Job title: Recycling Engagement Officer
Salary: Circa £25,129 per annum
Hours: Full Time - 37 hours per week
Contract: 12 month fixed term contract (an extension may be available subject to funding confirmation)
Location: Covering Northumberland
About the Employer
Our client aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver the charity’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential. As an organisation, they are proud of the effective role that their Community Project Managers play in delivering significant social, environmental and health outcomes with communities across the North East region.
About the role
Working in this charity’s ’Land and Communities’ Team, and in close partnership with Northumberland County Council and Suez Recycling and Recovery, this post will engage with households and partners across Northumberland to reduce contamination in the recycling waste stream and change recycling behaviours. You will work with the County Council’s Refuse Collection Teams and Waste Managers to deliver a programme of targeted doorstep engagement, monitoring and community engagement activity aimed at reducing contamination and increasing recycling. As a Recycling Engagement Officer you will exercise your delegated powers to address residential waste offences.
A bit about you
The postholder will be hardworking, flexible and passionate about making a difference. You will be a strong and persuasive communicator, able to understand legislation and council policies and to explain these in simple terms to residents through correspondence and conversation. You will be unafraid of getting your hands dirty and comfortable with regularly working outdoors.
Closing date: Midnight on Tuesday 3rd December 2024
Please note: The right is reserved to close this vacancy early if receive sufficient applications for the role are received. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Interested?
To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.
Make yourself at home:
Our client wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your differences and together everyone will make the charity a special and great place to work.
As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
This employer ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
No agencies please.