About us
Local Partnerships LLP is jointly owned by the Local Government Association, HM Treasury and the Welsh Government. We occupy a unique position in the public sector, facilitating change through working impartially and collaboratively across all parts of central, local and regional government, and devolved administrations.
Our purpose is to help public sector organisations face the ever-increasing challenge of meeting rising demands for services, with shrinking budgets. We bring public and private sector experience that provides confidence, capability and capacity, helping local authorities achieve and maintain financial resilience.
We work all over England and Wales with a core team based in Smith Square, Westminster and a small office in Cardiff. We have c. 60 employees, supplemented by a pool of associates, and a current annual turnover of c. £10 million.
Our impact report for 2019-20 can be found at https://localpartnerships.org.uk/news/our-impact-report-2019-20/
The role
As the area of Climate Response continues to become a growing priority with many authorities, we are seeing an increase in the breadth and number of projects we are undertaking in this discipline. To support this, we are seeking to recruit a Project Manager in our Climate Response team, who also has experience working with renewable energy projects.
Local Partnerships is currently working with a number of authorities to develop responses to declarations of climate emergency. We have been working with these authorities to determine their emissions baselines, plot forward trajectories and develop action plans for dealing with greenhouse gas reductions, in order to become carbon neutral organisations.
Our recommendations span a wide range of measures from asset reviews to building energy efficiency, utility scale renewable energy generation schemes and air quality measures. We always challenge ambition and look to influence the wider area as well as the authority’s own emissions.
We support public sector bodies in the development and delivery of strategic regional carbon reduction plans (as part of City Deals and Regional Growth Plans), local renewable energy generation projects (such as wind and solar facilities) and improving the energy efficiency of their estates.
Projects include utility scale renewable energy generation assets (solar PV and wind), building energy efficiency programmes, street lighting programmes and district heating networks.
We can provide insights around grid connection availability and support clients with grid connection applications.
The requirements
• Strong commercial skills and a track record of operating in a contracting environment.
• Sound understanding of the UK public sector and/or community focused 3rd sector
• Proven experience of working on high profile complex projects with a track record of effective delivery
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and in analysis and presentation of data
• Experience of building effective relationships with senior stakeholders
• Experience of managing project teams from differing backgrounds and professions
From a specific Climate Response perspective, we are looking for:
• Experience and expertise of renewable energy and smart power grids
• Experience of working with external parties including Aurora Energy Research (or similar), landowners, developers, DNOs and planning and other consultants
You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.
A profile for the role, the job description and person specification, is set out below.
Closing date: 5pm, Friday 27 August 2021
Interview date: Monday 13 September 2021
We are keen to increase the diversity of the team and applications from people with protected characteristics are encouraged.
Local Partnerships values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community