We are looking a dynamic project officer to join our new learning team and deliver an innovative community engagement project at West Ham Park and Wanstead Flats. The project officer will lead our Wild East project, which connects London’s families to nature using bespoke interpretation tricycles staffed by teams of community volunteers
As a Learning Project Officer, you will be delivering projects which aim to increase people’s connections to their local green spaces, resulting in better understanding, confidence, involvement, wellbeing and connection in the local community. You should have a strong track record of delivering and managing community engagement and learning projects which create a lasting impact.
We are looking for an individual with experience in community engagement, family learning, learning activity development, volunteer engagement, and working with deprived communities.
- Guerrilla Interpretation Project (based at West Ham Park and Epping Forest):.
- Green Spaces Friendly Schools Project (based at West Ham Park): takes a full school approach with a smaller number of London’s inner city schools. The project aims to embed outdoor learning in a school’s ethos and curriculum, and create a sense of place with their local green space, through assemblies, school sessions, teacher training and senior leadership support.
- Green Space Play Project (based at Hampstead Heath & Queen’s Park): aims to address barriers to connection with nature by targeting families with under-5s through natural play activities.
- Green Talent (based primarily at Hampstead Heath & Bunhill Fields): provides opportunities for long term unemployed young people to explore careers in the environmental and green spaces sector.
As a Learning Project Officer, you will be responsible for the delivery of targets associated with the project, leading and motivating project volunteers, developing project content, maintaining relationships with high profile partners and working collaboratively with the community. You will also work alongside the Head of Learning on department-wide projects such as new ways of evaluating the impact of our learning sessions. These are exciting roles with scope to develop and innovate.
If you are passionate about connecting communities to their local green spaces and you want to make an impact, we look forward to receiving your application.
Any additional enquiries contact Abigail.tinkler@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Closing Date for this post is at Midday, Monday 20 November 2017.
Interviews will be held on 30 November 2017.
To apply, please visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jobs
Please note that CV’s will not be accepted
Please contact 020 7332 3978 (24-hour Answer phone) quoting reference number OS379 if you experience any problems. A minicom service for the hearing impaired available on 020 7332 3732.
The City of London is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes application from all sections of the community
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