Responsible Business Manager - Volunteering and Campaigns

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Be a part of something bigger and join us in powering a sustainable future. British Gas delivers innovative energy and service solutions to help solve customers’ needs. As the UK’s leading energy supplier, we put customers and colleagues at the heart of everything we do. Whether we’re installing EV chargers on driveways across the UK or introducing thousands of homes to the benefits of heat pumps, our ambition is clear. We have a vital role to play in helping the nation prepare for a sustainable, NetZero future. That’s why we need a brilliant Responsible Business Manager - Volunteering and Campaigns to help us get to where we’re going.

Supporting the Group-wide Volunteering programme in support of reaching our People and Planet Plan goal of contributing 100,000 days to support local communities by 2030 you will be responsible for the management of group tools and policies, charity volunteering partnerships and programmes and reporting requirements. Also, you will be responsible for the delivery of content and campaigns to support Volunteering and wider Responsible Business initiatives.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure volunteering partners and activities are in line with our strategy.
• Manage existing partnerships and develop new volunteering offers as appropriate.
• Produce reports to evaluate volunteering activity and its impact, and other Responsible Business initiatives.
• Work with Internal Communications to deliver communication campaigns and events to raise awareness of volunteering and encourage participation.
• Maintain comms assets including case studies and campaign assets.
• Develop content and campaigns for specific initiatives, for example the British Gas Energy Trust and Energy for Tomorrow, and maintain relevant stakeholder lists.

In this role you will build strong relationships with our charity partners as well as our internal comms teams, marketing, and corporate affairs colleagues to communicate volunteering activities and campaigns. In addition, you will work with external creative agencies to promote and deliver volunteering and wider Responsible Business campaigns.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of employee volunteering
• Experience working with charities and agencies, and managing suppliers
• Proven track record of managing engagement campaigns
• Project management experience
• Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Experience of creating assets – social media posts/case studies

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.