District Community Support and Development Officer (informally Pride In Place Area Lead)

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment / Acting Up (as appropriate) until 31 March 2027

The successful candidate is expected to start this role as soon as possible.

Grade D - £45,091 – £51,356

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

The Pride In Place (PIP) Programme is a 10-year community-led programme, investing up to £2million a year in nine Birmingham neighbourhoods to help build stronger communities, thriving places, and enable communities to take control.

An opportunity within the Neighbourhoods (City Operations) division has arisen to support PIP areas. Four Pride In Place Area Leads are needed to work with MPs, Independent Chairs and Neighbourhood Boards, manage funding at the start of the Programme, and assist community-led delivery and decision-making through the Neighbourhood Board and Pride In Place Plan.

What you'll do

Each PIP Area Lead will work with at least two PIP areas, becoming the Council’s key contact for each area, building positive working relationships with the Chair and Neighbourhood Board, ensuring the effective function of the latter (for example, through secretariat or promotional support), maintaining oversight of eligible financial spend and future forecasts, and supporting community engagement efforts as led by the Board. Over time it is expected that Neighbourhoods Boards will become entities in their own right; until then, the Council is the accountable body for PIP funding and PIP Area Leads are a key part of ensuring eligible and transparent spend.

You will be part of a wider cross-directorate PIP programme team, exploring opportunities of scale across other PIP areas with colleagues, developing learning on how PIP models could be applied elsewhere across the city, and being at the forefront of major, place-based regeneration and engagement efforts.

We are looking for candidates with:

Experience of engaging with local communities and stakeholders in decision making processes
Experience of liaising with local political structures and across multiple types of stakeholders
Experience in project management and balancing multiple strands of work
Experience of Asset Based Community Development or similar partnership development knowledge
Ability to monitor and evaluate programmes and/or activities
Ability to promote and develop governance arrangements at a local neighbourhood level
Ability to manage budgets and understand financial information
Ability to work on own initiative

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

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