Community Investment Lead

Community Investment Lead 

£35,000 

Chelmsford, Essex 

Permanent, Full Time  

We are looking for a Community Investment Lead to deliver and develop services that help customers live, happy, healthy, safe and connected lives in cohesive communities.  By providing day to day implementation of CHP’s Community Investment Strategy and activities across the areas where we operate and with the people who live in our homes. 

What you'll be doing 

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  Provide customers the best opportunity to enhance their lives and reach their full potential through well designed initiatives, collaborating closely with other agencies. This could include, for example, enabling people to develop digital, employability, language, numeracy and financial skills and providing volunteering, entrepreneurship and wellbeing opportunities and advice. 

  
  


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  Design and deliver community investment initiatives, working closely with internal colleagues and external partners to meet the needs of our customers and their communities. This includes outreach, training, employment and resident engagement initiatives. 

  
  


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  Take responsibility for day-to-day management of Parkside Community Hub and help to develop the activities offered there. This includes the supervision and development of the apprentice and a dotted line of supervision to the community engagement and investment coordinator. 

  
  


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  Keep accurate records of all community investment activities and their take up. 

  
  


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  Research and propose new project ideas and assist in the development of delivery plans within the team. 

  
  

What we are looking for 

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  Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes. 

  
  


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  Interest of community investment and development. 

  
  


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  Experience of working with the community or voluntary sector, with the skills to motivate the community to get involved. 

  
  


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  Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

  
  


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  An ability to build and maintain relationships based on trust and respect. As well as being able to communicate with and relate to people of all levels. 

  
  

Committed to equality of opportunity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.  

Applications for job share and part-time working will be considered on a business needs basis. 

Benefits 

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  The salary for this post will be £35,000 Per Annum. 

  
  


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  Learning and development opportunities 

  
  


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  Healthcare cash plan 

  
  


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  Robust employee reward and recognition programme 

  
  


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  Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme 

  
  


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  CHParticipate volunteering programme 

  
  


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  Wellbeing day per annum 

  
  


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  Competitive pension scheme 

  
  


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  25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays and 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year. 

  
  


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  37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need. We operate a hybrid working policy at CHP. 

  
  

The Company 

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. 

We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.