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This role has a starting salary of £38,746 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week. This is a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity. The Communities and Prevention team at Surrey County Council are seeking a highly motivated and organised individual to join the team as a Communities and Prevention Project Officer. This role offers a hybrid model of working, with remote, office-based and in community locations as required by the role. Rewards and Benefits 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' serviceOption to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leaveAn extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeingUp to 5 days of carer's leave per yearPaternity, adoption and dependents leaveA generous local government salary related pensionLifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per yearLearning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources About the Team The Communities and Prevention team work to empower communities and build community capacity, so that more people are participating, engaging and having a role and a say, and no one is left behind. To this end, we have 6 priorities: Connecting people to support and to each other, creating opportunities for social inclusion and connection.Growing inclusive and accessible community-based preventative support.Empowering residents' resilience and skills for self-care.Realising the benefits of nature for everyone.Supporting mental and emotional health and wellbeing.Enabling inclusive employment. About the Role As Communities and Prevention Project Officer, you will lead on all aspects of the project life cycle, while using your communication skills to collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders. You will be passionate about the wider preventative agenda and take an innovative approach to empowering communities. Your attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and ability to multitask will be essential for success in this position. This role will particularly focus on developing support for people with dementia and their carers to live well in their community. The projects you work on will support these priorities and will therefore be varied and co-produced with a variety of stakeholders. Examples include: Developing information champions within local VCSE organisations who can support people with dementia and their carersDelivering training to carers and professionals to develop their understanding of dementia and how best to support the individualDeveloping a forum to share best practice and learning about dementia amongst support providers.Working with community-centric colleagues to improve their understanding of dementia and their awareness of support available. As the role involves travelling across Surrey to community locations that may not be easily accessible by public transport, you will need to be able to demonstrate a flexible and adaptable approach to travelling to those locations. In line with SCC policy, efforts will be made to reduce the travel required where possible. Flexible working will be supported through the use of mobile technology. Shortlisting Criteria To apply, alongside uploading your CV, you will be asked to answer the following questions: What interested you in the role of Communities and Prevention Project Officer?Describe your passion and interests in community-related work, and if possible, in the context of working in a strengths-based way and the benefits you've delivered to the community.What project management experience do you have, and how have you used specific project management tools or approaches in practice?As part of the role, you will be delivering training to improve understanding of dementia. How will your knowledge, training, and experience enable you to deliver training to unpaid carers and staff within voluntary organisations? Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment. The job advert closes at 23:59 on 12/05/2024 with interviews to follow. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit. Our Commitment Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where: The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their applicationThe candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.

Our client, an esteemed not-for-profit organisation in Central London, is currently seeking a professional and highly experienced Project Officer with a background in administration and project assistance. In this role, you will play a crucial part in executing essential administrative and team support activities, including handling of numerical and non-numerical data, minute taking, customer service, responding to inbox queries, report management and information collation. This is a temporary role for approx. 3 months with potential to extend. Duties and Responsibilities Take accurate, detailed meeting minutes on complicated subjectsBe the main point of contact for and respond to, process and data enquiries received from stakeholdersAssisting on project-management dutiesPrecise numerical and non-numerical data-handlinBuild relationships and offering customer serviced both externally and internallFinding and collating complex informatioVarious administrative tasksSetting up meetings and working groups with both internal and external staff Person Specification Proven experience in office and project administrationExperience handling dataGood working knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Word and ExcelExperience using and maintaining a database or equivalent to store and retrieve information (e.g. SPSS - ideal).

Are you a West Midlands based HR, Learning or OD Advisor/Manager looking for a new project focused interim assignment? Do you have Public Sector experience? Or experience of working in a large Unionised environment? If so, please get in touch regarding the following role: Day rates, inside of IR35 for up to 12 Months. Senior HR Projects: Previous experience writing or reviewing job descriptionsPrevious training or OD experience and OD knowledgeJob evaluation experience or knowledge preferredAble to lead workshops with managers, directors, employees and unions and complete an agreed job description/person specificationAble to lead workshops leading to the completion the Job Description QuestionnaireAble to update an Excel tracker, review management information, forecast workshop numbers Contribute to writing template documents, briefing documents and training materialsAble to manage the performance of their allocated HR Project Support Officer and Business Support OfficerAble to interrogate systems and liaise with people to resolve complex queriesFamiliar with project management methodologies and governance Please apply asap.