Job Summary
Operating Company Logo: St Joseph Homes
Title: Partnership Manager
Function: Land & Planning
Location: Colmore Row, Birmingham
Position Type: Permanent
Job Purpose:
St Joseph Homes are looking for an individual with community engagement experience to help shape and deliver the community development strategy across all of our sites with a focus on the Ladywood regeneration project. This individual will play a key role in working with, enhancing and developing the communities to ensure that the right people, structures and organisations are in place and involved to ensure long-term social sustainability. Working with and between key public, private and voluntary partners, the post will bring about lasting social, economic and environmental improvements for the benefit of all in the very diverse community of Ladywood and its surrounds.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Initiate, develop and support delivery of practical projects to respond to environmental, economic and community needs of Ladywood.
- Develop and deliver the Community Plans across our projects and support the development of community forums, led by residents with the aim to enhance their own communities.
- Build strong and creative relationships with residents, community groups, local projects, and local businesses in order to progress with our community development strategies.
- Support in community consultations and participation in the regeneration area and shape the agenda to enable local people and organisations to develop their ideas and take them forward.
- Support and promote the development and implementation of practical projects that promote community cohesion, health and wellbeing, environmental sustainability, training and employment, social mobility.
- Encourage the development of new ideas and initiatives, and enable them to be turned into practical action where appropriate.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with key public, voluntary and community agencies.
- Develop the capacity of residents to initiate and participate in local projects.
- Continually consult with, and inform local residents of community project initiatives, encouraging resident involvement in projects where appropriate.
- The role will include the promotion of the construction industry as a whole to local primary schools and secondary schools. This could include contacting schools to ask to attend assemblies, careers talks, jobs, apprenticeship fairs etc.
- Maintaining relationships with careers advisors to ensure repeat visits to raise awareness on career paths for both trade and non-trade opportunities.
Technical Competencies:
- Engaging with different communities (either through work or volunteering).
- Working with economically deprived communities.
- Working with and/or within multicultural communities.
- Building and sustaining effective partnerships.
- A degree in Community Development studies OR at least 5 years practical experience within the voluntary or statutory sector.
Person Specification:
- Imaginative, creative and entrepreneurial approach to work and life.
- Understanding of, and empathy with, equal opportunities policies.
- Dynamic, open, participative and supportive leadership style.
- Team worker with the ability to inspire.
- Strong communicator, comfortable in leading discussions with internal and external stakeholders.
- Reliable, tolerant, and determined.
- Full UK driving license.
- Flexible to different working times and days.
Other:
- The role will be head office based, however, the candidate is expected to work closely with the technical and production teams which may require attending project offices from time to time. It will also naturally involve a lot of remote working within the community.
- The responsibilities listed above are subject to change as required by the demands of the job.
- Our standard working hours are 8am until 5pm Monday to Friday although we do operate a flexible working policy which covers core hours and home working arrangements.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £36,068.00-£60,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
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