Description & Requirements

Job Title: Sustainability Performance Lead

Location: Aberdeen or Edinburgh (Hyrbid)

Reporting to: Head of Environmental Sustainability

Number of Roles Available: 1

Company Overview:

Join Great British Energy and be part of powering the UK’s Clean Energy Future.

At GBE, we’re not just building an energy company – we’re shaping the future of the UK’s energy landscape.

Our mission is clear:

Drive clean energy deployment across the UK as a strategic developer, investor, and owner of renewable projects

Deliver benefits for communities and taxpayers, ensuring the clean energy transition creates jobs, boosts local economies, and increases public ownership

We focus on innovation, sustainability, and impact, working on projects that matter – from large-scale national renewable investments to empowering local and community energy initiatives.

Joining GBE means

Purpose-driven work Be part of a national effort to accelerate the clean energy transition
Career growth Opportunities to develop expertise in cutting-edge energy technologies and strategic investment
Collaboration and flexibility Work with passionate professionals in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment

If you want to make a real difference and help power a greener, fairer future for the UK, GBE is the place for you.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

About the Role:

Great British Energy is looking for a Sustainability Performance Lead to join our GBE Strategy Directorate – Sustainability Team. This role will play a key part in contributing to projects, objectives, and wider organisational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of GBE’s organisational greenhouse gas inventory, including defining boundaries and methodologies, coordinating data collection, documenting assumptions and controls, improving data quality and preparing evidence for internal review and external assurance.
Own and coordinate GBE’s Carbon Management Plan, translating the corporate emissions baseline into prioritised actions, responsibilities, milestones and measurable targets, and monitoring delivery and corrective action.
Develop and maintain GBE’s corporate sustainability KPI framework, working with metric owners to define methodologies, baselines, targets, data sources and governance, and ensuring alignment with wider impact and organisational performance arrangements.
Build or contribute to accessible dashboards and management information that enable senior leaders, governance forums and delivery teams to understand performance, trends, data limitations and areas requiring intervention.
Coordinate high-quality sustainability inputs to GBE’s Annual Report and Accounts, Impact and Sustainability Reports and other statutory, government or reputational disclosures, maintaining a clear evidence trail and supporting proportionate assurance.
Develop and implement practical methodologies and improvement plans for measuring and managing embodied and supply-chain environmental impacts, working with Procurement, Supply Chain, Development, Investment and relevant delivery partners.
Monitor and interpret relevant policy, regulatory and good-practice developments, including the GHG Protocol, PCAF, CBAM and EPR, and advise on their relevance, implications and proportionate application to GBE.
Provide technical advice, tools and capability-building to data owners and delivery teams; commission and manage specialist support where required; and promote consistent, efficient and auditable sustainability performance processes across GBE.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

Experience translating sustainability or environmental commitments into measurable KPIs, baselines, targets, delivery plans and management information that supports decision-making.
Experience working in sustianability or environmental management in large complex organisations in the public and/or private sectors
Proven track record of data management across a large complex organisation and experience coordinating complex data and reporting inputs across multiple business functions, constructively challenging gaps and improving the quality, consistency and auditability of evidence.
Ability to interpret technical standards, policy and regulatory developments and convert them into clear, proportionate recommendations and workable organisational processes.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work confidently with incomplete or evolving data and communicate limitations without losing focus on action.
Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to explain technical sustainability issues clearly to senior leaders, non-specialists, delivery teams and external advisers.
Strong programme, planning and prioritisation skills, with experience managing interdependent workstreams, deadlines and specialist support in a developing organisational environment.

Desirable:

Familiarity with financed emissions, embodied carbon, supply-chain environmental impacts, sustainability assurance and/or public-sector or regulated reporting environments.

Personal Qualities:

Takes ownership, shows confidence in decision-making, and is willing to challenge constructively

Focuses on delivering meaningful outcomes and making a positive, lasting impact

Works collaboratively, valuing different perspectives and building inclusive relationships

Proactive and adaptable, with a curiosity to explore new ideas and improve ways of working

Resilient and resourceful in a fast-paced environment

What We Offer:

Competitive base salary
Performance-related bonus scheme
Excellent pension scheme
4x salary life assurance
Group income protection
38 days annual leave
Flexible working arrangements
Ongoing professional development and training
Supportive, inclusive working environment

How to Apply:

For further information please contact:

Rebecca Nolan

Principal Sourcing Specialist

rebecca.nolan@weareams.com

PSRpermapplications@weareams.com

Application Close Date: 27th November at 23:55pm

General information

Posting ID

Type of employment

Permanent

Organisation

Great British Energy

Salary Banding MIN

£ 64000

Location

Edinburgh

Salary Banding MAX

£ 69765

Workplace Type

Hybrid

Public Sector Resourcing jobs

Sustainability Performance Lead