Economy Projects Coordinator

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils has anexciting opportunity for an Economy Projects Coordinator - Culture and Visitor to join our Economy and Business Team.  You will join us on a full time, fixed term or secondment opportunity for 2 years. In return, you will earn a competitive salary of £29,269 - £33,945 per annum (pro rata for part time)

About the Economy Projects Coordinator role:

You will lead on coordination and support for projects across the two districts, working within the Economy and Business Service and liaising closely with other Council departments, existing attractions, cultural organisations and key partners. 

Your role will help to boost the visitor economy and enable more people to access leisure, culture and heritage whilst increasing footfall and spend in our market towns and attractions. 

Responsibilities as our Economy Projects Coordinator:

• Create and launch new thematic offers and itineraries such as Food and Drink, Visual Arts and Landscape, Screen Tourism, ‘Little America’ Military Heritage, Dark Tourism, and accessible tourism, ensuring this is promoted to specialist audiences.
• Develop seasonal sustainable travel options, linking stations to villages and attractions, alongside better promotion of existing Community Rail Partnership in Babergh and set up of new partnership in Mid Suffolk. 
• Develop itineraries themed around offers working with travel trade for International Visitors and Visit East of England
• Develop ‘Field to Fork’ campaigns with key partners - link to project around foodie markets and food & drink festivals to promote local food and drink offers.
• Understand existing and develop new niche getaway opportunities linked to sustainable tourism - MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions). 
• Actively communicate using various platforms to help inform and promote events, initiatives, and news across the districts. 

What you need to be our Economy Projects Coordinator:

Applicants must be educated to degree level in a related subject or able to demonstrate appropriate experience gained in a similar working environment. 

Extensive experience of working with local community and business/other groups is essential as well as knowledge of town centre, tourism, arts, culture or heritage issues, locally, regionally and nationally. 

You must be able to work on your own initiative, be highly organised, a creative thinker and have a good understanding of visual design, photography and audio as tools to engage specific audiences.

There is great potential for you to make this role “your own” and to bring new ideas and creative thinking to help shape how we deliver our cultural and tourism activities. 

The successful person will share our values, commitment, and motivation to make a difference for our residents, visitors, businesses and communities. 

About us

Recently awarded UK Council of the Year at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils work together with our partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors to provide excellent services to our 190,000 residents. 

We are proud of the role we play in creating the environment, economy, and communities for our districts. We believe that the heart of Suffolk is an incredibly special place to live and work. With picturesque market towns, 60 conservation areas and with two National Landscapes within our districts, it is little wonder that we are consistently within the top 50 places to live in the UK.

In return, you’ll enjoy:

• Great opportunities for learning and development.
• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 26 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays).
• Competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Wellbeing Support Programme.
• Employee Assist Programme.
• Health Care Options.

Our ways of working

Work is what we do, not where we go! We are committed to working in a more Hybrid way, with a mix of office, home, and remote based working (Business needs permitting). This has worked well for us and is something we will be continuing with.

We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils provide opportunity and ambition for all, supporting and enabling our people to deliver the best possible service for our residents.

Closing date: 5pm, 4 June 2024.

If you think you have what it takes to be successful in this Economy Projects Coordinator role, even if you don’t meet all the requirements, please apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.