Awards Coordinator

Salary: £47,816 per annum 

Location:  Based in Ashden’s London office (Victoria) with the option to work from home  

Contract: Full-time fixed term contract (6 January to 29 August). 

Please find full job description here.

About Ashden  

Ashden boosts climate innovation in the UK and Global South. Our support brings clean energy to African villages and refugee camps and fixes up the UK’s cold and draughty homes. It makes schools more sustainable, and helps communities protect and restore the nature around them.  

We're looking for someone to manage delivery of the 2025 Ashden Awards. Awards are central to our work accelerating innovative, inclusive climate solutions. They bring organisations prize money, publicity, and connection to funders and investors – while raising ambition across the climate sector and beyond. 

About the Role 

Your work will include delivering Ashden’s 2025 awards and collaborating with colleagues to set the process by which we choose our winners. You will oversee our communication with finalists, and support panels of expert judges to decide our champions. 

You will also collaborate with colleagues to ensure delivery of a high-profile awards ceremony in London next summer. You will support our international award winners as they visit the UK to take part in that event and lead the integration of all our 2025 winners into Ashden’s ongoing projects and programmes.  

Your responsibilities will include development and oversight of the relevant budget. You will report to the Editor. 

What you will be doing: 

• Working with colleagues on Ashden’s programme teams to deliver the awards process. 

• Overseeing the assessment and judging process; winners liaison; planning for integration into support programmes.  

• Work closely with Ashden’s fundraising team to ensure the sponsor requirements are met.  

• Management of awards budgets, including contracts with suppliers. 

• Generation of insights and data through the awards process to feed into the organisational monitoring, evaluation and learning process. 

About You 

You’ll thrive in this role if you: 

• Can manage projects lasting several months and involving multiple colleagues, external consultants and stakeholders. 

• Are a leader, with skills to bring together, motivate, coordinate and manage a team. 

• Are willing to take accountability and work in a self-managed way. 

• Would like to grow your experiences and skills and make a positive contribution to Ashden’s success. 

• Are flexible and carry out other associated duties as my arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the position. 

• Are not afraid to try new things and openly reflect on successes and failures. 

It is also desirable (but not necessary) for you to have: 

• Technical knowledge of sustainable energy. 

• IT skills, in particular Microsoft Excel. 

• Experience with MS Office Suite systems. 

How to apply  

Taking note: research shows that while men tend to apply for jobs when they meet around 60% of the criteria, women and marginalised people tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still apply.  

We use Applied, a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. You will be asked three work sample questions which will be scored anonymously by the recruitment panel along with a redacted version of your CV. Once all the applications are scored, we make a shortlist for interview.

If you have accessibility needs and would prefer to email us the responses to the questions, please email people@sfct.org.uk. The aim of this approach is to make this opportunity as accessible as possible and ensure a diverse range of people are able to demonstrate their potential. 

Timeline

First interviews will take place online on Monday 4 November, and will be 45-minutes long.

Second interviews will take place in person on Thursday 7 November, at our office in Victoria, and will be 1-hour long.

We will reimburse candidates for their travel costs.

FAQ 

• Why is this a fixed-term contract? 

  We are running a special 25-year celebration of our Awards in 2025 while we look at relaunching our Awards in 2026, and need someone to manage the 2025 programme. 

• Can people outside of the UK apply for this role? 

  No. We are unable to sponsor visas, and can only accept applications from candidates who have the right to live and work in the UK.   

• Can I ask for feedback on my application? 

  Due to the volume of applications, we can only provide individual feedback to candidates who are invited to interview. 

If you have any questions about the role or the process, please contact people@sfct.org.uk