Grants Officer - Community Projects

The Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the Community Projects team within the Highways Division.

The role is to manage the Cleaner Greener Safer grant process and oversee and monitor a varied portfolio of community led, capital projects within the Borough.

This role includes project monitoring, finance management, and active liaison and engagement with local communities and elected representatives.

The individual we are seeking needs to be motivated to help local community groups deliver a large number of physical projects in an urban/inner city area.

About Southwark 

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population. 

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do. 

To succeed you will need to have experience of the grant funding and monitoring process with the ability to present information to the public, colleagues and councillors in a way that is easily understood and wins support.

Applicants are strongly advised to familiarise themselves with the Cleaner Greener Safer programme – www.southwark.gov.uk/cleanergreenersafer

If you want to have a chat about this great opportunity please contact Dagmar Tolonen on 07950509184 or email dagmar.tolonen@southwark.gov.uk.

Additional salary details

Benefits:

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities.

This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment

Recruitment timetable

Closing date: Sunday 28 April

Interview and assessment date: Wednesday 8 May 2024

Guaranteed Interview Scheme 

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria: 

- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans 

- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care 

- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition 

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council. 

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