CCF is looking for a Co-ordinator to be at the hub of this lively charity, co-ordinating its activities and managing our office and administration. 3 days per week, £19,500p.a. pro rata (ie: £11,700).
Contract: One year, renewable subject to funding.
We help people work together creatively to make real reductions in their CO2 emissions. For example:
Carbon Conversations, originated by CCF, is now run by groups nationwide, including us.
Open Eco Homes, a 3-year old CCF project with 25 exemplar homes open to the public this year.
Our activities (projects, events, training, publicity, etc) are delivered by a collaboration of many volunteers (149 last year), including Trustees, and our 2 part-time paid staff: the Coordinator and the Volunteer and Events Organiser, whose work is essential to keep us organised and effective and to recruit and support our volunteers.
As Coordinator, you would:
- have oversight of CCF and coordinate some of our projects
- manage our office; develop & run its systems
- collate and keep records of all our activities, highlighting any problems to trustees
- respond to enquiries or field them appropriately
A full job description can be downloaded here.
You would work alongside our Volunteer & Events Organiser, Stephanie Ferguson and cover her work appropriately, when she’s away. She joined in December and is doing a brilliant job involving and supporting more volunteers and arranging and delivering events with them.
You can expect admin support from a volunteer, probably 1½ days a week.
Bev Sedley would be your line manager. She’s one of our Trustees, who, between them, steer the organisation and most of its projects.
Skills and knowledge required
Our ideal candidate will be a flexible, creative, self-starter, who’s good with people. Keenly interested in low-carbon, sustainable futures, with the following skills and experience:
| Essential | Desirable experience |
| excellent organisational and office skills. Some years office-working experience | managing an office / small organisation. organising own workload to deadlines basic book-keeping |
| Friendly, with excellent communications skills, written and verbal | people work |
| experience of organising others | organising & inspiring volunteers |
| Leading projects involving others | Reporting on progress |
| an eye for detail. | Events organising experience |
| good at working as part of a team | collaborative working |
| an interest in climate change and carbon reduction | climate change communication |
| IT competence: MS Office, email, web-posting | producing attractive paper, web & media publicity |
Closing date for applications: noon, Wed 31st October. Interviews on Monday 5th November
Please email your CV and letter of application (2 references will be needed) to Elizabeth Bruce: elizabeth@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org Please phone: 01223 301842 with any queries.
Cambridge Carbon Footprint is looking for a Co-ordinator
to be at the hub of this lively organisation, co-ordinating its activities and managing our office and administration.
3 days per week, £19,500 pa pro rata (ie: £11,700).
Contract: One year, renewable subject to availability of funding.
Cambridge Carbon Footprint is a very active charity concerned with climate change.
We help people work together creatively to make real reductions in their CO2 emissions.
2 part-time paid staff, with support from Trustees and many other volunteers (149 last year) collaborate on our projects, events, publicity, etc. The work of the staff is essential to coordinate and support volunteers and to keep us organised and effective.
Open Eco Homes, a CCF project is in its third year and we originated Carbon Conversations, now run by groups nationwide, including us.
As Coordinator, you would:
- manage and develop our office and its administrative systems
- keep an overview of all our projects, putting the right people in touch
- collate and keep records of all our projects and events, highlighting problems
- respond to enquiries or field them appropriately
A full job description will be available to short-listed candidates.
You would take over most of the work of our current Coordinator, Mary Geddes, who is leaving after more than 2 years, as she wants to catch up with her own work and come to CCF events without a work hat on. She’s offered to continue with our book-keeping and payments, as a volunteer, and would eventually train you or another successor in this.
You would work alongside our Volunteer & Events Organiser, Stephanie Ferguson and cover her work appropriately, when she’s away. She joined in December and is doing a brilliant job involving and supporting more volunteers and arranging and delivering events with them.
You can expect admin support from a volunteer, who you would maange – currently the efficient Sally Fenn is volunteering 1½ days a week for this, but as she plans to do less in late May, you would probably be with her successor.
Bev Sedley would be your line manager. She’s one of our Trustees, who, between them, steer the organisation and manage most of our projects.
Skills and knowledge required
Our ideal candidate will be a flexible, creative, self-starter, who is good with people with the following skills and experience:
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Essential |
Desirable experience |
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excellent organisational skills |
Organising an office |
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Friendly with exceptional communications skills |
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experience of organising others |
organising & inspiring volunteers |
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ability to organise own workload to deadlines |
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an eye for detail |
Book-keeping |
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good at working as part of a team |
collaborative working |
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an interest in climate change and carbon reduction |
climate change communication |
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IT competence: MS Office, email |
producing attractive paper, web & media publicity |
Closing date for applications: noon, Thu 17th May. Interviews on Tue 22nd May
please email your CV and letter of application to: Mary Geddes: mary.geddes@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org Phone: 01223 301842 with any queries
Cambridge Carbon Footprint, Future Business, Milton Rd, Cambridge CB4 1UY.
