Salary: £32,164
Hours: 36.5 hours per week (including occasional evening and weekend attendance)
Contract: Fixed term until the end of March 2025
This is not a Wiltshire Council vacancy therefore please contact Community First direct for further information.
A bit about us:
Community First has been supporting Wiltshire and Swindon communities for more than 53 years. Our team goes the extra mile to create brighter futures for those living and working in the county. Putting people first is at the heart of everything we do.
We are looking for an enthusiastic facilitator who can bring together professional stakeholders and communities to help plan for a better future through appropriate small-scale housing development.
You will be working in partnership with local communities and Local Authorities to achieve affordable rural housing across rural Wiltshire. You will engage with communities, housing organisations, Parish Councils, Local Authorities, landowners, developers, agents, planners, other partners and community leaders to bring forward sites and solutions to meet local need through the provision of affordable housing projects on rural sites.
Main Duties will include:
- Support, advise and steer communities, and town and parish councillors from their initial interest in providing affordable housing, through scheme inception and pre-development phases to completion.
- Assist communities identify the nature and extent of affordable local housing need in their community, including where appropriate through a Housing Needs Survey.
- Support rural communities to choose a delivery option that best suits their capacity and in the knowledge of the availability of local technical support.
- Assist communities identify a deliverable site for development of affordable housing and/or secure affordable housing as part of market led schemes.
- Work with communities to build and maintain support for the scheme, ensuring the community is meaningfully engaged throughout the pre-development process, including during scheme design.
- Building collaborative partnerships with key partners to provide a clear pathway to a successful planning application and delivery. Partners may include, but are not limited to, local communities, parish councils, housing association staff, officers from the Local Housing Authority and the Local Planning authority and local developers.
Due to the nature of the work, you will be required to undertake a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
Find out more and apply:
If you would like to find out more about this position, please contact Harry Tipple, Head of Community and Business Development on: 01380 732 824 or htipple@communityfirst.org.uk
Closing date: Midday on 12th of April 2024
Interview dates: 19th of April 2024
The Job Description, Person Specification and an application form for this role can be found on our website at https://www.communityfirst.org.uk/vacancies. Please note we are unable to accept CVs.
Please send completed application forms to Nicky Theobald, Premises and Business Support Manager at ntheobald@communityfirst.org.uk
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