Cap Adviser

Job description

Overview of the role

This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in helping to reduce underage drinking and related harms to communities in South West England. Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is looking to employ the services of a dynamic, results-oriented person with great people skills to set up at least 6 CAP projects in high harm areas of the South West by the end of 2024.

The successful applicant will have a track record of building effective partnerships, the people and communication skills to involve and engage a wide range of local stakeholders and the leadership and project management skills to support projects through each phase of their lifecycle including baseline evaluation, action plan delivery, post intervention evaluation and maintenance/sustainment. After a short handover period the successful applicant will be expected to oversee fast-track development of new CAPs in priority areas and take responsibility for all aspects of their management with mínimal supervision.

Key Responsibilities
- Proactively identify opportunities for new CAPs and facilitate set up of new CAPs in priority areas - a minimum of 6 new projects by 2024
- Ensure that all new CAP projects carry out appropriate and timely interventions and evaluate all activity in line with the CAP evaluation toolkit - including a baseline and post intervention evaluation

Specific duties to include the following:

- Represent CAP at all operational meetings
- Ensure that Retail of Alcohol Standards Group (RASG) member companies play a full delivery role in each CAP where they operate as businesses.
- Liaise as appropriate with strategic leads within local enforcement authorities and other partner organisations to initiate and complete agreed actions
- Encourage all projects to achieve positive local media coverage including via social media and regional news/broadcast media
- Ensure that all projects carry out as a minimum a baseline (pre-CAP) evaluation and post intervention evaluation following the CAP evaluation framework and project management survey tools
- Produce a monthly progress report on all schemes and pipeline activity
- Attend and participate in regular CAP team meetings by teams (x8 pa)
- Assist with event planning and profile-raising opportunities such as MP visits to CAP projects

Skills, attributes and experience
- Key to the role will be the ability to facilitate effective and dynamic partnerships involving key partners from any/all of the following sectors: local authorities, education, child protection, social services, public health,, police, retailers and licensing
- Excellent organisational and sound project management skills
- Great people skills with the ability to build consensus and motivate partners to play a role in timely delivery of an agreed action plan
- Act as an ambassador for CAP at meetings and events including parliamentary events
- Excellent presentation and all-round communication skills
- Capable administrator with the ability to keep accurate records including data collection around outputs and impact evaluation

Report to: CAP Director