Environment Officer - Clean Heat

Salary: £42,912 - £49,155 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience

Location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP

Closing date: 14 September 2025

Job Reference: WCC622078

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE’S PASSION AND DEDICATION

The Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.

It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco-friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.

When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer, Climate Emergency, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens’ Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we’re holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision-making.

The Role:

As an Environment Officer: Clean Heat you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s greener future. You’ll be working at the heart of our ambitious plan to become a net zero carbon Council by 2030 and achieve net zero for the City of Westminster by 2040. Supporting strategic management, governance and oversight, you’ll focus on the clean heat deliverables of our climate programme. This means you’ll help to support greater local energy resilience, promoting the roll-out of low carbon heating infrastructure within Westminster and beyond, and ensure this is delivered through a just transition. More than 80% of Westminster’s emissions stem from the energy used to heat and power buildings, so you stand to make a huge impact on the quality of life in our borough.

Playing a vital, hands-on role as you work to deliver the commitments set out in our climate emergency action plan, you’ll help to manage and ensure the progress of actions around clean heat activity, working with councils, service areas, delivery partners and stakeholders throughout Westminster to deliver a clean heat transition. Committed to building and maintaining positive partnerships with a number of internal and external stakeholders, you’ll also have the opportunity to support work outside Westminster, including providing clean heat delivery functions on behalf of other central London authorities.

As our understanding of how to tackle the climate emergency grows, our action plan and associated deliverables will continue to evolve, and you’ll have the opportunity to be a part of this process and contribute new suggestions. We’ll also ask you to help build our evidence to support the decisions we make, and use your own experience to guide our clean heat approach. Join us in this role and you’ll make a positive difference to the lives of everyone who lives, works and plays in Westminster, and gain valuable experience to support the ongoing development of your career.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be a success in this stimulating role you’ll have a genuine passion for environmental sustainability and climate change issues, and in addition to the skills to take a fresh perspective on the subject, you’ll be ready to challenge ways of working and plan for the future while delivering existing project workstreams. It goes without saying that you’ll have plenty of experience of clean heat and heat networks, environmental sustainability and climate change issues, and well-developed knowledge of the latest legislation, policies and best practice.

Ideally, you’ll have good experience of successfully delivering clean energy and low carbon heat projects and work packages, and have the ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with a diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders. Capable of supporting strategy development and drawing on expertise and evidence to support the creation of new actions and aims, you’ll be exceptionally skilled at making informed decisions and driving progress, while working flexibly in a fluid, dynamic environment.

Committed to delivering work that offers great value for money and maximises the benefits delivered, you’ll have the ability to prioritise and manage tight deadlines and provide the insights necessary to analyse complex information or data. You should also be ready to work both independently and as a key member of a close-knit, highly collaborative team. And thanks to our agile and flexible approach, you’ll benefit from a combination of office and home-based working, with some evening and weekend work required to support council meetings and engagement events.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

Interview date: Weeks Commencing 6 October 2025 and 13 October 2025