Senior Community Engagement Officer

Our client is the fire and rescue service for London.  They seek an experienced Senior Community Engagement Officer for a minimum of 6 months, with potential to be extended to 12 months.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Community engagement and consultation
Deliver Community Engagement working with a wide range of stakeholders and
communities affected by proposals on the future of the fire and rescue service in
London.
Deliver Community Engagement working with community representatives, relevant
partner agencies and communities affected by significant fires and other emergencies
as required (contributed to an urgent assistance communications response).
Attend external meetings, including community meetings, representing the LFB and
building relationships with key community stakeholders.
General:
Assist and support the Community Engagement Manager to provide advise to internal
audiences, when required, on stakeholder and Community Engagement matters.
Participate as a member of the communications department, contributing to the
delivery and success of the departments departmental plan.
Build relationships and liaise with partner agencies, including other emergency
services and the Mayor’s team to deliver high quality Community Engagement.
Experience:
Minimum 3 years working within a large complex organisation serving a large and
diverse community.
Demonstrable experience of building and nurturing strong, consistent and purposeful
Community Engagement relationships across a complex, multi-directorate organisation.
Experience of delivering effective public consultation exercises.
Experience of the production of reports and preparation of materials for decision
making purposes.
Experience of working with hard to reach groups.
Experience of acting swiftly to engage with communities at sudden notice, in the
context of both a public and emergency service.
Experience of working as part of a team with minimal supervision and demonstrating
initiative and flexibility in order to deal with a range of tasks and find solutions to
complex problems.

Skills:

Strong interpersonal and people skills in order to engage community groups,
representatives and work in challenging circumstances.

Good organisational skills to manage workloads and ensure key performance measures
are developed and met.

Numerical and analytical skills in order to monitor budgets and contracts and provide
analysis of data.

Knowledge:
A strong understanding of what good Community Engagement looks like.
An understanding of safeguarding issues.
Demonstrable knowledge of the fire and rescue service.

An understanding of the law relating to publicity, including the Local Government
Publicity Code, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and the Government’s Code
of Practice on Publicity.
A knowledge of different kinds of Community Engagement, including developing
resources and guidance for those involved in the delivery of stakeholder and
Community Engagement.
Immediate start

£24.03 PAYE / £31.45 LTD UMB per hour

up to 12 month temp booking

Hybrid 

Full time Mon to Fri