Consultant - Retrofit

Consultant - Retrofit
£36,814 - £40,100 per annum + 8% employer pension contribution
Full time (35 hours per week), permanent
Edinburgh – hybrid of home and office working

Are you looking for a new role where your work will make a real impact? Changeworks is looking for a technical Consultant able to support our current home retrofit assessment, modelling and strategy services, with the interest and flexibility to contribute to our broader portfolio as it evolves.

As a Consultant, you will play an important role in leading, contributing to and shaping the delivery of high quality and innovative projects and services that support Changeworks’ strategy of acceleration of decarbonising Scottish homes and a just transition to net zero.

You will play a critical role in the team, working with Principal and Senior Consultants and other members of the Consultancy team to identify and pursue opportunities to develop and diversify our portfolio of impact-focused income-generating projects, services and contracts.

You will contribute to business development, supporting client prospecting and tender and bid writing, and lead where required. Once work is secured, you will manage projects and contracts using historic and forecasted financial and management information to ensure they achieve their aims and objectives and are delivered on time and to budget.

Finally, you will also play a role in support our proactive efforts to using Changeworks insights and experience to shape sector policy and practice — through contributions to thought leadership, public engagement, and cross-sector working groups.

About the Consultancy Team

Our Consultancy team offers expert analytical and advisory services to a diverse range of clients including local authorities, housing associations, the Scottish Government, and organisations across the third and private sectors. Our work covers the full spectrum of decarbonising Scotland’s homes—from energy efficiency and low-carbon heat to renewable energy systems, fuel poverty, and behaviour change. We support clients to decarbonise their housing assets and contribute evidence to inform policy, planning, supply chains, and finance at both national and local levels.

About You

We’re seeking a motivated and forward-thinking professional with the following strengths:

• Strategic Insight: understanding of the policy and regulatory landscape in Scotland and the UK, and the challenges and opportunities faced by our clients and partners in decarbonising domestic buildings.
• Technical Expertise: knowledge of home retrofit including energy efficiency and the whole house approach, individual and collective low-carbon heating systems and experience in estimating building energy ratings and home energy modelling packages such as PhPP.
• Project Delivery & Management: a track record of delivering high quality analysis and recommendations in written and verbal format and delivering excellence in project management in a professional, research or consultancy role.
• Business Development: experience in developing client relationships, writing bids and tenders, and helping to secure contracts and funding .
• Communication & Collaboration: strong communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging with diverse stakeholder groups.

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

While we welcome candidates with expertise across all these areas, we encourage applications from individuals with strengths in some and a willingness to grow in others. Dependent on experience, an offer may be made to the successful candidate at the Senior Researcher grade with the opportunity to develop into a Consultant.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Closing date for applications: Midday, Wednesday 10 September 2025

Interviews: Week commencing 15 September 2025

For further information about this post please contact Fabrice Leveque at [email protected]

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