Community Development Coordinator
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,000 to £50,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £39,841 - £41,938 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Location: | SW2 4AX |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MTVH193675 |
Summary
This Role: Community Development Coordinator known internally as a "Regional Community Coordinator"
Salary Banding Range: £39,841 - £41,938
Location: Lambeth
The role
Reporting to the Regional Manager, Community Impact , the purpose of this role is to engage, support, and empower communities experiencing multiple barriers. The work of this post holder will shape local plans to build appropriate infrastructure to address local inequalities. The post holder will work with internal and external colleagues to ensure that community needs are fully addressed utilising relevant specialist support and baseline data to inform the development of success measures in each local area. The post holder will have responsibility for work in South London, including managing and developing a range of services in our community centres.
What you'll need to succeed
We need an individual with experience of Community Investment who can build trust with local communities to empower them to thrive. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and facilitation skills and experience of delivering hard targets within a performance driven environment. They will have a track record of supporting communities with multiple issues and barriers and of providing coordinated holistic services with a good working knowledge of the issues affecting those who are living in social housing. In addition, they will have experience in developing funding proposals, commissioning partners and using insight to inform their work. We are looking for an agile team member who will need to travel and address community investment across the London Borough of Lambeth. This is a values driven role and you will need to bring enthusiasm and passion to make a real difference for our residents and communities.
Access to transport & a licence are essential for this role.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about community work and dedicated to fostering positive change for individuals and communities.
Interview date: 19th and 20th August 2025
To meet our commitment to providing a safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete a Standard background check with the Disclosure and Barring service once an offer of employment is made. This will be renewed on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of the application will be paid for by MTVH as part of our on-boarding process.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme