Community Fund Manager

Job Description

At ScottishPower, we're committed to delivering a better future, quicker. Our Community Funds are a key part of that mission-supporting local communities, enabling inclusive growth, and driving positive social impact across Scotland.

As Community Fund Manager, you will lead the strategic delivery of our community investment programmes, ensuring alignment with regulatory and stakeholder expectations. You will manage a team of experienced Team Managers, each responsible for delivering specific elements of funding programmes, and oversee the successful deployment of funding to maximise community outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement an overarching strategy for Community Funds, ensuring alignment with government policy and regulatory guidance.
• Team Management: Lead and support several Team Managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture across all programme teams. Determine the process and resource requirements to successfully manage community funding ensuring that SPEN are protected reputationally, and that stakeholders, funders and applicants are effectively managed.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with local authorities, community groups, charities, and internal stakeholders to ensure the fund delivers meaningful and measurable benefits.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure robust governance, reporting, and compliance with funding criteria, regulatory requirements, and internal policies. Own the development, due diligence and management of all external contracts for SPEN's high profile community funded projects, ensuring that they limit risk for the business and that all contractual deliverables are aligned to the contract with the regulator.
• Impact Measurement: Oversee the development of KPIs and impact frameworks to monitor and report on the social, economic, and environmental outcomes of funded projects.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance programme delivery, streamline processes, and innovate in community engagement and funding models.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience in managing large-scale community investment or grant programmes.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing multi-tiered teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into operational delivery.
• Knowledge of sustainability, social value, and community development principles.
• Experience working in or with regulated industries is desirable.

As a minimum, you will demonstrate:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience of managing and influencing external and internal stakeholders at senior management level in the organisation.
• Experience of managing community engagement or community funding.
• Ideally, relevant experience in utilities.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective at planning and organising.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously. We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.