Chief of Staff

Elgin Values Core Behavioural Responsibilities For All Employees Agility We Lead with Agility Integrity We Act with IntegrityExcellence We Empower ExcellenceCareWe Value Care Job Description We’re looking for a highly commercial Chief of Staff (CoS) to act as a key partner to the CEO, materially increasing their effectiveness by converting Elgin’s strategy into clear priorities, decisive action, and measurable outcomes. The COS will lead mission-critical cross‑functional initiatives, actively challenge and shape strategic decision-making, and ensure management focus is consistently directed at our highest-value priorities. You’ll act as a central integrator between Elgin, our international offices in Dublin, London, Rome, and Munich, and our main shareholder, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the world’s largest dedicated greenfield energy investment fund manager, with over EUR 37bn raised. This is a senior, high impact role with significant exposure to our Board and investors. The CoS will own and execute critical corporate workstreams, taking responsibility off the CEO, and providing high-calibre intellectual and commercial challenge across strategy and execution. What you will do: Strategy & planning Develop and sustain an enterprise roadmap of strategic corporate and departmental priorities, holding management accountable for execution. Challenge and optimise our strategic objectives and our approach to execution, ensuring a consistent focus on value creation and risk management. Own the annual strategy cycle, working with management, investors and the Board to translate the long-term business plan into clear Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that drive project delivery and EBITDA growth. Lead ongoing performance management to ensure individual, functional, and corporate objectives are met. Executive operations & governance (e.g. Executive Leadership Team (ELT), RemCo) Lead preparation for Board and investor meetings, ensuring teams develop materials that are clear, decision-ready, and focused on strategy execution and business performance. Improve organisational decision-making and execution by leading the ELT operational cadence, including setting the agenda, reviewing pre-reads, and managing post-meeting outcomes. Support governance of Board Sub-Committees and internal committees, ensuring teams deliver high‑quality packs with robust analysis. “Connect the dots” across the organisation by bringing the right people together, resolving interdependencies, and removing blockers. Program & portfolio oversight (enterprise‑level initiatives) Lead time-sensitive and high-impact strategic initiatives and CEO-sponsored projects. Work with ELT members and Heads of Function to maintain a unified view of delivery across internal and external and internal priorities. Help identify and resolve cross-functional risks, issues, dependencies and decisions. Communications & stakeholder management Develop highly effective working relationships across the organisation and with our investors and corporate partners. Draft and shape company-wide CEO communications, including town halls, leadership updates, and investor messages, across written and presentation format. Consistently raise the bar by shaping exceptional decision-making materials. Data, insights & tooling Support the ongoing optimisation of the CEO / ELT dashboard i.e. a concise, trustworthy “single source of truth” for key company data. Lead an ongoing focus on data accuracy across teams; ensure inputs are timely, definitions are consistent, and insights inform decisions. Your profile What you will need: Experience Extensive experience operating in a consulting or banking environment, with strong project management and problem-solving experience. Evidence of operating at pace with senior leadership teams and Boards / external Investors. Exposure to multi‑country governance is desirable. Ideally sector experience in energy, infrastructure or industrials, or familiarity with the renewable asset lifecycle (development to operations), project finance concepts (capital stack, lenders’ needs), PPAs, grid or permitting. Skills Execution: Project and task management across multiple teams and have a “get it done” discipline. You will have a track record of taking loosely defined questions or problems and turning them into an approach and completed actions. Problem‑solving: Structured thinking; able to comfortably move between detail and the big picture. System thinker: Able to design repeatable, holistic, processes and actions. Influence: Earns trust quickly and manages through influence, not authority. Strong stakeholder management across functions and organisations. Able to act as a team player, supporting the ELT to execute their agenda’s. Communication: Exceptional slide deck production, crisp writing, and executive storytelling. Financial & analytical: Model‑literate; comfortable interpreting budgets, dashboards and KPIs. Tools: Office 365 (Excel/PowerPoint/Teams). Experience of project tooling (Planner / Project / Smartsheet) and BI (Power BI) is desirable. Behaviours High integrity, sound judgment, discretion with sensitive matters. Learning agility, inclusive and globally minded. Resilience and a bias to action. High sense of personal responsibility and humility Qualifications Degree in business, engineering, finance or similar; MBA / CFA a plus. Project / program management credentials (PRINCE2/PMP/Agile) or similar practical experience advantageous. What Success Looks Like (first 9 - 12 Months) Optimised operating cadence: The ELT and the wider business have a finely tuned operating cadence that has delivered improvements in efficiency and effectiveness e.g. improved the speed of decision making and delivery, accurate and available reporting, improved communication across the business. Strategy into outcomes: Company‑level OKRs have been decomposed and embedded into teams and individuals’ objectives; the ELT have good insight into the progress towards meeting the OKRs. Positive Board engagement: Consistently strong feedback from Board / Committees that relevant workstreams and materials are being driven effectively, with top quality reporting and decision packs. Cross‑functional delivery: At least two cross-functional initiatives have been accelerated or delivered. Time allocation: More of the CEO’s time has been focused on the top three strategic goals. Practicalities Base location: Dublin; hybrid working aligned to ELT and CEO cadence. Travel: 1 – 2 short trips per month expected to other Elgin sites. Eligibility: Right to work in the UK and Ireland. Compensation & benefits: Competitive base, performance‑related bonus and benefits; long‑term incentive eligibility aligned to seniority and policy. About Us Elgin is a fully integrated, utility-scale solar and storage Independent Power Producer, developing, building, owning and operating renewable energy assets across the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. With a 10GW+ pipeline spanning solar, co-located and standalone storage projects, Elgin brings projects from origination through development to energisation and long-term operation. The company has delivered over 1GW of ready-to-build projects, with more than 200MW currently under construction across the UK and Ireland. Elgin is backed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), which acquired a majority stake in 2024, supporting the company’s long-term growth and ambition to scale. Founded in 2009, Elgin operates from offices in Dublin, London, Ulm and Rome, with a team of over 100 professionals driving the delivery of large-scale renewable energy projects. For more information, visit www.elgin.com.