Principal Decarbonisation Officer

at  Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Job description
Directorate: Adult Care, Housing & Public Health
Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week.
It couldn’t be a more important and exciting time to join the team at Rotherham. We built our first council homes in 1919, and now we are one of the largest providers of Council housing in the country – with 20,000 homes, and a programme in place to build hundreds more.
The Council is proud of its record of providing safe, decent, good quality homes for residents. We have a healthy investment programme in place and well-performing cyclical maintenance and compliance functions, with high levels of decency and a growing number of homes achieving EPC C. Now we want to take this to the next level. For this newly created role, we need an experienced housing/decarbonisation professional to perform a vital role in developing, and implementing Housing Services decarbonisation programme to ensure its residential stock meets EPC Band C and net zero targets.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about environmental, sustainability and decarbonisation and will have experience of project managing. They will have a good attention to detail and excellent problem solving and organisational skills to ensure the smooth running of these critical projects.
We offer a comprehensive reward package which includes flexible working patterns and generous holiday entitlement.
For further details about this role, please contact Kerry Brentnall on 07385556734 or via email [email protected]
This post will have access to the Public Services Network, if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at the Basic level (unspent criminal convictions).
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.
Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).

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