We are working with an esteemed Housing Association based in Derbyshire, who is currently recruiting for a Communities Assistant to join their passionate and pro-active team on a permanent basis.

This will be a full-time position with hybrid working and a salary of £24,378 per annum.

The ideal candidate will have experience working in a customer focused environment in a social housing setting, and also have access to their own vehicle.

Duties will include (but are not limited to):

• Providing an effective, efficient, and coordinated administrative support to the Community Engagement Project Delivery team and the Communities team

• Completing and updating action plans for community initiatives, events, and partnership projects; agreeing milestones with other employees and ensuring these are followed up, updated and recorded

• Supporting the Housing Officers by providing administrative support for estate walkabouts, updates, actions completed and reports for management and feedback to customers via the website, social media updates and newsletters; coordinating works required liaising with other services in the organisation

• Dealing with correspondence for the team, providing a triage service where necessary and logging customer demands for Housing Officers as appropriate

• Supporting the teams with subject data access requests received from customers and updating the GDPR team as and when necessary/requested

• Assisting with collating partnership networks, providing teams with updated information on local community projects / funding opportunities

• Recording and monitoring social value measures using the HACT model, providing regular updates to the Manager as requested

Experience required:

• Working in a customer focused environment

• Administrative duties

Skills, knowledge and expertise required:

• Good standard of general education

• Experience of working in a customer focused environment

• Computer literate with experience of MS Office

• Ability to record information accurately and in a timely fashion

• Ability to work independently and on own initiative

• Ability to methodically apply policies & procedures

Rewards and Benefits:

• Defined contribution pension scheme

• Online and high street discounts

• Free parking

• Medical cash plan

• A 24/7 employee assistance programme offering free and confidential counselling, legal and financial support and practical advice

• Flexible working for most roles

• Career break options

• Generous annual leave with the option to buy or sell more

• Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

• A range of training and development opportunities

Working hours:

• 37 hours per week

• Monday – Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm

Please note that you require recent experience to apply for this role.

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

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