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Job Description
Community & Education Team Leader
Location: Selby, Drax Power Station
Are you an education or community outreach professional looking to join a forward-thinking purpose led organisation? Are you passionate about the community engagement and want to be recognised for adding real value in your role?
Drax Group is uniquely positioned to enable a zero-carbon energy future through carbon removals and renewable energy and we’re looking to build our Community Engagement Team here at the Power Station in Selby!
If this sounds good, we have the role for you!
About the role
Drax Power Station has been part of the local Yorkshire landscape since the 1970s and has been a key player in the UK energy industry since its inception. We have an incredible site and continue to chart an exciting course and we want you to help tell our story!
In this exciting new role as a Community & Education Team Leader at Drax, you’ll be leading our team of Officers to deliver first-class Community Engagement, Educational Outreach and tours of our incredible Power Station here in Selby.
Day to day you’ll supervise the activities of the community and education team at Drax Power Station across our 2 visitor centres. This will see you maintaining accurate records of staffing hours, holidays and visitor numbers whilst ensuring GDPR responsibilities are always met. You’ll also manage all aspects of the daily operations of the team covering all tours, visitor centres, vehicles, staffing and communication.
No 2 days will ever be the same in your role here at Drax!
As the Team Leader you will be responsible for the delivery of all VIP tours and will the main point of contract with our senior business and community stakeholders. Working alongside the Community and Education Manager you will develop the diversity of audiences visiting the site, targeting people from agreed sectors within the local community plan.
About you
We are looking for a confident presenter who can bring the Drax story to life, coupled with an interest or understanding in anything to do with energy, the environment, sustainability, engineering, science and education. In addition to being a confident presenter, you’ll need to have great communication skills and have demonstrable experience leading and developing a team.
You’ll be confident working in a fast-paced, agile environment. Having a Health & Safety qualification would be great in this role, though we’re more interested in candidates that have experience working within a Heavy Industry environment working within a highly regulated environment. Safety of our visitors and staff is of paramount important to us here at Drax
We are looking for someone join us on a full time basis and you will need to successfully pass a DBS check if you are successful in joining the team.
You will need to have a D1 Category Minibus license or be willing to undertake the necessary training to obtain the obtain the correct category as you will be driving our minibus on tours of our Selby site.
About Drax
Drax is playing a vital role in helping change the way energy is generated, supplied, and used. To learn more about howwe’reenabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future, click here.
Apply today to play a part in helping Drax find the talented people we need to make change for our collective future. A career at Drax is a career that makes a difference.
Application Process
To arrange a chat or a copy of the job description, please email char.brown@drax.com
If you are ready to submit an application, please hit the ‘Apply Now’ button
Location: Selby, Drax Power Station
Are you an education or community outreach professional looking to join a forward-thinking purpose led organisation? Are you passionate about the community engagement and want to be recognised for adding real value in your role?
Drax Group is uniquely positioned to enable a zero-carbon energy future through carbon removals and renewable energy and we’re looking to build our Community Engagement Team here at the Power Station in Selby!
If this sounds good, we have the role for you!
About the role
Drax Power Station has been part of the local Yorkshire landscape since the 1970s and has been a key player in the UK energy industry since its inception. We have an incredible site and continue to chart an exciting course and we want you to help tell our story!
In this exciting new role as a Community & Education Team Leader at Drax, you’ll be leading our team of Officers to deliver first-class Community Engagement, Educational Outreach and tours of our incredible Power Station here in Selby.
Day to day you’ll supervise the activities of the community and education team at Drax Power Station across our 2 visitor centres. This will see you maintaining accurate records of staffing hours, holidays and visitor numbers whilst ensuring GDPR responsibilities are always met. You’ll also manage all aspects of the daily operations of the team covering all tours, visitor centres, vehicles, staffing and communication.
No 2 days will ever be the same in your role here at Drax!
As the Team Leader you will be responsible for the delivery of all VIP tours and will the main point of contract with our senior business and community stakeholders. Working alongside the Community and Education Manager you will develop the diversity of audiences visiting the site, targeting people from agreed sectors within the local community plan.
About you
We are looking for a confident presenter who can bring the Drax story to life, coupled with an interest or understanding in anything to do with energy, the environment, sustainability, engineering, science and education. In addition to being a confident presenter, you’ll need to have great communication skills and have demonstrable experience leading and developing a team.
You’ll be confident working in a fast-paced, agile environment. Having a Health & Safety qualification would be great in this role, though we’re more interested in candidates that have experience working within a Heavy Industry environment working within a highly regulated environment. Safety of our visitors and staff is of paramount important to us here at Drax
We are looking for someone join us on a full time basis and you will need to successfully pass a DBS check if you are successful in joining the team.
You will need to have a D1 Category Minibus license or be willing to undertake the necessary training to obtain the obtain the correct category as you will be driving our minibus on tours of our Selby site.
About Drax
Drax is playing a vital role in helping change the way energy is generated, supplied, and used. To learn more about howwe’reenabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future, click here.
Apply today to play a part in helping Drax find the talented people we need to make change for our collective future. A career at Drax is a career that makes a difference.
Application Process
To arrange a chat or a copy of the job description, please email char.brown@drax.com
If you are ready to submit an application, please hit the ‘Apply Now’ button