Jobs in Inverness South, Highland

Changeworks is offering an exciting opportunity to join our growing Consultancy team. Your skills, experience and enthusiasm for being at the centre of things will make you well placed to coordinate a diverse range of Monitoring and Evaluation projects, while supporting growth of our role within this sector. Ambitious national targets on climate change, fuel poverty and waste have seen a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale projects across each of these areas delivered by Changeworks and external organisations. These include our large-scale domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes. It is critical that these projects are closely monitored and evaluated to understand their social, technical, environmental and financial impact and gain insights that will inform improvements to current and future projects.

Operating at Consultant grade, the role will involve working alongside the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager to implement effective evaluation strategies for a diversity of projects with both internal and external clients. The Consultancy team works across the sustainability agenda and has a particular specialism related to energy efficiency, heat decarbonisation and renewables in the built environment, fuel poverty and pro-environmental behaviour change.

The successful candidate will have experience of project management, and knowledge and experience of delivering evaluation or research projects, ideally with the ability to deploy a range of qual/quant research techniques. Above all, you will have a commitment and passion for this field, be organised and proactive, and a good communicator. The ability to solve problems as they arise and deal with multiple tasks to meet deadlines in a supportive team environment is essential.

Changeworks offer an attractive staff benefits package which includes an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

Changeworks is offering an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified professional to lead delivery of our current portfolio of Monitoring and Evaluation projects and continue the expansion of our service offering. Ambitious national targets on climate change, fuel poverty and waste have seen a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale projects across each of these areas delivered by Changeworks and external organisations. These include our large-scale domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes. It is critical that these projects are closely monitored and evaluated to understand their social, technical, environmental and financial impact and gain insights that will inform improvements to current and future projects.

The ideal candidate and the role

Based within our Consultancy Team, the role requires effective working with a diversity of Changeworks projects and with external clients across sectors. Our busy Consultancy team works across the sustainability agenda and has a particular specialism related to energy efficiency, heat decarbonisation and renewables in the built environment, fuel poverty and pro-environmental behaviour change.

The successful candidate will be able to draw on a range of experience that will convince us that you can take a lead and continue our development pathway in this area. You will have a demonstrable track record of managing projects with a monitoring and evaluation or research focus and the ability to deploy a range of qual/quant research techniques. Above all, you will have a commitment and passion for this field, be organised and proactive, as well as having a creative streak that will allow you to identify solutions, work round problems, identify new areas of work and promote and disseminate our work. The ability to deal with multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a supportive team environment is essential.

In return you can expect

We offer an attractive staff benefits package which includes an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

Changeworks runs a very successful fuel billing, energy advice and advocacy service for vulnerable householders across Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian, Borders, and Highland regions. We are seeking several Administrative Advisors to provide high quality energy efficiency advice to our clients, as well as excellent administrative support to the Affordable Warmth Services Team.

The successful candidates will be enthusiastic individuals with excellent customer service skills. This is a varied and flexible role, working as part of a team, supporting a busy department. As the first point of contact for vulnerable clients you should be a confident communicator, with an excellent telephone manner. You will also deliver advice face to face at outreach events. You will have experience working with databases and IT packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel working to a high level of accuracy throughout.

We will start to grow your knowledge of services straight away, including full training on the topic of energy efficiency advice. Further training in all the relevant operations and tasks will also be provided. Due to the nature of the role, training will be ongoing to ensure that employees are kept up to date with developments and new technologies.

We offer an attractive staff benefits package which includes an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

Support Workers:£9.50 per hour F/T, P/T and Bank/Casual.

Advanced Support Workers:£11.29 per hour- F/T, P/T and Bank/Casual

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As a Support Worker with Community Integrated Care you will experience an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling role.

Our Support Workers empower people with support needs to live the lives they want to lead.

We’re looking for candidates who are kind, dedicated and have a passion for people.

As a Support Worker, you will support people who have learning disabilities, autism, mental health concerns or dementia with their daily routines.

Prior experience of working in care isn’t always necessary. If you have other skills and experiences that you can bring to this role, we will give you all the support that you need.

You will use the best of your personality and skills every day. From supporting people to enjoy their favourite activities to enabling people to live independently, you will make a real difference.

Are you a Support Worker that is looking to progress in your career? Would you like to gain qualifications, enjoy specialist training, have more responsibility and earn more money? We also recruit for Advanced Support Workers within some complex care services.

You will be joining an award-winning charity. This is an exciting role, where you can change lives for the better and enjoy brilliant experiences.

We’re passionate about developing our own people and this role can lead to other exciting opportunities.

We also offer:

• 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holiday)
• Pension
• Discount and reward scheme
• Employee assistance programmes
• Flexible working opportunities
• Your PVG will be paid for