Community Engagement Officer

6 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

The Growth Company’s (GC) Progression into Inclusive Employment team (PtIE) have an exciting opportunity for a Community Engagement to work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote engagement, generate referrals and complete initial referrals to the service.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Raise awareness of the service through targeted marketing and outreach activities to increase the number of referrals.
- Working in partnership with the Integration Coordinators to deliver effective engagement and meet referral targets.
- Develop and implement a range of activities to generate new referrals including cold calling (telephone and in person), completing follow up calls, attending events/ road shows, identifying potential referring partners and making introductions.
- Verify participants’ eligibility for the Programme.
- Distribute promotional leaflets.
- Liaise with Key Workers who will maintain service delivery with all organisations as they become engaged.
- Complete initial assessment paperwork including documentation to check eligibility for the Programme as well as the initial assessments required
- Accurately record all participant records including inputting participant details onto ESyncs system.
- Adhere to all quality, equal opportunities, health and safe and safeguarding policies and procedures.

**About you**:

- Have worked with a range of agencies to promote and disseminate information to generate referrals.
- Ability to organise and coordinate of a range of promotional events.
- Good knowledge of the barriers faced by families with multiple barriers to employment and progression towards employment.
- Must have a strong interpersonal skill to deal with participants.
- The ability to work under pressure in a highly performance driven environment.

**Skills Required**:

- Have excellent interpersonal and promotional skills, telephone manner, good organisational skills, and excellent IT skills.
- Flexible approach to work including willingness to travel and working outside of office hours.
- Ability to work to challenging targets and key performance indicators.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £28,420.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Paid volunteer time
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: On the road

Reference ID: 3834



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