Community Engagement Coordinator

Job Title: Community Engagement Coordinator

Location: Bristol BS13LH

Salary: £25,600 - £29,147 per year

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 12pm Monday 11 August 2025

About us:

CSE is a national charity based in Bristol with a clear mission: to tackle the climate emergency and end the suffering caused by cold homes. We believe in a future where everyone can live in a warm, healthy home powered by a fair and sustainable energy system - and we work with people, organisations and communities to help make that a reality. We collaborate across teams and disciplines to deliver practical change, and we're proud of our independence, integrity and commitment to social justice.

The Role:

We are looking for someone to provide key administrative support for our local and community energy projects. The post holder will help to build relationships and ensure robust administration, focussing primarily on our grant schemes and capacity building work with community organisations.

Specific Responsibilities

An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:

• To play a key role in co-ordinating our grant giving for community organisations, including having direct communications with grantees, tracking payments, monitoring delivery, and maintaining records.
• To liaise with a range of stakeholders, potentially including community groups, local authorities, town and parish councils, and neighbourhood planning groups.
• To support the planning, promotion and delivery of training sessions, workshops and events.
• To represent CSE on a range of projects, in external in-person and online meetings and events.
• To support promotion of CSE projects, activities, reports and publications to ensure effective engagement with the target audience

To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.

Essential attributes for this role include:

• 5 GCSEs at grade A-C or equivalent, including English (or 4 or above).
• Providing administrative support in an organisation or project context.
• Working on more than one project or set of tasks at once, working to deadlines and being accountable for your time.
• Engaging and supporting a range of stakeholders.
• Planning and delivering effective in person and online events.
• Understanding broad themes driving the sustainable energy, fuel poverty and climate change work of CSE, and an appetite to learn and improve your understanding.
• Able to use Teams, Zoom or other online meeting platforms.
• Grant scheme delivery and grant management systems.

Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.

What we offer:

CSE offer a range of benefits including:

• Subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Cash plan
• Retail discounts
• Discounted breakdown cover and many more

We will pay fees and expenses on relevant training courses

How to apply:

To apply, please click apply and check your emails and complete the application form sent to you. You can also download this from our CSE website.

Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification.

To apply, please download and complete the application form available from our CSE website or the email you receive and send it to our Jobs email. Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification and job description.

To be considered for this role an application form must be sent to the email address provided.

The closing date for applications is 12pm Monday 11 August 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 September 2025, though this is subject to change.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to take part in the recruitment process, please let us know and we'll be happy to accommodate your needs.

If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Project Administrator, Charity Relations, Support Administrator, Office Administrator, Charity Admin, Engagement Administrator, may also be considered for this role.