Community Engagement and Inclusion Officer

5 months ago

ChesterleStreet, United Kingdom Durham Cricket Foundation Full time

Durham Cricket Board, the governing body for cricket in Durham, exists to lead, inspire, and influence the growth, quality and accessibility of cricket. We are recruiting enthusiastic, passionate, and professional individuals to join our teams to deliver on our strategic plans, Chance to Shine, and ECB Programmes. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

**Main Responsibility**

1 Growing a community offer of cricket amongst more diverse communities.

2 Setup, resource and manage local projects using others to deliver our diversity action plan.

3 To grow, support and widen all forms of Cricket being played in the area by influencing and supporting clubs and developing new partnerships.

4 Work to develop opportunities and structures to facilitate and ensure Cricket is a Game for All.

5 Support the ethos of our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.
- TRANSFORM CRICKET IN DURHAM INTO A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE FEELS THEY ARERESPECTED, BELONG AND ARE TREATED FAIRLY_

**Responsibilities to support the above outcome.**

1. Planning

a. Work with community groups to create a plan to engage new local communities with cricket.

b. Develop connections with community leaders to generate new links and connections with community groups.

c. Use best practice from other sports and work collaboratively together.

2. Street Projects

a. Run schemes in deprived communities which will create local street opportunities, signpost talent and offer grassroots participation for indoor winter and all year-round provision.

b. Support/manage street Projects (Boys & Girls).

c. Retain and sustain current (pop up) offers.

d. Attract funding to sustain projects which require deployed coaches.

e. Recruit volunteers/ to make sessions sustainable.

f. Collect and report on each project’s outcomes.

g. Ensure all data is uploaded accurately and in a timely manner onto the online reporting portal.

h. Link participants where appropriate to Clubs & the Pathway

3. Connect all street and local ‘pop-up’ work as satellite projects to mainstream cricket clubs.

a. Support/develop cricket clubs offers with National Programmes.

b. Support clubs/Players to join or enter teams into local cricket leagues.

c. Support clubs to link with local communities.

4. Disability cricket development

a. Work with our Disability Inclusion Officer (Super 1s).

b. Assist in the growth of the Lord Taverners’ projects.

c. Create links with and grow number of ECB champion clubs.

d. Support the growth and development of our Visually Impaired team

5. Develop strong connections with identified strategic clubs and or communities to:
a. Set up and management of strategic All Stars bursary projects.

b. Set up and management of strategic Dynamos Intros projects.

6. Develop opportunities from non-mainstream / Midweek leagues.

a. Affiliation.

b. Support clubs governance.

7. Liaise with other Durham Cricket diversity schemes as appropriate in each area.

8. Set up delivery in schools to support the above work, using Chance to Shine resources.

a. Plan a schools programme linking into C2S street hubs.

b. Promote Cricket in schools.

c. Link with Authority Sports Development departments.

9. To complete online monitoring and other reports as required by funders.

10. To build positive working relationships with communities and cricket clubs and work tosupport our wider development outcomes.

11. The role will require other duties to be performed from time to time. Attendance at team meetings and events will be required.

**Management**

The post will be line-managed on a day-to-day basis by the Development Manager.

**OTHER CONDITIONS**

The post holder will be based at Seat Unique Riverside. Due to the nature of the work the post holder will carry out his/her duties as such times/days which are most effective to perform the tasks required. This will involve some out of hours work - evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays, as necessary. There will also be significant travel around the region to meet different organisations.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN EMPLOYMENT POLICY STATEMENT**

We recognize and value the difference and individual contribution that people make to the organisation. We strive to ensure that diversity as well as equality is embedded in all our policies, procedures and practices, responding to employees’ needs and encouraging employee development to increase their contribution to effective service delivery.

**SAFER RECRUITMENT POLICY**

**HOURS**

Full Time, 35 hours per week

**SALARY**

Starting at £24,000

**HOLIDAYS**

28 days per annum (pro rata) which includes the 8 statutory Bank Holidays in England & Wales.

**PENSION SCHEME**

Automatic Enrolment into the Royal London Group Personal Pension Plan. Matched employee contributions up to a maximum contribution of 5% of Basic Salary.

**WORKPLACE**

Durham Cricket, Seat Unique Riverside, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3QR

**TO APPLY**

If you would

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