program officer Bristol, England
Bristol City Council
Full Time
Bristol, England
34723 - 31099 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Full Time, Permanent
The Regeneration Service is a progressive, multi-disciplinary team that works across Council departments, with partners and with communities to enable sustainable, inclusive growth and to harness the benefits of growth to improve residents’ quality of life.
Join us and support the delivery of new homes, jobs, leisure, local employment opportunities, social infrastructure and strategic infrastructure projects that will support delivery of Bristol City Council’s strategy to make Bristol a carbon neutral city by 2030.
What will I be doing?
You will be based within the Regeneration team covering two key regeneration areas in the city.
You’ll be responsible for supporting project managers in the planning, organisation and implementation of different high profile, complex regeneration projects contributing towards the delivery of new homes, community infrastructure, high-quality public realm and local employment opportunities. You will be expected to take the initiative to work independently on certain tasks and be agile and open-minded in your way of working.
Tasks will include:
- Planning and leading consultation and engagement events
- Commissioning and managing project work to support regeneration delivery
- Developing strong working relationships cross-departmentally internally, including with Development Management, Legal and Highways, Community Development, Communications and Engagement, Culture
- Building good relationships to address and respond to the day-to-day queries with key stakeholders, developers, local organisations and consultants
- Producing regular programme and project reports
What do I need to have?
If you have a passion for creating great places and experience of working in a project delivery environment, we would welcome an application from you. Ideally, you’ll also have experience of community engagement, stakeholder management alongside preparing, maintaining and updating project documentation such as business cases, benefit plans, risk logs and highlight reports, project communications and successfully supporting the delivery of projects.
Why Bristol City Council?
At Bristol City Council, we work together to make Bristol a better place – now and for future generations. We’re a high-profile, fast-moving organisation that goes the extra mile for our own people, too. Join us, and you’ll thrive in our supportive environment, with every opportunity to build on your existing skills and develop new ones. We also offer a good rewards package including flexible working and flexi-time, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and generous annual leave allowance.
How do I apply?
If you share our values and want to work on really exciting transformational projects and have a passion for working in partnership with communities to create great places, we would be very keen to hear from you. Please select the apply button below.
To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the person specification within the ‘Further Information’ section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
Interview dates: Likely to be w/c 31st July.
Start date: September 2023.
For informal enquiries please contact Sarah Jenkinson, Regeneration Manager [email protected]
At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the City we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
Bristol City Council
www.bristol.gov.uk
Bristol, United Kingdom
Nicola Yates
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Public
Municipal Agencies
1959
