Community Engagement Worker

We are seeking a Community Engagement Worker to join our NWS Team!
As a Community Engagement Worker, you will work as part of a team that provides the integration between NWS and local communities engaged in the siting process for a major environmental infrastructure project – a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). A GDF requires both a suitable site and a willing community. Your work will support the activities of a GDF Community Partnership.
Developing and maintaining positive, trusted, long-lasting relationships in the local community is at the heart of this role! This role requires individuals with excellent listening skills. You will be curious and able to easily build empathy with others through your respectful approach.
No two days will be the same in this varied and demanding role. You will be part of a small, well supported team delivering Community Engagement activities in a local area.
This role will be a homebased contract with regular travel across Lincolnshire, in particular Mablethorpe and surrounding areas.

• Undertaking grassroots face to face Community Engagement work, enabling local stakeholders' opportunity to listen, learn and ask questions, such as:
• Public events/initiatives e.g., workshops, public exhibitions, drop-ins, meetings,
• Being part of a weekly staff rota where NWS has a permanent 'high street' presence.
• Being part of the team that delivers doorstep engagement with residents.
• Helping to build networks in the local community.
• Supporting the development and delivery of online engagement activities.
• Finding out and sharing 'what's on' locally.
• Supporting the development of Community Engagement delivery plans.
• When required liaising with suppliers who are supporting the Community Engagement.
• Supporting the delivery of other key actions to enable NWS to engage within the search area communities.
• Providing administration support such as data collation, CRM updates and contributing to reports.
• Contributing to wider NWS initiatives, events, conferences and meetings.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills with high emotional intelligence
• Empathy when dealing with people and other external stakeholders
• Experience of working in a community setting with a range of stakeholders
• Experience/knowledge of grassroots Community Engagement activities
• Awareness of local area issues
• Highly organised and good at meeting deadlines and prioritising own workload
• Self-motivated, with an aptitude for personal resilience
• Ability to travel and occasionally work outside of the standard working week, supporting events
• Hold valid UK Driving Licence

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office suite of software
• Experience of using a variety of communication channels, including social media
• Experience of running public events
• Use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM system)
• Experience/knowledge of partnership working

For internal candidates on RWM T&C's, this role is a 8-6.

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Who are we?
Simply put, our job is to secure a safer future for us all. We do this by managing and disposing of the UK's nuclear radioactive waste safely and securely for generations to come. We have a critical role in the biggest multi-decade clean-up project in Europe. As part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group, we provide permanent answers for nuclear waste.
Nuclear Waste Services builds on the work delivered at the Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site and the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme, maintaining these key activities whilst also adding further essential services for customers in the nuclear energy, defence, industrial, medical, and research sectors. Maintaining and developing this knowledge and experience is key to securing and developing our unique nuclear waste capabilities for the UK and the rest of the world
If you join Nuclear Waste Services, you'll be part of a team that brings together some of the most brilliant minds from around the UK, working across many specialisms - scientific, engineering, safety, operations, commercial, Community Engagement, and regulatory - to name a few.
We want Nuclear Waste Services to be a great place​ to work where people are respected, included and can perform at their best. We do this by living our Nuclear Waste Services values;
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We are action orientated ​​​​​​​- We deliver for our customers, partners, and people safely & securely.
We are collaborative and inclusive - We have greater success when we work together.
We are ambitious - We are problem solvers who embrace and act upon new challenges.​​​​​
We act with integrity - We are trusted to build a safe, secure and sustainable future

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What's in it for you?

• On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
• Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
• We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
• learning and development support
• payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial advice assistance
• Flexible working
• Extended family-friendly policies
• Cycle to work scheme
• We welcome flexible and agile working practices
• Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment

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Equal Opportunities
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. At Nuclear Waste Service we are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, Nuclear Waste Service welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy.
Please note: Nuclear Waste Services reserves the right to close the vacancy early.
If you have any queries or would like to discuss this role, please email