Community Inclusion Facilitator
1 day ago
Newport
Vacancy: Community Inclusion Facilitator Contract: 6-month Fixed Term Contract Closing date: Sunday 20 September Shortlisting: Monday 21 September Proposed Interview date: Monday 28 September Salary: £37,850.44 About the vacancy: We're looking for a passionate Community Inclusion Facilitator to empower residents, foster community participation, and help create inclusive, connected neighbourhoods. In this role you'll be working closely with residents, community groups, and partner organisations, you'll support initiatives that improve wellbeing, encourage engagement, and provide opportunities for people to thrive. As an ambassador for community inclusion, you'll help ensure residents' voices shape the services and activities that matter most to them. Specifically, in the role you will: Administration • Develop and update community profiles by capturing strengths, needs, barriers, lived experiences and regeneration priorities across neighbourhoods., • Perform asset mapping activities that identify local skills, groups, venues, networks and community resources that can support place based regeneration and thriving communities., • Collect and process engagement data, regeneration insights, case studies and resident stories to support Social Value Specialists and What Matters planning Performance monitoring and reporting • Conduct outreach, conversations and engagement activities to gather deep community insight that informs regeneration and neighbourhood improvement., • Assist with SPAR submissions, dashboards and regeneration related reports by providing accurate and timely community intelligence., • Identify performance insights that drive value for money and continuous service improvement activities. Resource allocation and coordination • Facilitate resident led conversations to identify community priorities, shape What Matters plans, and co design local regeneration solutions., • Support the delivery of inclusion and regeneration related activities that help residents connect, build resilience and participate in improving their neighbourhoods., • Support communities to take ownership of initiatives by providing guidance that helps activities grow and contribute to sustainable, thriving neighbourhoods., • Help build community confidence, leadership and capability by supporting volunteers, groups and residents to participate in local regeneration efforts. Communications • Promote community strengths, regeneration successes and local achievements to build pride, identity and optimism within neighbourhoods., • Communicate clearly and accessibly to ensure residents understand regeneration opportunities, decisions, timelines and next steps. Finance/budgeting • Monitor neighbourhood and geographical spend to ensure it aligns with social value, regeneration priorities and community engagement needs., • Apply low level spending within delegated limits to support regeneration activity, community events and resident participation., • Record and process small scale purchases, regeneration activity costs and in kind contributions in line with organisational procedures., • Engage with managers over higher-level investment decisions, identifying benefits and value for money considerations., • Update financial logs and engagement records, ensuring transparency and robust financial governance in all regeneration related expenditure Systems Management • Use and update CRM / Dynamics to record engagement activity, regeneration involvement, case studies, events, interactions and partner information., • Maintain community profiles, asset intelligence and engagement logs to ensure regeneration and neighbourhood data is accurate and current., • Record community asset intelligence - local skills, groups, venues, networks and community led resources that support regeneration and What Matters plans., • Undertake data quality checks to ensure CRM information is complete, consistent and useful for regeneration planning., • Inform managers of system issues or improvements needed to strengthen insight, monitoring and reporting. Health and wellbeing/compliance • Apply safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion principles across all regeneration and engagement activity., • Facilitate safe, inclusive and welcoming spaces where residents can participate in regeneration discussions and activities. Partnerships • Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with schools, community groups, anchor institutions, contractors and regeneration partners., • Promote and facilitate participation in partner programmes and support smooth referrals into services that contribute to community wellbeing and regeneration outcomes., • Enable community involvement in place based or environmental regeneration projects by working closely with contractors, partners and residents., • Represent Hedyn within community forums and multi agency spaces to ensure resident voice shapes regeneration planning. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) • Act as a visible and trusted facilitator to create safe, inclusive spaces where all residents can participate in shaping their community's regeneration., • Ensure service delivery meet the organisation's pledge on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion., • Promote and facilitate inclusive, strengths based and resident led approaches that reflect lived experience and support thriving, connected neighbourhoods. (Please refer to the attached recruitment pack for more information.) For further information about the role, please contact Application Process: We require an application form to be completed for every role. We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV's will be treated as a direct application. Your Hedyn, our comprehensive benefits package: We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it's important to us that our people feel the same way. As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential. We are still at the beginning of our journey. Join us to help shape it. Enhanced Pension Scheme: We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%. You are able to determine the level of contributions that is right for you. Enhanced Annual Leave: You'll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase gradually to 30 days following 3 years' service. At Hedyn, we believe that 'work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.' Flexible Benefits We have a flexible benefits package that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards the benefits that suit them. There is a wide range of benefits available to choose from including Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, the option to have your professional memberships paid for, and Electric Vehicles. We want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. JBRP1_UKTJ