Community Enablement Officer

Salary: £31,932 per annum
Contract: Temporary until 31 August 2025
Hours: Part time 27.75 hours a week
Location: Hybrid (Home / Abbey House)

Closing Date: 28 June 2024

The Community Enablement Team provides vital support to the voluntary and community sector through administering various grant schemes. Currently awarding over £1 million in council funding each year, in addition to supporting additional grants received from government funding. The councils’ community lottery schemes are also managed by the Team. They are also responsible for processing nominations for Assets of Community Value, which is part of the Localism Act.

Main duties and responsibilities

Grant Management and voluntary sector
• Manage the councils established or new community grants schemes. Giving pre-application advice, running grant funding workshops, processing and evaluating funding applications. Writing and presenting reports to committee
• Monitoring grants, arranging payments and improving or develop new grant policies and processes
• Reviewing revenue and partnership grant service delivery targets, financial resilience, and capture outcomes with the organisations receiving revenue/other funding
• Promote and administer the councils’ community lottery schemes

Assets of Community Value (ACV)
• Provide guidance to all parties for ACV nominations
• Evaluate nominations and making recommendations on whether to list the asset.

Admin tasks
• Ensure service team information, procedure and guidance is up to date (inc. the website)
• Promote the various grants and Lottery schemes.
• Ensure our grants software and ACV records are GDPR compliant.

Essential qualifications / requirements:
• A degree, or other higher-level professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable vocational experience
• Minimum two years’ experience of working with community-based organisations and partnership working including providing customer service with direct contact with a variety of customers or organisations.
• Minimum two years’ experience of working with budget/financial information.
• The post holder may be required to attend evening meetings, approximately two a year.

Your essential skills, knowledge and experience
• Experience of assessing projects against policies and/or evaluation criteria or legislation
• Experience in project management, monitoring performance and outcomes
• Experience of writing policies, reports, analysing and interpreting financial information
• Experience of chairing meetings or presenting reports, and running workshops
• Ability to work with a wide range of people and organisations
• Excellent, IT, numerical, written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisation and time management skills, including accurate recording of data.

Your style and behaviours

• Enthusiastic, dedicated and positive attitude
• Solution focussed, with a commitment to excellent customer service
• A good team player who can work on their own initiative with minimum supervision.
• Able to work under pressure and meet targets and deadlines
• Ability to demonstrate patience, be tactful, diplomacy and adaptability.
• Aware of sensitive and political issues
• Valuing diversity and equality, respecting customers and colleagues in all relationships and service delivery

If you have the following experience – it’s a bonus

• Knowledge and experience of grant schemes, processes and funding software or similar database
• Experience of working with voluntary and community organisations and knowledge of their structures
• Experience of updating websites and communications/marketing

About us

Our vision and values are important to the councils, and we expect you to support them and embed them in the way we work.

Our vision

We are seen as being customer-focussed, approachable and business-like. We are honest and open and are renowned for providing high-quality cost-effective services.

Our values
• We act with integrity and show respect
• We are all accountable
• We are passionate about our business
• We strive for simplicity
• We love success

Benefits
You will receive 25 days annual leave per annum (rising to 30 after 5 years service), bank holidays, plus an additional 3 Christmas closure days. These benefits, along with a competitive salary, generous pension scheme and opportunities for development make working at South and Vale a great place to continue or further your career.

You may have experience of the following: Community Enablement Officer, Community Engagement Officer, Grants Officer, Grants Manager, Community development officer/manager, fundraising officer, Community liaison officer, Community outreach officer, Project Officer, Project management, Public Sector, voluntary sector, Local Government, Local Authority, Marketing Officer, etc.

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