Location: Wales (with home working)
Salary: Attractive salary
Closing date: noon 31 July 2023
An exciting opportunity to use your communication skills to benefit the people of Wales.
The Welsh Government is establishing a publicly owned renewable energy developer. Its purpose is to put net zero and the communities of Wales at the heart of the transition required to address the huge challenge of climate change. The new state-owned energy developer will scale up the rollout of renewable energy projects across the Welsh public estate, principally through onshore wind and solar PV technologies. We aim to have more than one gigawatt of locally owned, locally generated clean energy by 2040. We have a genuine opportunity here to produce an income that will be reinvested in improving people’s lives in Wales as well as creating good quality, clean energy jobs.
This new company should drive a new approach to delivering benefits from renewables that really make a difference to communities. The current cost of living crisis underlines the importance of energy in our society and involving people in developing different models of benefit sharing will be crucial to the company’s success.
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will be responsible for setting the leadership and strategic direction of stakeholder engagement and communications for the new company. You will work closely with Project Managers and the Senior Management Team in developing and supporting the delivery of the organisations’ strategic objectives providing advice on matters relating to communications, the media and community engagement.
The successful candidate will have considerable experience of stakeholder management and external consultation with the ability to communicate in Welsh, both verbally and in writing. A knowledge of Welsh/UK Government processes and policies is desirable together with knowledge of the renewable energy and public sector.
