Apprenticeship training course

Community energy specialist (level 4)

Helping communities work together to reduce energy use and costs. Promoting energy efficient heating.

• Qualification level: 4 ; Equivalent to higher national certificate (HNC).
• Typical duration: 24 months
• Apprenticeship category: Business and administration
• Maximum funding: £6,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • Community and corporate engagement: Organise and coordinate meetings, workshops, and events with community groups and champions, enabling engagement with private enterprises, local, and national
  • Leadership: Demonstrate full familiarity with the community in order to coordinate all stakeholders in a community energy project and ensure the pogression of actions in the project through to
  • Negotiation: Engage and influence people on the telephone and in person, from community volunteers to those in executive positions, effectively handling objections and encouraging support for community energy
  • Communication: Generate a range of media appropriate to the community energy sector such as social media posts, blogs, flyers, newsletters, and briefs to effectively disseminate information and raise
  • Public speaking: Effectively deliver presentations and engage with community members and other stakeholders at public, internal, and stakeholder
  • Project management: Select and apply appropriate project management principles and techniques to the specific context of community energy to successfully run and complete projects as part of a
  • Risk management: Identify the risks and mitigating strategies associated with community energy
  • Financial management: Use community energy specific computer software to assist in financial modelling and accounting of projects, interpreting information from the financial models to drive community energy projects to
  • Project funding: Identify and apply the correct community funding approach to a project’s
  • Site and building evaluation: Identify the most suitable renewable energy technologies and/or efficiency measures for implementation on a community
  • Report writing: Develop clear, structured, reports of action to support the project, tailored for community energy audiences that may not have detailed knowledge of technologies and
  • Data analysis: Conduct market research, and collect and analyse data to justify projects and evaluate their outcomes, for example identifying local potential for community investment and suitable sites for
  • Problem solving: Anticipate issues arising from the changing community energy marketplace and use a range of problem solving techniques to to address challenges faced in the development of community energy
  • Administration: Provide administrative support for community business development and operations, effectively maintaining client records and project
  • ICT skills: Effectively use a keyboard, operate standard Office software and learn/use relevant other IT programmes as required

Full information on Community energy specialist (level 4) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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