Community Link Officer - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Introduction

The starting salary for this position is £40,296 per annum for working 36-hours per week.

This is a full time, fixed term (maternity cover) contract for up to one year (July 2024 to June 2025).

Are you passionate about engaging with communities and supporting them to transform their neighbourhoods? We are excited to be hiring a
Community Link Officer to join our fantastic Thriving Communities service.

Rewards and benefits

26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
A generous local government salary related pension
Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the team

You will be joining us on an ambitious journey to transform the way we engage with our residents, get closer to our communities, hold conversations and listen to concerns, while supporting their ambitions.

You will help us find ways to make it easier for communities to engage with Surrey County Council as an organisation and work alongside our partners, businesses and residents to help communities to shape the places in which they live.

About the role

You will be part of a team of Community Link Officers focused on empowering communities, understanding the ambitions of local people, joining in with what is happening and joining up people, funding, resources and assets to enable positive action to be taken forward in their communities.

You will learn the story of each community, utilising asset-based tools, techniques and local engagement to identify community strengths and opportunities.

You will assess how we can work alongside communities to make things happen.

Working with local councillors and managers, you will help to further our approach, gather community insights and share the stories from our communities internally and externally to help shape local services.

Shortlisting criteria

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about building active and participatory communities where people feel a genuine sense of ownership of the environment around them and where a voice is given to new and under-represented groups, interests and ideas.

You will be confident in building rapport with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, with a strong focus on fairness and integrity.

To be considered for shortlisting for this position your CV and answers to the questions below will clearly evidence:

Highly developed networking, interpersonal, engagement and facilitation skills
You are confident, creative and comfortable working in an agile way in response to community wishes
You are a skilled writer and teller of stories, able to pull out the "so what" from the work you are doing and using everyday language to ensure accessibility for all
Have an awareness of working in a political environment and experience of working alongside elected councillors
Please tell us about a piece of work you have delivered that required a combination of networking, interpersonal, engagement and facilitation skills?
Please tell us about your experience of using Asset Based Community Development (A.B.C.D) or other strengthbased practise?
Please tell us about a piece of work or project that you were involved with that had an impact and how you raised the profile of this project?
Please tell us about a time where you worked creatively to deliver a communitybased project or piece of work and how you addressed any challenges that you faced?
Please tell us about your experience of working in a political environment and/or with councillors?

Contact us
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on with interviews likely to occur during week commencing 10th June 2024.

An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.

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