Town Centre Officer

£36,124 - £39,513, 37 hours per week

Permanent Contract

 This post provides a great opportunity to join the Economic Development team within Malvern Hills District Council. 

 We are looking for someone who will make a real difference to our town centres and will help us to implement our Town Centre plans and town centre initiatives. These initiatives are key in supporting our local businesses and this role will be working to encourage people to visit and spend their money locally to help the town centres and traders survive and ultimately thrive.

As the principal town centre contact for the Council you will be at the forefront of developing and supporting the towns within the district and you will be working with businesses and key stakeholders from Great Malvern, Barnards Green, Malvern Link inc. Link Top, Tenbury Wells and Upton upon Severn.

About you 

The successful candidate will:

• Have at least 2 years principal local government or equivalent experience in a relevant function e.g. Town centre management, economic development, etc
• Proven experience of relevant partnership working and delivering joint projects.
• Demonstrable leadership skills and experience of managing relationships with stakeholders with diverse and potentially conflicting interests.
• Track record of contributing strategically to organisations’ performance.
• Involvement with officers of other departments 
• Involvement with Elected Members at a local level.
• Organising or running public events 
• Ability to travel throughout the district
• Ability to develop and motivate a diverse group of stakeholders and a diverse range of projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, members, staff and customers both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative.
• Proven ability to maintain/operate budgetary control.
• Understand and sensitivity to community leadership issues and willingness to participate and lead on partnership/community focused initiatives on behalf of Council. 
• Available to attend evening and weekend meetings and events such as Traders, Town Councils, key stakeholders and other meetings relevant to the post 
• Innovative and pro-active approach to recognising and solving problems.

What we can offer 

Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find.  So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:

• Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
• Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
• Committed training programme and development opportunities
• Discounted Gym and swim membership
• Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.

We are an employer that values face to face communication, collaboration and connection, therefore all our roles have an office-based requirement with some agile working as part of the role. 

To discuss the post or for further information, please call Simon Smith on 01684 862199

Closing date: Sunday 8 December 2024

Interview date: Wednesday 18 December 2024

 Please note if we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.

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