Retrofit Project Manager in Bristol

The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint a Retrofit Project Manager, to join the Net Zero Delivery team. Your key responsibilities in this role would be to ensure a focus on delivering the priorities of the Mayor to deliver for the West of England by managing Government Grant home energy projects and helping thousands of regional homes impacted by fuel poverty.

We’re looking for a dynamic, highly motivated project management professional who is passionate about sustainable housing, energy efficiency, and delivering real social impact across the region. This is a critical time in our transformation and growth journey, and you’ll be pivotal in helping us achieve our ambitions by:

• Supporting consortium members and social housing providers to ensure retrofit projects run smoothly, are completed on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with funding bodies (such as the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero), contractors, and suppliers.
• Ensuring robust financial oversight by validating grant claims, processing invoices, setting budgets, and maintaining governance.
• Completing regular monitoring, project evaluations, performance management reports, and risk assessments.
• Providing expert coordination and analysis to overcome delivery barriers and support key Net Zero Hub initiatives.

Are you someone who possesses excellent financial and data reporting skills, strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, and ultimately always focuses on delivering high-quality housing retrofit projects on time and within grant compliance?

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a skilled project manager or experienced professional from construction, social housing, local government, or financial project management with a keen interest in the growing retrofit market. We’re particularly interested in people who:

• Have experience in project management, construction, local authority, or social housing environments.
• Demonstrate strong financial acumen, including experience with grant funding schemes, accruals, invoicing, and budget tracking.
• Bring excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and coordinate a dispersed consortium of stakeholders.

Why choose us?

This team forms part of the South West Net Zero Hub (SWNZH), serving as a crucial bridge between local energy actors and central government to drive decarbonisation across the South West. This is an opportunity to make a real difference by directly helping thousands of local households tackle fuel poverty and playing a key role in the region's journey toward Net Zero. You'll also enjoy a flexible hybrid working environment, working from home with occasional visits to our Bristol office. This is a fixed term role until 31st March 2028.

Our offer

We are based in a new bright and airy office, with all the latest technology, close to Bristol Temple Meads Train Station. Alongside the opportunity to make a real difference to the people who visit, live and work in the West of England, we offer an excellent benefits package including:

• 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years continuous service.
• 2 days of paid leave each year to volunteer.
• Local Government Pension Scheme (one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK).
• Flexible, family friendly and hybrid working options to ensure you achieve the best work/life balance and career goals.
• Reduced bus fare travel across the West of England.

We believe in fostering a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering you to thrive in your career. We prioritise your growth and success by providing a diverse range of learning and development opportunities. Our goal is to keep you motivated, equipped with essential skills, and confident in delivering excellent services.

The salary for this role is £47,181 - £51,356. This is the full-time equivalent salary, and will be pro-rata for part-time. We advertise salary ranges for job roles, with new appointments for external candidates typically starting at the lowest salary point. In exceptional cases, where higher skill levels or experience are applicable, the salary point may be adjusted to secure the best candidate. This approach allows for potential year-on-year salary increases, offering progression and appropriate rewards to employees.

As a founding Member of the West of England Good Employment Charter and accredited Living Wage Employer, we’re committed to creating a diverse environment where all our employees can thrive. We make sure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and we particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or citizenship status.

As part of our commitment to fair and inclusive recruitment, we provide interview questions to all shortlisted candidates in advance/on request. This approach helps ensure everyone can demonstrate their skills, knowledge and experience fully, and supports our duties under the Equality Act 2010. You will also be asked follow-up questions during the interview to explore your responses in more detail.

We’re not engaging with agencies for this role. Any CVs received from agencies will be considered as unsolicited and the property of the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, with no obligation to pay agency fees.