Project Officer
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HAYLEA’S UNBEATABLE SPIRIT
Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible.
Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it’s clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in.
The Role:
As a Project Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution delivering a range of programmes that fundamentally help to improve London’s air quality. This is a significant problem, which Cross River Partnership (CRP) has taken on to make our city a better place to live, work and visit. Because without action, London’s residents and businesses will suffer. And that’s where you come in.
As a council, we’re fully on board with CRP’s vision to improve London for everyone. You’ll focus on maximising service quality while ensuring the continuity of systems, processes and any recurring projects and contracts. Regularly collaborating with organisations across London, you’ll provide advice and guidance to colleagues and managers, lead dedicated teams and prioritise workloads to ensure all managed projects reach their objectives.
A vital part of this role is making the most of the beneficial links between CRP’s ongoing programmes including Clean Air Logistics for London and Smarter Greener Logistics. By collating data, writing reports and regularly presenting performance updates and outcomes, you’ll ensure the CRP is always working closely with its Business Improvement District.
Joining a small team, you’ll work to help deliver CRP’s goals, supporting freight-led action to improve air quality and encourage wider organisations to proactively participate. From independent businesses to large chains to hospitals, your work will provide support for a range of projects the CRP deliver surrounding transport, place making and general wellbeing. Additionally, you’ll contribute to marketing material and social media campaigns, as well as the development of funding applications.
About You:
With relevant academic qualifications and a history of working with partnerships in the public, private and voluntary sectors, you’ll be comfortable delivering complex projects. Your broad knowledge and understanding of sustainable development pairs perfectly with your ability to communicate innovative ideas with the wider team and influence a range of stakeholders.
Diligent, professional and empathetic, your collaborative mindset supports your excellent people skills. You develop trust and respect quickly, and have the capacity to breakdown, prioritise and delegate your workload.
With demonstrable experience using web-based data collection tools, you’ll be able to conduct in-depth research, analyse data sets, and develop strategies and plans of work to successfully deliver your objectives.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to over 250,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters of a million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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Interview date: 3 May 2024
Contact details for an informal discussion: Sefinat Otaru, Clean Air Thames Project Manager, 07966 201750, or via email: SEFINATOTARU@CROSSRIVERPARTNERSHIP.ORG