Future Generation Lead

The Centre for Sustainable Energy is seeking a Future Generation Lead in Bristol, UK, to oversee its Future Generations programme aimed at empowering young people in the transition to a sustainable energy system. Responsibilities include strategic development, project management, team leadership, and safeguarding. The role requires strong income generation skills and experience in managing teams and partnerships. The position is permanent and full-time with a salary range of £41,802 - £53,956.
Job Title: Future Generation Lead

Location: St James Parade, Bristol BS1 3LH

Salary: £41,802 - £53,956 per year

Job Type: Permanent - Full-time

About The Role

The overall purpose of this role is to lead the development and delivery of CSE's Future Generations programme. This work programme focuses on ensuring that all young people feel inspired and able to play a meaningful role in catalysing and delivering the transition to a more sustainable and fairer energy system.

Duties And Responsibilities
• Programme leadership - To lead the continued strategic development and coordination of the Future Generations Work Programme across CSE; to ensure that all staff are able and encouraged to engage young people in their work; to maintain a portfolio of youth focused projects which provide opportunities for young people to develop capabilities for effectively participating in the energy system transition.
• Development - To pro-actively lead the development of innovative and impactful project ideas and funding proposals for the Future Generations programme, and work with the Development and Communications teams to build and manage the relationships, evidence, and plans necessary to secure investment.
• Representation - To provide inspiration and practical guidance both internally and externally (through targeted public speaking, network-building and online media) for the better inclusion of future generations in sustainability and resilience planning; aligning the Future Generation's programme with CSE's strategic objectives and fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and excellence.
• Team and project management - To take responsibility for the planning and overall delivery of Future Generations projects: ensuring that the Future Generations team is well-resourced, highly motivated, and continuously developing their skills, and that project teams are well-led, efficiently coordinated, effectively using CSE systems and processes, and able to deliver work on time, to budget and to client/donor expectations. Provide mentoring to junior members of the LACE team and provide effective and timely senior management support to contribute to overall team wellbeing and cohesion.
• Safeguarding - to act as a safeguarding lead for our work with children and young people. This includes supporting the handling of any handling of reports or concerns (in conjunction with CSE's dedicated safe guarding officer); pro-actively working to ensure that risks are well understood and managed; keeping policies and procedures up to date; ensuring that safeguarding is prioritized and that expectations of staff, volunteers, trustees, student placements, agency workers and sub-contractors are clear and adhered to.

To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.

About You
• Minimum L2 qualification in Maths and English.
• A strong track record of income generation, managing donor relationships and building successful partnerships.
• Experience of effectively developing and managing teams, portfolios of projects and budgets.
• Ability to inspire, engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including young people, staff, trustees, donors, and partner organisations.
• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to apply sector specific knowledge and understanding to project and programme design.
• Advanced skills in monitoring and evaluating youth programmes, identifying and taking forward learning.

Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.

Benefits
• 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.

How To Apply

To apply, please download and complete the application form available from our website. Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification. Please send the email containing your completed application form to CSE's jobs email - can be found on information for applicant's document.

The closing date for applications is Midday on Monday 7 April 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place 23 and 25 April 2025, though this is subject to change.

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

Please click the APPLY button to submit your application form for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of Strategic Program Manager, Program Strategy Director, Senior Program Lead, Strategic Initiatives Manager, and Program Execution Lead may also be considered.