Community Transport Development Officer

Voluntary Centre Services (Urban Challenge Ltd); England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused organization in the UK is seeking an individual to promote and develop the Community Transport Development project across Lincolnshire. The role involves building partnerships, raising awareness of transport issues, and supporting community transport schemes. The ideal candidate should have experience working with community groups, strong communication skills, and a commitment to enhancing accessibility for disadvantaged communities.

Qualifications

• Experience in community development or related fields.
• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement and partnership development.
• Ability to gather and analyze data to inform policy.

Responsibilities

• Promote community transport in Lincolnshire.
• Support the development of community transport schemes.
• Build partnerships with external agencies.

Skills

Experience with community groups or charities

Working with public sector bodies

Strong IT and digital skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Understanding of transport-related issues

Tools

MS Office

Digital communication tools

Job description

You will be responsible for promoting and developing the Community Transport Development project funded by UKSPF across the South and East Coast of Lincolnshire. You will be working closely with our funding partners the South and East Councils partnership (SELCP) to develop and nurture a range of partnerships that can support the future sustainability of community transport groups across Lincolnshire.

We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate the skills, enthusiasm and passion needed to fulfil the job requirements and enhance the support already provided by the existing community development team.

Specific Duties and responsibilities

• Drive focused outreach and development work to raise awareness of community transport, and increase the provision of social journeys throughout the South and East Coastof Lincolnshire.
• Enable stakeholders in Lincolnshire understand transport related social exclusion in Lincolnshire finding solutions with partners to address this
• Work with community transport schemes across the South and East Coast of Lincolnshire and to support their development and sustainability.
• Change the perception of community transport by evidencing CT is a key partner in the transport network and the role it plays in health and wellbeing.
• Lead the Lincolnshire community transport consortium.
• Support the collection of data and insight in the funded area.

Generic Duties

• Build and maintain effective relationships with external delivery partners, contractors, advisors and funders.
• Representing, advocating for and promoting the organisations to external agencies.
• Working within the organisations policies, procedure and quality standards.
• Undertake relevant training.
• Support management with undertaking risk assessments as relevant.

Other general duties appropriate to the level of responsibility of the post.

Essential

• Experience of working in, or with, community groups or charities to strengthen their services and performance.
• Working with public sector bodies and supporting cross-sector collaboration.
• Experience of different areas of organisational development activity such as governance, strategy development, funding / fundraising, volunteer management, stakeholder engagement, and/or partnership development.
• Gathering data / information from stakeholders and using this to contribute to the development of policy or services including Data and trend analysis and management information skills.
• Strong IT and digital skills – including MS Office and digital communication tools
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the issues affecting people and communities that are disadvantaged by a lack of accessible and inclusive transport
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship management and communication skills.
• A demonstrable commitment to LCVS’s values
• A strong commitment to, and understanding of the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Positive attitude to your own personal accountability for achieving agreed targets and outcomes
• A natural curiosity about ideas and demonstrating originality and resourcefulness in your approach

Desirable

• Working in or with the community transport sector and/or issues related to transport policy / services.