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Community Asset Researcher

2 months ago

Colchester, United Kingdom University of Essex Full time

**KTP**

**THE PROJECT**

The University of Essex, in partnership with Community360 (C360), offers an exciting opportunity to a graduate with the relevant skills and knowledge to improve the societal impact of this Essex-based anchor organisation in the voluntary and community sector (VCS). This post is fixed term for 30 months and is based at Community360’s offices in central Colchester, with some hybrid working.

**DUTIES OF THE POST**

The duties of the post will include:

- Expanding and establishing a formalised framework for evaluation of C360’s Single Point of Commissioning (SPOC) innovation, in collaboration with partner stakeholders including Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
- Developing tools and techniques to enhance a programme of asset mapping to build a conclusive picture of available resources at the county and at community levels, and work with local partners to maximise the output of these resources
- Implementing C360’s medium-long term strategy, setting the organisation on a sustainable growth trajectory, while ensuring core values and ethos remain fundamental to how C360 operate
- Engaging with C360 and its partner organisations to co-create and help mobilise a Community Archive as a shared asset

The post holder must have:

- Undergraduate level degree or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and experience of different approaches to handling data, with a particular focus on qualitative research
- Experience of being able to take initiative in a project or research process
- Some understanding of the structure and function of the voluntary and community sector, non-profits and philanthropy
- Some understanding of the Voluntary and Community sector funding landscape
- The ability and willingness to engage in knowledge exchange activities
- The ability to organise events
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal for different audiences
- Excellent problem solving skills including the ability to analyse complex information and summarise appropriately.
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work as part of a team
- A strong commitment to collaborative approaches to research and practice
- A well-articulated commitment to the value and strategy of C360
- Confidence in using IT systems and learning new software
- Ability to develop understanding of the requirements of VCS funding frameworks and design structures to meet them
- Ability to develop understanding of records management or archiving
- Ability to share the findings of the research widely with C360 partners and run workshops with the C360 leadership team for knowledge exchange
- Ability to write for and present to a range of audiences including academic and practitioner audiences

**BENEFITS**

As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:

- A personal development budget of £5000 (exclusive of salary).
- Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
- An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
- Full access to university resources to complete the project.
- World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 30 months

**Salary**: £32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Winsley's House High Street Colchester Essex, CO1 1UG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 30/05/2023
Reference ID: REQ07367

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