Community and Social Infrastructure Lead
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Civic centre and other locations from time to time
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong participatory grant making experience and strategy development experience to lead our teams, shape our work programmes and get the best possible outcomes from our grant investments. We spend more than £3m in Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy each year and have smaller local grant streams that rely on good community involvement. Our grants help us to deliver our strategies and strengthen trust and participation. The postholder will lead a team of four people to manage, monitor and administer our grant programmes effectively and bring on new ways of working that support our residents.
We are bringing forward a new Community Engagement Framework that will set the standard of engagement across the council. Already in place is a new consultation platform that has room for greater dialogue with our residents, and we need to build its usage even more. We have increased the size of our teams and are looking for an experienced leader who can work across strategy and delivery and maintain important internal, external and political relationships to deliver a good service to our residents.
The Person
We are seeking a passionate individual who is committed to delivering the best outcomes for our residents with a thorough understanding of successfully engaging with local communities through grant funding and raising the profile of local projects we fund.
You will be an effective stakeholder manager, with excellent persuasion and influencing skills to develop positive and constructive relationships with stakeholder groups including residents, businesses, the community and voluntary sector and internal colleagues.
You will be an excellent communicator, able to work closely with elected members and to lead workshops where you will give advice and guidance to community organisations. Your strategic thinking and analytical skills will enable you to draw on insights, trend data and research to develop and implement better systems and approaches to our grant management and ensure that our way of delivering grants reduces barriers that some residents face.
You will work closely with our corporate communications team to ensure internal and external communications amplify the outcomes we are delivering for our communities. You will have experience of leading teams or programmes that require lots of face to face interaction and experience of working with diverse groups.
Closing date: 2 October 2022 (23:00)
Additional Information
Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.