Social Investment Officer
Greater Manchester - Agile
Hours of Work: 35 per week
Salary: £33,703 - £35,849
Closing date: 23rd August 2024
Interviews: TBC
At MSV Housing we’re committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes, and our Social Investment Officers are key to making this happen.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to join our established team. Reporting to our Social Investment Team Leader, our Social Investment Officer empowers volunteers and groups to develop community initiatives and supports the management of local customer led hubs, creating neighbourhood touch points within MSV communities collaborating with local partners.
What do our Social Investment Officers do;
- Develop strong and successful relationships with partners at a local and national level.
- Develop and support opportunities for employment, work experience, training and volunteering through referrals into the social investment team.
- Deliver high quality community-based initiatives in collaboration with teams, partners, and the local community and empower community volunteers to create sustainable, outcome driven projects within their own neighbourhoods.
- Ensure that social value metrics are captured and reported for all project activity, ensuring value for money can be demonstrated as can positive outcomes.
- Manage and support community hubs operating within MSV communities and support groups to secure external funding for projects and initiatives.
- Ensure Customer Voice is at the heart of all projects and initiatives.
What we are looking for;
- Educated to Degree level or comparable professional qualification (desirable).
- Experience of working in a community focussed environment or setting.
- Experience of delivering high quality initiatives and projects
- Experience of bid writing and securing external grants
- Strong interpersonal skills with a friendly, collaborative and professional manner.
We offer a range of great benefits including:
- Essential car user allowance to support you with car running costs
- Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided
- 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday a buy scheme.
- Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions
- Company funded access to a health cash plan, where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more.
- Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay
- Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives
- Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
- Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career
- Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ , disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause.
MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.
For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role. https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/
If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Natalie Samuels, Social Investment Team Leader on 07786960241 or Stephanie Williams, Head of Customer Voice and Influence on 07739899503.
Interview dates are to be confirmed, interviews will be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.
We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.