Community Development Coordinator - Housing

Community Development Coordinator - Housing 

North Somerset

£22,036 per annum

37 hours per week, permanent 

Happy to Talk Flexible Working

• Can you deliver exceptional face-to-face customer experiences?
• Do you easily build effective relationships with a wide range of people including customers, colleagues and community partners, with an ability to influence and negotiate?
• Do you have the skills to really listen to and recognise what it is that our customers really want and be committed to achieving the best possible outcome?
• Do you enjoy working as part of a team to tackle loneliness across diverse communities? 

If your answer to these questions is yes, we have an exciting new job opportunity that could be for you.

Background

Curo are one of the largest landlords in the South West and are ranked in the top 50 of The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Not-for-Profit Organisations to work for in the UK.  We care about our colleagues and can offer you a competitive package of employment working as part of a great team.

What you'll be doing

You’ll be connecting people to their communities providing advice, information and support as well as volunteering opportunities to people over 50 in North Somerset. 

You’ll work with health partners, the Voluntary Sector and local community groups to help people reconnect with where they live and to positively impact on health, loneliness and isolation.

You’ll lead a team of Wellbeing Workers and Village Agents based across North Somerset, who work with a caseload of customers in the same localities.

More about you

You’ll be engaged with your local community and want to give something back, together with a passion for working with people from different backgrounds.

You’ll demonstrate positivity and the ability to lead a team of Wellbeing Workers and Village Agents.

You’ll need a good knowledge of North Somerset services and communities and excellent people skills. You will have experience of engaging with communities, the ability to build strong local partnerships and a commitment to developing and sustaining local groups and activities.

You’ll be practical and have the ability to get great results.  You will have excellent people management skills and an understanding of the challenges of managing a remote working team.

At the same time you will demonstrate resilience and the desire to work in an interesting environment where no day is ever the same!

We will need to take up an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check for this role which we will do for you when you start.

When and where you'll be doing it 

You will be able to work flexibly, Monday to Friday, based on our customers’ needs.

You’ll be based in the North Somerset.

What will you get in return?

We think you’ll have a job that makes you feel good about what you’re doing – you will make a difference to our customers’ lives every day. 

You’ll get:

• A day’s leave on your birthday
• 26 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) rising to 29 after 3 years’ service 
• Opportunity to earn performance related pay
• Company Pension contribution of up to 10%
• Flexible Benefits including health care, gym membership, buying holiday  

Here at Curo we are about getting the right candidate for the right role, however we recognise that as an organisation we are underrepresented in certain areas. Therefore we operate the disability confident scheme to encourage disabled applicants and we welcome applications from candidates who are BAME or LGBTQ+.  We also welcome applications from Curo customers.