Community Assets Coordinator

Community Assets Coordinator

About Us

Resident Engagement and Participation is a relatively new service in the Council bringing together libraries, community centres, resident engagement, arts, heritage and events. It is working on key council priorities including participatory democracy, deepening the Council’s relationship with the Voluntary and Community Sector and contributing to the Community Wealth Building agenda; ensuring that we put residents at the heart of everything we do.

About The Job

This newly created post will sit within the Libraries and Community Assets Team. The successful applicant will continue the implementation of the Council’s community centre strategy and social value policy. Another key aspect of the role will be developing our Town Halls into thriving and quality venues and managing the Town Hall team. This will involve working with a range of colleagues across Council departments, making recommendations to senior managers, building a relationship with organisations occupying Council community centres and being the key contact between organisations and the wider Council. It will require excellent relationship management, administration and project management skills.

About You

You will have experience of managing venues and / or working with community venues and organisations, an understanding of the social value that they can bring to a local community through an asset based approach and ideally, experience of helping those organisations develop and capacity build. You will have excellent project management skills and experience of delivering complex projects on track, within a political environment. You will be able to establish good working relationships with a range of stakeholders –internal and external and work with them through challenging situations to deliver solutions. You will be confident presenting your recommendations verbally and in written reports to senior managers and councillors. You will have experience of managing grants or subsidies and monitoring the outcomes and outputs and also be able to exploit the commercial opportunities that then enables subsidised community provision. You will also have a keen eye for detail and maintain accurate and up to date records. You will be able to build and develop a new team Ideally, you will have an understanding and experience of building management and lease monitoring.

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Closing date 20.3.22

Additional Information

The London Borough of Newham is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview.

Newham is one of the youngest, most diverse, and vibrant boroughs in the UK. As an inclusive employer, we are committed to ensuring our workforce reflects our local population. We welcome and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, including applicants who are ethnically diverse and/or applicants who have a disability.

Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Newham Redeployees.

The London Borough of Newham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In addition, the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database, or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards).

In line with Government legislation, if the post you are applying for requires you to visit a registered care home as part of your role it is a legal requirement to provide evidence of your COVID-19 vaccination status or an exemption certificate to work for the Council. With effect from 1st April 2022, this requirement will be extended if you are applying for a job in a CQC regulated service

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About Us

The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the both the Theatre Royal Stratford East and Stratford Circus Arts Centre offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.

Newham has a large housing regeneration programme that will build over 1,000 new council homes by 2022.