We Are St Helens Borough Council.
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Community Engagement & Partnerships Lead in the Policy & Transformation Department.
St Helens Council is an ambitious council with major regeneration programmes and transformation plans that will improve the lives of residents and firmly place the organisation at the forefront of strategic change and innovation.
Delivering change on a large scale requires significant support and investment from communities, ensuring that major plans and strategies are aligned and connected to the needs, wishes and opinions of residents.
Stakeholder engagement and empowerment is vital so that residents feel able to influence and shape future services and plans.
The Community Engagement and Partnerships Lead will build and strengthen effective relationships with residents, taking advantage of opportunities and celebrating good practice. The role will involve building coherent and consistent engagement frameworks, identifying and mapping stakeholders and networks and working in partnership across a range of sectors to understand and access cultures, views and needs and translating this into meaningful insight and intelligence.
We are looking for the strong communicator, someone with flexible and adaptable people skills able to work with diverse groups of people ensuring that engagement is meaningful and empowering.
In this role you will utilise valuable community and business infrastructure to enhance engagement outcomes and strengthen partnership working. You will have the ability to secure support and resource from a range of different stakeholders, building strong and robust relationships across the business, voluntary and community network. You will be able to manage resources well, apply creative thinking and working collaboratively internally and externally to secure success in engagement.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by contacting Hannah Myers, Assistant Director Policy Change and Reform hannahmyers@sthelens.gov.uk
Thank you for your interest in working for us. If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Borough Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
