What you’ll do

• Integrate the Energy Saving Trust world class framework for new programmes.
• Contribute to new programme set up meetings and provide advice to mobilisation colleagues on customer experience considerations.
• Contribute to a wide range of customer experience projects to ensure their success. This includes creating content, exploring and investigating, coordinating and collaborating across teams, and adding value through innovative ideas and insights.
• Suggest innovative projects and ideas to enhance support, adapting to evolving needs and benefits.

What you’ll bring

• A proven track record of having a strong customer focus with a passion for customer experience excellence.
• Experience in supporting the delivery of multiple projects, a strong background in administrative support or demonstratable experience of coordinating multiple tasks and colleagues.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and actionable outcomes in both in-person and virtual settings.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a positive and enthusiastic approach to engaging diverse audiences across various teams and levels of seniority.
• An innovative, creative and solutions focused mindset to add value to projects, with a self-motivated willingness to learn a vast amount of information across a range of subjects and scope out new things.