Community Engagement Manager

Full job description

Role Summary:

AFC Fylde Community Foundation is recruiting a Community Engagement Manager to join its successful and respected team. As a key member of the Senior Management Team, the postholder will provide inspirational leadership across the Foundation’s community engagement portfolio, ensuring the effective oversight, management, and development of a range of impactful programmes that address local needs and create positive social change.

The Community Engagement Manager will lead the delivery and growth of the Foundation’s core community projects, including Armed Forces Support, Loneliness Prevention, Health and Wellbeing interventions, and Targeted Youth provision. Working closely with staff, partners, funders, and stakeholders, the postholder will ensure that programmes are delivered to the highest standards, achieve agreed outcomes, and make a meaningful difference to the communities they serve.

The successful candidate will possess a strong understanding of community engagement, stakeholder management, partnership development, and business growth. They will be responsible for building and maintaining effective relationships with local authorities, healthcare providers, education settings, community organisations, funders, and strategic partners to maximise the Foundation’s reach, impact, and sustainability.

In addition to leading and developing a team of project staff, the postholder will champion a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, displaying behaviours that align with the Foundation’s values and mission.

Guidance and Authority:

The Community Engagement Manager will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer and will have a number of direct reports.

Main Duties:

• Be accountable for all projects and activities linked to Community Engagement within the Foundation strategy.
• Inspirationally lead and manage the performance of the Community Engagement team to reach identified goals. This will include setting performance targets, monitoring achievements and effectively tackling any poor performance.
• Become an important member of the Senior Management Team, adding experience, influence and value.
• Work with the Chief Executive Officer to identify, apply for and report on relevant grant applications and tendering opportunities.
• Manage all aspects of project delivery, including but not limited to finances, staff performance, outcomes and stakeholder engagement.
• Create and develop a range of partnerships and commercial opportunities, including the planning of events and fundraisers.
• Collect and collate the required monitoring and evaluation information, business intelligence and insights on current and future projects.
• Manage a range of Foundation policies, including regular reviews and updates.
• Be a flexible member of the Foundation team and when requested assist in other duties as may be reasonably required to, including evenings and weekends.

Health and Safety:

• Fully endorse, demonstrate, and carry out the Foundation’s health and safety policy.
• Ensure all services and activities are correctly monitored with the appropriate risk assessments, safeguarding measures and health and safety procedures put in place.
• Comply with all group policies and statutory regulations relating to health and safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire and COSHH. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace and assist if required with the amending of risk assessments periodically.
• Identify and report maintenance requirements or hazards within the workplace and encourage any workforce to do the same to avoid injury.

Safeguarding:

• The Foundation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to endorse this commitment.
• The employee must act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are in their care or attending the group’s premises. The employee must report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the Designated Safeguarding Lead and Chief Executive Officer.

General:

• Cooperate fully with colleagues and be flexible when assisting them in response to the business needs of the Foundation.
• Ensure a positive commitment towards equality and diversity by treating others fairly and not committing any form of direct or indirect discrimination, victimisation, or harassment of any description and to promote positive working relations amongst employees and customers.
• This job description is not intended to be exhaustive; the duties and responsibilities may therefore vary over time according to the changing needs of the group.

Person Specification

All are deemed essential unless otherwise stated.

Qualifications

• Full driving license and the use of vehicle
• Health and safety (desirable)
• Safeguarding (desirable)
• Leadership and Management (desirable)

Knowledge

• Roles and responsibilities of a professional sports foundation / football club community organisation
• How organisations contribute to the value of local communities
• How social and political environments affect community focussed organisations
• Monitoring and evaluation systems, including demonstrable experience of financial reconciliation
• What is required when planning events and fundraisers
• Capability Code of Practice (desirable)
• Good knowledge of the local community and associated social issues (desirable)

Experience

• Leading projects, from inception to completion, including managing budgets
• Performance management and mentoring
• Stakeholder management and partnerships
• Business development
• Governance, compliance and regulation
• Senior leadership role within the community/sport/health and wellbeing sector (desirable)
• Bid writing and project management (desirable)
• Relevant qualification or experience related to supporting hard-to-reach groups (desirable)

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communicator, with the ability to work effectively with people across different organisations and levels
• Outstanding planning and organisational skills
• Commitment to fairness, diversity and equality
• Competent and confident networker
• Be supportive, fair and honest with colleagues
• Must be friendly, approachable, confident and articulate
• Ability to obtain a clean enhanced DBS qualification

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £28,500.00-£33,999.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person