Senior Community Engagement Officer

Job Description

Our clientis the fire and rescue service for London. They seek an experiencedSenior Community Engagement Officer for a minimum of6 months, with potential to be extended to 12 months.Main Duties and Responsibilities:Community engagement and consultationDeliver community engagement working with a wide range of stakeholders andcommunities affected by proposals on the future of the fire and rescue service inLondon.Deliver community engagement working with community representatives, relevantpartner agencies and communities affected by significant fires and other emergenciesas required (contributed to an urgent assistance communications response).Attend external meetings, including community meetings, representing the LFB andbuilding relationships with key community stakeholders.General:Assist and support the Community Engagement Manager to provide advise to internalaudiences, when required, on stakeholder and community engagement matters.Participate as a member of the communications department, contributing to thedelivery and success of the departments departmental plan.Build relationships and liaise with partner agencies, including other emergencyservices and the Mayor’s team to deliver high quality community engagement.Experience:Minimum 3 years working within a large complex organisation serving a large anddiverse community.Demonstrable experience of building and nurturing strong, consistent and purposefulcommunity engagement relationships across a complex, multi-directorate organisation.Experience of delivering effective public consultation exercises.Experience of the production of reports and preparation of materials for decisionmaking purposes.Experience of working with hard to reach groups.Experience of acting swiftly to engage with communities at sudden notice, in thecontext of both a public and emergency service.Experience of working as part of a team with minimal supervision and demonstratinginitiative and flexibility in order to deal with a range of tasks and find solutions tocomplex problems.Skills:Strong interpersonal and people skills in order to engage community groups,representatives and work in challenging circumstances.Good organisational skills to manage workloads and ensure key performance measuresare developed and met.Numerical and analytical skills in order to monitor budgets and contracts and provideanalysis of data.Knowledge:A strong understanding of what good community engagement looks like.An understanding of safeguarding issues.Demonstrable knowledge of the fire and rescue service.An understanding of the law relating to publicity, including the Local GovernmentPublicity Code, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and the Government’s Codeof Practice on Publicity.A knowledge of different kinds of community engagement, including developingresources and guidance for those involved in the delivery of stakeholder andcommunity engagement.Immediate start£24.03PAYE / £31.45 LTD UMB per hourup to 12 month temp bookingHybridFull time Mon to Fri