BITMO Community Development Co-ordinator

Contract Type:
Permanent Salary:
£30,151 - £32,020 Hours:
37 hours a week Closing Date:
24/04/2023 10:00 am

Please note that this post is only available to existing employees of BITMO and Leeds City Council.

This is a job where you will really be able to make a difference.

Belle Isle is a lively South Leeds community, where the tenants manage their own council housing through a tenant management organisation. They have a budget of over £5 million a year and as well as repairing and improving homes and running a caretaking service they are able to provide extras like:

a £70,000 a year community fund
a community centre where volunteers provide free meals and staff provide advice and computer support
families come in for free food and activities during school holidays
the recently opened community garden and community orchard.

You will be part of a dynamic community development team that includes a member whose full-time job is visiting tenants at home, a Community Development Officer who specialises in helping people upgrade their digital skills and a Community Builder who is based in the community, having conversations and linking people together.

In this job you will be accountable to your manager and the Board – and indirectly to the volunteers and the wider Belle Isle community – but will have much more freedom to bring about change than in most local authority roles and more access to funds.

You will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the BITMO’s GATE community centre and of recruiting and supporting our volunteers as well as developing our employment support offer and supporting community control of the community garden and community orchard.

Please download and read the job description and person specification below.

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Please apply using the online application form below by 10am on Monday 24 April. Interviews will be held on Thursday 27 April. For an informal discussion about the job, please call BITMO’s Community Development Manager Peter Sutton on 07891 274237. Please note that he will not be in available from 7-16 April.

This post is only open to people who already work for BITMO or Leeds City Council *

I work for BITMO
I work for Leeds City Council (LCC)
I don’t work for BITMO or LCC and so understand that I cannot apply

Please give examples of when you have been involved in enabling wider community involvement in an EXISTING service. This could be in anything from a community centre to estate redevelopment to involving clients in service development. Please include names of organisations involved and approximate dates. *

Please give examples of when you have been involved in supporting the development of NEW local projects and how you have helped increase community involvement in them. Please include names of organisations involved. and approximate dates *

Please give examples of when you have worked with volunteers (or similar such as tenant associations or board members) and any involvement you have had in recruiting and managing volunteers. If you have not had this experience directly, please tell us about any transferable skills you might have – for example in line managing staff, mentoring or teaching. Please include names of organisations involved and approximate dates. *

Please give examples of when you have supported people into new jobs, education or training. This could be at an individual level or involvement in developing a programme for employment support. Please give names of organisations involved and approximate dates. *

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Please list the jobs you have had in the last ten years *

Give name of employer, position held, dates worked and very brief description of duties.

Please list the training and education courses you have attended in the last ten years and any qualifications you have obtained. *

We need a reference from your current employer, which must be Leeds City Council or BITMO. *

Please give the name of the company (if applicable), name of the person, phone number and email address.

Please give a second referee. This can be from a previous employer or a character reference. *

Please give the name, phone number and email address and tell us your connection with this person.

Can we contact your referees during the recruitment process? *

Interviews will be held on Thursday 27 April *

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I am not available on 27 April

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