Community Engagement Officer

6 months ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom Portsmouth City Council Full time

**Salary: Band**: 7, £29,777 - £33,945 p.a pro rata (£12,876 - £14,678 for 16 hours)

Up to 16 hours a week (minimum of 10 hours would be considered - to be discussed at interview).

**Your New Role**

Victoria Park has been at the heart of Portsmouth for over 140 years. The park has stood as a witness to over a century of change in Portsmouth and beyond, sometimes getting caught up in events and often providing sanctuary within its gates. In December 2021, following extensive local engagement, we were awarded £2.4m of National Lottery Heritage Funding to restore and revitalise the People’s Park. The works to provide a new community building - the 'Green House' - and wide-ranging infrastructure and planting improvement works are nearing completion and will ensure the park remains welcoming and inclusive for all its users.

We are looking to appoint a further part-time role to work alongside the current part-time Community Engagement Officer to deliver the Activity Plan of our project. As well as leading on community engagement you will liaise with relevant residents, schools and other organisations to deliver activities. You will organise and run project events and activities contracting suppliers, and working with the Communications Team to market and promote these. You will support the project manager in collecting project evaluation data and facilitate positive and effective partnerships with the clear objectives and measurable outcomes. You will also facilitate and manage meeting.

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**What you'll need to succeed**

You will have experience of managing events and Community and stakeholder management. You will be a good communicator as you will be dealing with a variety of different organisations and stakeholders. Experience of working with volunteers and excellent literacy and numeracy is required due to the work involved in the role.

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**What you'll get in return**

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

**Application process**:



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