Digital Inclusion Officer
| Posting date: | 06 November 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 December 2024 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 6BH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75666192 |
Summary
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (2 Years)
Contract Reason: Subject to funding
Secondment Opportunity: Permanent employees are encouraged to apply and will be supported as part of our workforce development commitment
Salary: Grade F. SCP £30,060 - SCP £32,654
Hours Per Week: 36 Hours Per week
Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Tameside Council Employment and Skills Service to develop and deliver a two year programme of activities to address digital exclusion and increase digital skills within the borough.
We would love to hear from you if you have a real passion for working with communities and supporting people to gain new skills. This role is about creating and shaping digital inclusion work with people and organisations.
The aim of the role is to encourage and support local residents who lack one or more of the five basic digital skills to learn and gain confidence in their use of digital technologies. This may be by helping them engage with support already available or working to create new initiatives.
About You
We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative individual who likes to work with people and technology, with experience in organising projects such as events and workshops and who can build strong partnerships within the council and with other organisations in both the public and private sector.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 8355 or aaron.middlehurst@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT437
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