Programme Officer

Carbon Thirteen is seeking a Programme Officer in Cambridge, UK, to support entrepreneurs in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The role involves event planning, participant onboarding, and administrative tasks. Candidates should have strong organizational skills, experience in customer service, and a passion for climate action. This full-time position offers a salary of £26K–£30K per year and requires occasional travel to events.
Carbon13 is the venture builder for the carbon emergency, and our programme team is growing!

We have an opportunity for a Programme Officer who wants to build their career in the venture builder / accelerator space. This role is ideal for a high energy, organised administrator who enjoys dealing with people in fast paced environments.

The Programme Officer will have the unique and exciting opportunity to work closely with our cohort of entrepreneurs and their innovative start-ups that aim to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to climate change, and stay within earth system boundaries.

Job Tasks
• First point of contact for the entrepreneurs and ventures, bringing your energy and excitement to all the programme events.
• Work with the programme team to plan, organise and run events as part of the Venture Builder and Venture Launchpad programmes. Occasional travel to events required.
• Schedule and issue Outlook, Teams and Zoom calendar invites for programme sessions.
• Onboard programme participants and monitor engagement.
• Liaison with speakers including creation of briefs, issuing contracts and maintenance of records.
• Maintain administration systems including Hubspot, Excel, Lists and update procedures to ensure the programmes run to time, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• Actively contribute to process and practice improvements at Carbon13 reflecting on what works and suggesting improvements to continually increase quality of delivery.

Essential Skills
• Previous administration and customer service experience
• Excellent written and verbal English (Proficiency in German is a plus but not mandatory)
• Able to balance multiple deadlines and problem solve
• Enjoy a fast moving and changing environment
• Interest in venture builder programme space and contributing to the climate emergency
• Microsoft Product suite - especially Excel
• Experience in data / database management
• Degree educated
• Ideally have experience in event organisation and admin