Description
Assisting in the development, management and delivery of St Osyth Priory and Parish Trust’s outreach to local communities.
Working closely with the Education Manager, this role will support the St Osyth Priory and Parish Trust education and engagement ambitions. The successful candidate will provide day to day support to the Education Manager and assist in planning, supporting and delivering activities from the action plan - most importantly developing relationships and partnerships within local communities as part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund project. This role forms part of the wider Development team. The post holder will report to the Education Manager during the Development Phase.
We anticipate the Activities & Community Engagement Officer working closely with the Activity Planner and Evaluation, Economic and Social Value Consultant in the Development Phase.
Working Hours: 28 hours per week. Approx 10 month contract
- Knowledge about heritage experiences
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to give confident and persuasive public presentations.
- Ability to design and deliver meetings and workshops to achieve specific outcomes.
- Ability to adapt scientific and technical information to the needs of audiences.
- Confident and effective in building relationships with different stakeholders and
- maintaining a strong network of contacts.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to effectively time manage complex projects.
- The ability to work unsupervised, providing timely evaluation and reports on activities carried out.
- Ability to organise oneself, and possibly volunteers, in order to meet stringent delivery deadlines.
- Ensure delivery of St Osyth Priory's community engagement and activity plan.
- Develop relationships with people and community groups, identify needs, implement programmes that meet those needs, and find and coordinate project delivery partners as the lead facilitator for a variety of community engagement projects (art organisations or 3rd sector groups)
- Work with the Education Manager to create engaging, inclusive participatory activities and events that allow marginalised voices and opinions to be heard, action plans to be developed, and participants to feel respected, challenged, safe, and empowered.
- Monitoring, evaluating & recording social & economic impact of each project.
- Working to ensure that the Priory has accurate information about our activities and how we are meeting The National Lottery Heritage Fund and matching funder criteria, as well as reporting on how the new building(s) and programme can best satisfy local needs.
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