Local Development Officer
Proposed Interview Date: Monday 19 August 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Contract Type and Location:
Post 1 - Permanent based in Kirkcaldy
Post 2 - Temporary until June 2025 based in Glenrothes
Salary: FC8 £38,950.71 to £42,686.23.
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Job Details
You will be responsible for the creation and implementation of Neighbourhood Development Plans within specified geographies of the area.
Through engagement with local people, local services, partner agencies and elected members you will facilitate collective working and planning to deliver the aspirations of the Area Local Community Plans within specified neighbourhoods.
Secondment requests are welcome for Post 1.
A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.
The Person
Working as part of the Area Community Learning and Development Team, the Local Development Officer will work closely with the Community Development Team Manager, and lead the initiation, development, and initial delivery of Neighbourhood Development Plans within identified areas, engaging with a wide range of services and partners and with local communities. The successful candidate will join the team and the Area Community Planning Partnership at a pivotal time as we look to target, shape, and develop services that address the ambitions and needs of our communities more effectively. The successful candidate will take the lead on the development of the neighbourhood plans, ensuring smart targets, new opportunities and improvement work is captured within the plan with a strong focus on community engagement and partner solutions for delivery and tracking outcomes. This is an influential position that will help shape the future of local partnership planning and make a positive contribution to people’s lives.
Key tasks include:
- With key stakeholders, initiate and lead the development of a SMART neighbourhood action plan.
- Engaging with, advising, and influencing colleagues, partners, and stakeholders at all levels.
- Leading and facilitating effective community engagement activity.
- Delivering a diverse range of projects and programmes of work with others.
- Creating engaging and informative reports, presentations, and other materials.
- Analysing impact to determine the direction of future planning.
- Full details are provided in the role profile (link below).
- You will work from the offices available to the team within the area.
Professional, flexible, supportive, and open to the opportunities of change, the candidate will have:
- A track record of successful multi agency working.
- Experience of effective community engagement.
- Experience of funding acquisition.
- A track record in developing and monitoring models of evidence-based planning.
- Ability to effectively collect, analyse and interpret data and information and develop/present solutions and engaging reports.
- Project planning, delivery, and excellent communication skills.
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
- Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
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We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time
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