Ward Officer

Job Introduction

Do you have the skills to motivate citizens within their localities to make positive contributions through developing engagement and involvement opportunities to encourage active and responsible citizenship and strengthen community relations? Can you bring together residents, businesses and public sector and other organisations, working alongside councillors, to problem solve to develop innovative projects to tackle entrenched issues in neighbourhoods and across constituencies, to produce positive outcomes that improve residents’ quality of life?

You will be responsible for developing and implementing Ward Plans, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, coordinating the work of Council and partner services within localities at a ward- and neighbourhood-level. The successful candidate will support the deployment of staff and other resources, providing specialist support and guidance to front line workers as required.

We are looking to recruit someone who is able to:

• Motivate people to take action
• Understand community engagement principles
• Lead projects that result in positive outcomes
• Lead effective multi-agency and partnership working that creates extra value in service delivery
• Co-ordinate and facilitate public engagement and consultation in communities.
• Provide support and guidance to Elected Members in their community leadership role
• Manage often complex, high risk, high profile programmes of work applying innovative problem solving approaches to long standing issues.
• Organise and run large public consultation events, managing public and partner expectations
• Understand and follow management processes, managing and deploying staff teams
• Possesses experience of close collaborative working with a variety of partners from public, private and VCS sectors, including elected members
  
  You will also be required to undertake and present formal management investigations and will therefore need knowledge of performance, sickness and disciplinary processes within a complex organisation.

You should have experience of community engagement, including with groups that are often overlooked, of managing complex projects and of management processes with a degree level or equivalent qualification and/or demonstrable experience in the absence of qualification requirement.

A clear Enhanced DBS is required for this role. The role is politically restricted.

If you are interested in this fixed-term secondment opportunity, please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 describing how you feel your skills match to the role.

For informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Nadia Hussain, Area Co-ordinator for Bradford East on [email protected]

Employee Offer

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Equal Opportunities

We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee directly or indirectly on the grounds of gender, marital status, gender re-assignment, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic background, religion or belief nationality or age. And, as an equal opportunities employer, the Council strives to employ the best qualified people from a diverse range of applicants.

The RESPECT Allyship Programme is available to all staff, which offers the opportunity to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides added benefits and resources to its members.