Insight and VCS Engagement Officer

Shropshire Council,

Shropshire Council’s Feedback and Insight Team are seeking to recruit an Insight and VCS Engagement Officer. The focus of the role is working to coordinate and support Shropshire’s Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly. The post holder will enable cross-sector partnership working, support the work of the VCS Assembly Board, organise meetings and events, and deliver partnership projects and voluntary sector research.

We are looking for someone who has experience of working in partnerships and/or with the voluntary sector, delivering partnership projects and gathering feedback. Applications are welcomed from those with well-developed organisational and project management skills. The post holder will lead on weekly communications designed for the voluntary sector and manage the VCS Assembly website among other duties.

The role will require excellent written communication skills alongside good IT skills (although training will be provided). The post holder will be expected to act as a specialist for Shropshire Council, providing engagement advice to a wide range of internal services and external partners.

This role will take a lead coordinating Shropshire Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly. The postholder supports the VCS Assembly Board and wider membership. To fulfil this role the post holder will need to work with front line services, providers and partners, advising and supporting them to carry out a wide range of engagement activity from surveys to focus groups, to engagement with whole communities to seek their views.

Service providers and partners may include managers of Council provided services, external partners and provider managers and staff.

Through the role, the post holder may also work with elected members, in particular providing support for the Portfolio Holder with responsibility for communities.

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