Community Development Assistant

Community Development Assistant
Hulme (Manchester)
£23,951 per annum
Fixed term position for 12 months

Working with our client you’ll see the difference you make to people’s lives and local communities. They manage more than 12,000 homes across their proud city. But there’s so much more to them than that. They build thriving communities and places where people want to live. They help people to learn, manage their money, launch successful businesses and improve their employability.

This newly created role has been established on a fixed term contract for 12 months to assist in the development of a range of new and innovative projects that support their place development plans including a timebanking scheme.

Your main focus will be supporting community groups and other stakeholders to make effective use of community assets, collecting relevant data to enable ongoing evaluation and continuous improvement of their activities as well as providing a range of administrative support.

You will need to hit the ground running so applicants must have demonstrable experience of effective partnership working coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

You will require excellent administrative, IT and organisational skills together with a sound knowledge of statutory and voluntary services at a local level with the ability to develop and manage projects independently. 

If you have the experience, skills, enthusiasm and passion for this role they would like to hear from you. In return they offer excellent conditions of service and an opportunity to make a real difference.

Interviews/assessments are expected to take place on Wednesday 18 September 2019 and you will need to be available on this date if shortlisted.