Community Engagement Officer Full Time

Do you have skills and experience in Community Engagement? Are you seeking opportunity to operate in this role with passion and motivation to make a tangible impact?

This might be the right one for you. We are currently accepting CVs for the vacant post with the details below:

Job Title :Community Engagement Officer

Job Category :Communications & Media

Category :Agency Workers

Client Location :The Woolwich Centre

Justification :Project – short term

Deadline: Wednesday June 17 2026 at 17:00

Purpose of Job:

a. Making certain that community and sector stakeholders have opportunities to engage

b. Supporting the use of innovative solutions for community engagement that are seen as industry leading

c. Ensuring engagement activity is delivered within agreed quality and time parameters and meets the requirements of both the council and communities

Main Duties:

Community engagement

1. Play a supportive and proactive part in the organisation of communities and stakeholder engagement events, ensuring they are well managed and attended, delivered on time and within budget constraints

2. When necessary, support and provide advice to colleagues within the council for their engagement activity and be available to collaborate with them on the delivery of their own engagement plans and projects

3. Research and establish if required and facilitate when appropriate the development and delivery of community and public meetings, forums and focus groups independently and alongside potential third sector organisations (face-to-face and online)

4. Support the stakeholder community in being involved in engagement activity and Royal Greenwich colleagues by sharing the tools necessary to effectively contribute to engagement activities and consultations

5. Support, develop and implement a range of involvement initiatives both based on a menu of different engagement options that seek to engage stakeholders and communities on their terms and in ways that they feel comfortable to express their views

6. In a personalised and community centred approach, continually review the ways that we involve hard-to-reach groups and provide suggestions for improvements utilising non-traditional forms of engagement

7. Foster great community relationships with Greenwich organisations, sector groups and associations, the third sector, charities and internally across directorates

8. Facilitate and co-ordinate benchmarking activity

9. Ensure community organisations, partners and the third sector are all able to participate in engagement activity, and be involved in the co-designing of activities when appropriate

Communications and events

10. Support the creation of engagement activity materials as necessary for communications to communities and relevant stakeholders, ensuring that the information is clear, provides the right level of detail and avoids the use of jargon

11. Support and feed into the development of events within the community and the council to maximise engagement opportunities

12. Propose new community engagement events to support Council priorities

Monitoring and administration

13. Undertake any administration, reporting, monitoring and data management of engagement activity contributing to the centrally managed data collection process

14. Contribute to the ongoing annual engagement and consultation forward plan

Post and sector

15. Contribute to the development of procedures for the engagement and participation team as a whole

16. Adhere to safe working/health and safety practices in a role that carries out of office/lone work

17. Attend project, activity and team meetings to ensure all stakeholder needs are considered, during the design and delivery of activities

18. Deputise for the team as needed and when absent in the postholder’s own service areas

19. Produce and upkeep an engagement log which registers all engagement activity

20. Keep up to date with sector changes for continuous improvement to the delivery of this post’s workload

21. Ensure delivery of engagement activity in line with Royal Greenwich’s community engagement

framework, strategy, annual plan and Our Greenwich with the aim of increasing the impact and effectiveness of engagement

Other

22. To undertake any other work appropriate to the level and general nature of the post’s duties.

23. Where necessary for the job role or appropriate for continued development in the role, the post holder may be required to participate in training and development courses made available via the Council’s Apprentice Levy funding.

24. To undertake all duties with due regard to the provisions of health and safety regulations and legislation, Data Protection/GDPR, the Council’s Equal Opportunities and Customer Care policies.

25. To perform all duties in line with Council’s staff values showing commitment to improving residents’ lives and opportunities, demonstrating respect and fairness, taking ownership, working towards doing things better and working together across the council.

26. To ensure that appropriate levels of emergency planning and business continuity management preparedness are in place for the service, and that your teams are appropriately briefed on their roles in an emergency.”

27. You may be required to undertake alternative, additional or ancillary duties from time to time or transfer to another service department within the Council as the Council may reasonably direct to meet service user demand in the event of a crisis or emergency.

Requirements:

-Enhanced DBS

-(HCC) Degree or equivalent level of experience

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £22.71-£23.44 per hour

Experience:

• Council and Housing Association properties letting: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (required)

Work Location: In person