Community Project Officer
37 hours per week
Base: Stoke on Trent or Tipton
Salary £18,534 per annum
At Groundwork West Midlands we pride ourselves in being a family friendly organisation and offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, a health cash plan scheme, a generous workplace pension, parking and free refreshments. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced project officer to join our team to support the development and delivery of a portfolio of Groundwork West Midlands Community Team projects. This role will primarily involve supporting the delivery of a number of funding programmes across the West Midlands region including: Tesco’s Bags of Help and the Comic Relief Community Fund.
As part of this role you will:
- Delivery a range of Groundwork Community projects.
- Promote and support applications for grants and support successful groups
- Monitor projects performance against funders requirements
- Raise awareness of the programmes amongst communities and other organisations
- Coordinate and support grant decision making panels
- Work with a wide range of partners from all sectors of the community.
You must have an interest in one or all of our core areas of work along with an understanding of the economic and social needs of residents living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the challenges facing grass roots community organisations.
To apply, please complete a Groundwork West Midlands application form.
By contacting: 0121 530 5503 or by emailing: wmrecruitment@groundwork.org.uk
Closing date: 4th November 2019
CV’s will not be accepted unless accompanied by our Application Form.
An Enhanced DBS check will be carried out for this post.