Community Resources Lead - Stratford, United Kingdom - L&Q

Description

INTERNAL ONLY VACANCY – THIS VACANCY IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO EMPLOYEES OF THE L&Q GROUP AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES. ANY APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FROM EXTERNAL CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE PROGRESSED.

Title: Community Resources Lead
Contract Type: Permanent Part Time Hours: 14 hours per week (2-3 days per week)
Reporting Office: West Ham Lane, Stratford Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40% (Including one day onsite at

Lewington Community Centre, Lewisham) Salary: £13,961 per annum (£34,904 per annum pro rata)

Closing date for applications: 29th April 2024 at 11:59 pm

We currently have an opportunity for a Community Resources Lead within our L&Q Foundation team.

The L&Q Foundation was set up ten years ago, bringing all our social and economic programmes under one departmental roof to maximise our impact on residents and communities. L&Q Foundation overseas programmes to support tenants and their families, offering employment and tenancy support services and developing aspirational and educational opportunities.Our motivation is to create positive, lasting change for our residents to help them live healthy, independent lives in thriving communities.

The Community Resources Lead is an integral part of the wider Community Asset London Team who look after seven community centres across a varied geographical area. This particular role will provide effective day-to-day management for L&Q's community centres and provide a professional, inclusive and knowledgeable service to users of the centre.

This is a great role for someone who is customer focused and loves interacting with people. L&Q's Community centres are at the heart of the community and no two days are the same.

You should be well organised, able to work independently as well as part of a team and have a real passion for helping people. We are looking for someone with drive and enthusiasm to promote L&Q community centres to potential hirers.

The key responsibilities of the Community Resources Lead are to:

·Lead on centre inspections in accordance with procedures and maintain all associated registers and records.

·Ensure that centres comply with Health and Safety and other legal requirements to operate safely.

·Work collaboratively with internal colleagues and teams, local residents and user groups to ensure an efficient and customer focussed delivery of services relating to the centres within your region.

·Work with internal and external stakeholders to maximise income produced by L&Q community centres through the provision of projects and activities that respond to local needs.

·Promote and raise awareness of the centres to increase activity levels.

·Work collaboratively with Community Centre Assistants ensuring the smooth running of our community centres.

·Budgetary responsibility

To be successful in the role, you'll need to be able to demonstrate:

·Exceptional customer service skills in a busy community setting with experience of managing a community asset

·Experience of community development or working in partnership with community organisations

·Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

·Experience managing budgets

·Good IT skills and record keeping

The post holder will need to hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle insured for Business Use.

If this sounds like you then don't delay, we would love to hear from you.

For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for a Basic Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team. Further information about the Disclosure scheme can be found at