Community Enablement Officer - Abingdon, United Kingdom - South Oxfordshire District Council

South Oxfordshire District Council
South Oxfordshire District Council
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Abingdon, United Kingdom

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Community Enablement Officer


Salary:
£39,977 - £45,568 per annum

Contract:
Temporary until 31 March 2025


Hours:
Full time


Location:
Hybrid (Home / Abbey House)

Closing Date: 2 June 2023


The Community Enablement Team is the liaison link for the councils between voluntary and community groups, providing vital support to the sector as well as managing the council's various grant schemes.

The team currently awards over £1 million in council funding each year, in addition to supporting any additional grants received from government funding.


Alongside developing and supporting successful partnerships between internal and external stakeholders, the team offers information, guidance and assistance to support Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations to improve their resilience.

The councils' community lottery schemes are also managed by the Team. They are also responsible for processing nominations for Assets of Community Value, which is part of the Localism Act.

Main duties and responsibilities

Grant Management

  • Monitoring grants, arranging payments, updating historic grant agreements with the legal team.
Improving or develop new grant policies and processes

  • Develop and maintain knowledge and understanding of major funding sources and initiatives.
  • Reviewing revenue and partnership grant service delivery targets, financial resilience, and capture outcomes with the organisations receiving revenue/other funding
Voluntary & Community Sector

  • Act as the VCS liaison link for the council between internal and external stakeholders, and to respond to local/national issues, and business critical tasks
  • Assist in running VCS/Town and Parish Council funding events.
  • Offering information and guidance to support VCS organisations, to build collaborative approaches such as coproduced events, training, strategies for income generation
  • Promote and administer the councils' community lottery schemes
Assets of Community Value (ACV)

  • Act as the first point of contact for ACV nominations, offering guidance to all parties
  • Evaluate nominations and making recommendations on whether to list the asset
  • Maintain up to date ACV procedures, guidance documents and FAQs
Admin tasks

  • Ensure service team information on the councils' websites is up to date
  • Promote the various grants and Lottery schemes.
  • Ensure our grants software and ACV records are GDPR compliant.

Essential qualifications / requirements:

  • A degree, or other higherlevel professional qualification or equivalent vocational experience
  • Minimum two years' experience of working with budget/financial information
  • Minimum two years' experience of working with communitybased organisations and partnership working including providing customer service with direct contact with a variety of customers or organisations
  • Full driving licence and vehicle suitable for business use
  • The post holder may be required to attend evening meetings, approximately 68 a year.
Key experience, competences and behaviours

  • Experience of assessing projects against policies and/or evaluation criteria or legislation
  • Experience of analysing and interpreting financial information
  • Experience of writing policies, reports or briefing notes
  • Experience of chairing meetings or presenting reports
  • Ability to work with a wide range of people and organisations
  • Excellent, IT, numerical, written and verbal communication skills
  • A good team player who can work on their own initiative with minimum supervision, who is solution focussed
  • Able to work under pressure, prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
  • Ability to demonstrate patience, be tactful, diplomacy and adaptability
  • Aware of sensitive and political issues
If you have the following experience - it's a bonus

  • Knowledge and experience of grant schemes, processes and funding software or similar database
  • Experience of working with voluntary and community organisations and knowledge of their structures
  • Experience of updating websites and communications
About us


Our vision and values are important to the councils, and we expect you to support them and embed them in the way we work.

Our vision

We are seen as being customer-focussed, approachable and business-like. We are honest and open and are renowned for providing high-quality cost-effective services.

Our values

  • We act with integrity and show respect
  • We are all accountable
  • We are passionate about our business
  • We strive for simplicity
  • We love success
The benefits we offer

  • A basic 24day annual leave per annum, rising to 29 days after five years. You also have all the bank holidays to look forward to and time off between Christmas and New Year
  • Flexible working and annualised hours a flexible approach to work that our employees love
- salary pay awards - we review salaries each April

  • A generous career average pension scheme which includes life insurance of three times your salary
  • The opportunity to purchase a bike t
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