Roles and Responsibilities
- Undertaking grassroots on-the-ground community engagement work, for example:Helping to run public events / initiatives e.g. workshops, public exhibitions, drop-ins, meetings
- Being part of a staff rota where NWS has a permanent ‘high street’ presence
- Door to door engagement with residents
- Building networks in the local community and finding out what’s going on locally
- Inputting to the development of community engagement delivery plans
- Liaising with suppliers supporting the community engagement
- Supporting the delivery of other key actions to enable NWS to engage with communities
Experience Required
- Excellent listening and interpersonal skills with high emotional intelligence
- Demonstration of empathy in dealing with range of external stakeholders
- Experience of working in a community setting with a range of stakeholders
- Awareness of local area issues
- Highly organised and good at meeting deadlines and prioritising own workload
- Experience / knowledge of grassroots community engagement activities
- Experience/ knowledge of partnership working
- Self-motivated and with high personal resilience
- Ability to travel and occasionally work outside of the standard working week, supporting events
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Experience of using a variety of communication channels, including social media
- Experience of running public events
- Use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM system)
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