Overview

We are seeking to recruit a lead management role to drive sustainability across Onward, facilitating, coordinating and collaborating across other teams in the organisation. This role will be key to ensuring Onward delivers in terms of new regulation such as Minimum Energy Efficiency requirements (MEES) and also on our drive to reduce our carbon footprint working towards net 0 by 2025.

The purpose of the role is to manage and lead the delivery of Onward’s Asset Management & Sustainability Strategy across the homes and commercial portfolio, ensuring that key policies/procedures and objectives are effectively implemented, meeting both customer and Regulatory expectations. You will role model and lead Sustainability both within and external to Onward.

Skills/Experience

Essential

  • A degree level qualification in environmental science, sustainability, energy management or a built environment discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Significant experience leading sustainability and asset strategy programmes, including project delivery, budget management, programme planning, cross-functional collaboration, and achieving value for money within social housing or regulated utility environments.
  • Strong knowledge of energy efficiency improvements, low-carbon and renewable technologies, with a sound understanding of PAS 2035, Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) delivery, and long-term investment planning.
  • Proven expertise in heat network operations, regulatory compliance and authorisation requirements, consumer protection frameworks, and fair-pricing principles.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and translate insights into effective business decisions.
  • Demonstrable experience in leading, managing, and developing high-performing teams.
  • Highly effective stakeholder and matrix management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and influence across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate across the organisation and embed sustainability principles into mainstream business activity and decision-making.
Desirable:
  • Experience working with asset management software, and energy management and monitoring tools.
  • PAS 2035 Retrofit Coordinator or Retrofit Assessor.
  • Experience with preparing funding applications or managing decarbonisation grant applications and programmes.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

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