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Community Participation Officer
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,115 to £34,314 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 February 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00926 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual with a passion for community work, to join Ipswich Borough Council’s Community Support Team. We are seeking a Community Participation Officer to deliver the aspirations set out within the Council’s Community Engagement Strategy. The role will include creating and delivering effective community engagement, co-production and consultation activities through face to face, online events, surveys, web pages and digital outlets to engage with and gather feedback from the community and stakeholders. This diverse post will also include the delivery of community safety related engagement, in line with statutory duties, and facilitating the Council’s community related grant funding.
This exciting new role has three elements to it:
Community Engagement: working closely with Council services, the role will deliver high-quality and well-planned consultation & engagement activity with residents, organisations and community groups, ensuring that diverse and seldom heard community voices are heard.
Community Safety: supporting the Ipswich Community Safety Partnership with the delivery of strategies and plans, the role will engage with a wide range of people and partner services to facilitate community safety engagement activity, in line with the Council’s statutory duties.
Community Related Funding: the role will provide efficient management and monitoring of the Councils funding support to the VCFSE sector and community organisations. Provide advice, guidance and signposting to support groups to achieve positive outcomes for local people.
This role will see you at the forefront of some of the Council’s key areas of work so, the successful candidate will need to be an effective communicator and efficient at time management. You will have the ability to engage with different stakeholders, residents and community groups and experience of organising and involving people in community activities. You will be able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and have excellent report writing skills, strong experience of working with MS packages, be highly organised and able to manage and prioritise your own workload. A flexible approach to work with a willingness to adapt as circumstances change is essential for this role. You will be a motivated team player, with a passion for engagement that includes co-production and participation of people from seldom heard groups.
You will be required to travel across Ipswich using public transport or a Council pool car.
DBS clearance is required for this role.
This post is offered on a permanent basis.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 2 days per week working in the office).
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Deborah Carr (she/her) via email Deborah.Carr@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
This exciting new role has three elements to it:
Community Engagement: working closely with Council services, the role will deliver high-quality and well-planned consultation & engagement activity with residents, organisations and community groups, ensuring that diverse and seldom heard community voices are heard.
Community Safety: supporting the Ipswich Community Safety Partnership with the delivery of strategies and plans, the role will engage with a wide range of people and partner services to facilitate community safety engagement activity, in line with the Council’s statutory duties.
Community Related Funding: the role will provide efficient management and monitoring of the Councils funding support to the VCFSE sector and community organisations. Provide advice, guidance and signposting to support groups to achieve positive outcomes for local people.
This role will see you at the forefront of some of the Council’s key areas of work so, the successful candidate will need to be an effective communicator and efficient at time management. You will have the ability to engage with different stakeholders, residents and community groups and experience of organising and involving people in community activities. You will be able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and have excellent report writing skills, strong experience of working with MS packages, be highly organised and able to manage and prioritise your own workload. A flexible approach to work with a willingness to adapt as circumstances change is essential for this role. You will be a motivated team player, with a passion for engagement that includes co-production and participation of people from seldom heard groups.
You will be required to travel across Ipswich using public transport or a Council pool car.
DBS clearance is required for this role.
This post is offered on a permanent basis.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 2 days per week working in the office).
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Deborah Carr (she/her) via email Deborah.Carr@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
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