Activation Officer - Active Travel Moving More

Role Overview:

An exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to join Oldham Council’s Public Health, Moving More team to support our residents and our communities to be more active in their everyday lives.

Working in a collaborative way with our residents and partners, you will be responsible for the project management of a programme of engagement and activation which increases physical activity, reduces car journeys, and improves the health and wellbeing of Oldham residents.

This diverse role will quickly develop your knowledge and understanding of the wider Public Health and Active Travel work areas and ensure you make connections and relationships across Oldham and the wider system.

You will be required to promote health, wellbeing and physical activity and increase awareness of the benefits of being more active. You will facilitate community engagement and upskilling initiatives to empower community leaders and foster social networks that support residents to actively use infrastructure and assets available to them.

Come and join the Team as we support Oldham to #MoveMoreFeelBetter.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing high-profile activation and behaviour change programmes aimed at: integrating physical activity into our communities’ daily lives, reducing car journeys, improving health, and contributing to a greener, less congested Oldham.
• Project management of the above programmes, working closely with Public Health, to ensure engagement and behaviour change.
• Promoting health, wellbeing, and physical activity, and increasing awareness of the benefits of being more active.
• Collaborating with communities and the voluntary sector to maximise the use of active travel infrastructure, as well as green spaces, recreational areas and other facilities. Identifying barriers to usage and working together to overcome these.
• Facilitating community engagement and upskilling initiatives to empower community leaders and fostering social networks that support residents to actively use the infrastructure available to them.

Key Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

• A degree or equivalent qualification/s, or substantial project management experience in a related field, coupled with a commitment to continuous professional development
• Extensive experience in community-based activation and engagement work
• Experience of acting as a positive change agent, proactively working in partnership with others to achieve organisational priorities
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain constructive working relationships with internal / external leaders, and to persuade and influence others to bring about behavioural change and achieve desired outcomes / results as appropriate
• Excellent organisational skills to complete tasks to potentially conflicting deadlines, re-prioritising own work as appropriate
• An understanding of Active Travel, sustainability, public transport, public health, and their intersection with community dynamics and the expectations of communities

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS (and a Certificate of Good Conduct where you have lived abroad for 12 months or more in the last 10 years).

If you would like support with this application, an interview or interested in looking at any courses that could help with this position please get in touch with Get Oldham Working - Get Oldham Working registration form - Oldham Council

NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).

Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

About Us:

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Behaviours, which outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses. Internally we have translated these into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view these Behaviours, along with staff benefits here: Working for Oldham

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy.

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