ESG Project Manager

Job Description

Inspired PLC\n\nInspired PLC is a UK market leading technology enabled provider of energy and sustainability advisory services. Since 2000, it has grown in scale and capability and is servicing over 3,400 UK and Irish clients across all sectors.\n\nTo enable businesses to respond to the climate emergency, we focus on solving their toughest challenges. By managing data comprehensively, sourcing energy sustainably and reducing carbon efficiently, we allow our clients to control costs effectively, make authentic ESG disclosures, improve their business performance, whilst powering their journey to net zero.\n\nThis role is ideally suited to a career minded, ambitious individual who is looking for that unique opportunity to prove what they can do and then be rewarded for it.\n\nWe are seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to join our ESG department.

This role is pivotal in driving the successful execution of ESG initiatives across the organisation, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations.\n\nThis is a Home Based role with some occasional travel to the office required.\n\nRole and Responsibilities\n\nLead and manage ESG-related projects from initiation to completion, including sustainability programs, social impact initiatives, and governance improvements.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ESG and project management principles into business operations.\nDevelop detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.\nMonitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.\nPrepare and present regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders.\nEnsure compliance with relevant ESG regulations, standards, and reporting frameworks.\nSupport the development of ESG reporting and disclosures, through project and cost management.\nFacilitate workshops and training sessions to promote awareness, understanding and implementation of project management.\nForecasting of the QA Team’s workload, allocating forecasted work to team members, re-planning the forecasting and allocations due to unforeseen circumstances, balancing workload and calculating team capacity.\nAllocating work to team members when work is submitted for review at the different stage gates and communicating to the relevant teams the timelines for the review process.\nUpdating the QA programme after each project stage gate has been completed, to provide a live status update of the delivery programme for all teams and ensuring that the associated booking request forms have been submitted accurately to prevent errors and data loss.\nEscalate delivery issues to the relevant manager and director to minimise delays and deliver client services on time and within budget.\nCollate monitoring, evaluation and learning data from each client deliverable and staff member monthly. This framework will input into 360 feedback, manage performance and contribute to continuous improvement.\nCollate project delivery and stage gate updates for monthly board meetings.\nHost daily meetings with the delivery team Managers, to support workload forecasting, minimise delays and escalations.\nProject manage the review of client deliverables using the Directorate’s software tools.\nCollate weekly management information on the status of deliverables, escalations and forecasting for the current and upcoming weeks.\nGenerate monthly cost reports for reviewing client services, by analysing timesheets to ensure that projects operate within budget.\nCollate the team’s expenses and process associated invoices.\nPlan the ISO 9001 quarterly internal audit.Experience and Qualifications\n\nEssential:\n\nDegree in STEM discipline or equivalent.\nprofessional experience and qualification in Project Management (PRINCE 2, etc).\nAbility to process complex technical data and concepts into client-ready information.\nAdvanced user of the Microsoft Office Suite, notably specialist in Microsoft Excel.\nAbility to forecast workloads, meet client deadlines, prioritise, escalate potential risks, manage costs and understand financial implications.\nFour+ years of experience in project management in consultancy or analytical roles.Desirable:\n\nAwareness of and interest in climate change mitigation, Net Zero strategies and the global / policy drivers.\nExperience of environmental data.\nTwo+ years of experience of project management in consultancy or analytical roles, focusing on ESG, carbon or broader environmental management (flexible for the right candidate).What we offer\n\nTraining and development opportunities\nCompany pension\nLife insurance\n4pm finish on Friday\nAccess to a wide range of voluntary benefits through our Inspired Benefits PortalIf you are interested in the role and would like to be considered, please apply now and a member of our In House Recruitment Team will be in touch. Good Luck