Community Project Officer
$22,115–$34,913 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Deliver the Ramblers Getting Started element of the Walking Together Project across communities in north London, Slough, and Reading by establishing community walking programmes and recruiting potential walk leaders. Maintain positive working relationships with local partners, borough councils, and volunteers while coordinating training opportunities and managing project expenditure. Provide regular progress reports and ensure all activities comply with current legislation and Ramblers policies. Engage proactively with a wide variety of groups to build strong relationships and support the identification of further opportunities in the area.
Required Qualifications
- Experience working with a wide variety of groups and communities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- demonstrable attention to detail
- needs of different audiences
- Experience of successfully managing projects or programmes delivering against agreed objectives
- A proven track record in recruiting and working with volunteers
- Experience of designing and delivering training and support resources
- Excellent IT skills
- social media skills
- web skills
- an ability to support others to use software and programmes
- Interest in/knowledge of walking/physical activity/public health
- Ability to appropriately collect data for monitoring and evaluation purposes
- collation of associated reports
- Ability to work with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- managing requirements and expectations
- Ability to develop and lead a project
- related co-ordination skills
- planning skills
- organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- an ability to build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Skills to enable the leading of safe and inspiring group walks
- Facilitation skills
- training skills
- in-person facilitation
- online facilitation
- Ability to diagnose problems
- provide solutions
- make logical decisions
- timely decisions
- Ability to work independently
- collaboratively as part of a team
- to achieve common goals
- Interest in walking
- a commitment to the principles of inclusion
- enabling everyone to feel welcome in the outdoors
- Flexible
- resilient
- the ability to balance competing demands
- Willing to travel
- spend some evenings working
- spend some weekends working
- Willing to undertake training
- professional development
- to ensure skills are up to date
- knowledge are up to date
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