Big Consultant – Research
44,415 pounds sterling – 48,183 pounds annually + 8 % business pension contribution
35 hours a week. Full time, permanent
Edinburgh or Evernis (hybrid from home and offices)

Join the leading environmental charity in Scotland as a first consultant to support research and consultations that focus on influencing.

ChanGeworks is looking for a great advisor to support our research and options analysis service portfolio, with attention and flexibility to contribute to our wider wallet with its development.

As a great advisor, you will play an important role in leading the development and delivery of projects, high -quality services and services that support the ChanGeworks strategy to accelerate Scottish homes and a fair move to zero.

You will play an important role in the team, and work with the main consultants and other members of the consulting team to determine and follow opportunities to develop and diversify our portfolio from projects, income services and services that focus on influencing.

You will contribute to business development – support customer exploration, tender leadership and bid writing. Once the work is secured, it will supervise the management of a set of services, projects and contracts using historical and expected financial and administrative information to ensure the achievement of its goals and goals and are delivered on time and the budget.

Senior consultants lead the role model, the management of employees in a proactive and supportive manner in line with the values ​​of change. As required, you will support employees to implement their roles effectively with a professional development.

Finally, you will also play a role in supporting our pre-emptive efforts to use ChanGeworks and experience to form the policy and practice of the sector-through contributions to the leadership of thought, public participation, and work groups through sites.

About you

We are seeking a professional with motivation and thinking forward with the following strengths:

• Strategic Insight: Understanding Politics and Organizational Landscape in Scotland and the United Kingdom, and the challenges and opportunities our customers and partners face in local buildings.
• Technical Experience: Specific Research Methodology and Strong Knowledge and Application to Research Presses Related to Amendment.
• Business Development: Experience in Developing Customer Relations, Writing Tenders and Discussions, and Securing Contracts and Financing from Commercial and Charitable/ Academics.
• Project delivery and team management: a strong experience in providing excellence in project management in a professional role, research or consultant, with a commitment to guidance and skills development.
• Communication and Cooperation: Skills of communication and strong presentation, with experience in dealing with various stakeholders groups.

Above all, we are looking for emotional and proactive individuals who share our commitment to a sustainable low -carbon Scotland.

While we welcome candidates with experience in all these areas, we encourage requests from individuals who have strengths in some and the desire to grow in others.

About the consulting team

Our consulting team provides analytical services and consulting experts to a variety of clients, including local authorities, housing societies, Scottish government, and organizations in the third and private sectors. Our work covers the full spectrum of Scotland homes in Scotland-from the energy efficiency and low carbon heat to renewable energy systems, fuel poverty, and behavior change.

We support customers to remove carbon from housing assets and contribute to evidence to inform politics, planning, supply chains and financing on both the national and local levels.

About ChangeWorks

ChangeWorks is the leading environmental charity in Scotland, providing practical low -carbon living solutions for more than 35 years. We are driven by a world view where everyone can live, work and prosper while reducing carbon effect. Climate change is a more serious threat to our environment and our way of life, and we are committed to enabling a fair and comprehensive transition to low -carbon Scotland.

Treating inequality is essential to our mission. We work in partnership with societies, institutions and delights to advance an effective change in energy efficiency and fuel poverty. Our unique website allows us as a charity that works with a model for the social institution re -investing in our work, building confidence across sectors, and working with flexibility to accelerate carbon removal throughout Scotland.

With the launch of our 2025-2030 strategy, this is a pivotal moment to join our growing institution and help forming a more sustainable future.

about us

ChangeWorks is a great place to work. We carry investors to adopt People Platinum (only a few organizations in Scotland), and we were nominated for the employer by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our employees recommend an overwhelming majority as an employer as well.

The climate emergency resulted in ambitious national goals to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce the rates of fuel poverty. This has led to a significant increase in the number of experimental interventions and the sermon provided by ChanGeworks and external organizations in this field. These include projects and programs based on local energy efficiency in the region.

We are a growing organization, and this role is very important to hand over our ambitious goals. We want to slide homes in Scotland on a large scale, which needs talented individuals like you to help us achieve our goals. You will receive full training in addition to training and guidance.

We offer a wide range of employees’ advantages including flexible work, bike scheme to work, excellent pension scheme and 26 days vacation in addition to 9 days of public holidays per year.

In ChangeWorks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Applications closing date: 5 pm, Wednesday 22 October 2025

Interviews: First interviews: A week starts Monday, October 27, 2025

Second interviews: A week starts Monday 3 November 2025

For more information about this post, please contact Lauren Salmon (Email protected)

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