Overview

Energy Saving Trust is seeking a Senior Consultant to develop and deliver high quality evaluation and research projects. You will work closely with colleagues in the insight and evaluation team, across the business, and with external clients. This range is provided by Energy Saving Trust. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

What you’ll do

• Develop and implement a work plan for evaluating and reporting on Energy Saving Trust activities.
• Provide technical expertise on research and evaluation methodologies.
• Support the development of new evaluation and research opportunities, designing suitable methodologies and identifying resource requirements.
• Build effective and collaborative relationships with key clients in government and the wider public and private sector, potential partners, and across Energy Saving Trust.
• Work with others in the insight and evaluation team to ensure ongoing, existing evaluations feed into the overall Energy Saving Trust reporting.
• Maintain and develop excellent knowledge of developments in evaluation and research methods relevant to Energy Saving Trusts work and mission.
• Support junior team members and advise Energy Saving Trust colleagues drawing on your specialist knowledge

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge and experience of using evaluation and research techniques at a high calibre, including logic models, various types of sampling, data collection, a bank of analytical techniques, statistical tests, and other research tools.
• Experience of designing appropriate evaluation or research methodologies which cover various types of quantitative and qualitative data and analysis
• Experience of developing new proposals for research and evaluation projects according to client specifications
• Experience of managing multiple research and evaluation projects for internal or external clients
• Analytical skills including analysis of qualitative data and use of packages such as Excel, R or SPSS
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to take responsibility for own work, self-reliant and self-motivated
• Demonstrable ability to act with integrity and always display high professional standards

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with additional leave earned through length of service
• Three extra days off over the Christmas period as a gesture of goodwill
• A competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Flexibility in our ways of working – work from home, in the office, or a mix of both, depending on your role
• Two paid volunteering days per year – a chance to give back to the causes that matter most to you

Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

Relevant information

Applications close 9am, 3 November 2025. Interviews are intended to be held week commencing 10 November 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please click 'apply online' via our recruitment portal. We will ask for your personal details, work history and a supporting statement. Applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.

In your supporting statement please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job description. Applications submitted via email or without a supporting statement will not be considered.

Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch. We will do our very best to support you.

Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.

We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for a role.

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