This is a full-time, permanent post.
The postholder will be responsible to the appropriate senior officer for creating and maintaining strategic connections within the City and Neighbourhood Services Department and with external partners to enable effective action to address relevant corporate and community planning priorities in the city related to the work of the Community Support and Neighbourhood Integration portfolio including health inequalities, community support and environmental education.
This will include the development and management of a portfolio of work for delivering thematic and area based programmes to improve delivery of services and projects that will address priorities identified in the Community Support and Neighbourhood Integration portfolio, the corporate plan and the city’s community plan, the Belfast Agenda.
It will also involve enabling and, where appropriate, coordinating the delivery of this work across Belfast City Council (BCC), and other partner organisations in the statutory, community and voluntary sectors, via the Community Planning Partnership and other relevant partnerships.
Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with appropriate partners and stakeholders in order to create and enhance the profile and reputation of BCC and meet priority objectives as set out in corporate and committee plans.
As Protestants are currently known to be under-represented in this job group, in Belfast City Council, applications from this group would be particularly welcome.
And as young people (people under the age of 35), people with a disability and people from minority ethnic communities are currently under-represented in Belfast City Council, applications from these groups would be particularly welcome.
As part of our commitment to equality of opportunity, we offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post. Further information can be found in the application pack.
Belfast City Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applications for employment are considered strictly on the basis of merit.