Community Development Officer

Contract Type:
Permanent Salary:
£12,824 - £13,479 (£32,061 - £33,699 FTE) Hours:
part time, 14.8 hours per week Job Ref:
CDO Closing Date:
27/11/2025 12:00 pm

Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation

Permanent Contract, part-time, job share 14.8 hours per week (ideally 2 x full days Thursdays & Fridays, but can be flexible)

C3 £12,824 – £13,479 (£32,061 – £33,699 FTE)

Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation is run by its own tenants and based in the heart of our community in Belle Isle, South Leeds. Working closely with Leeds City Council, we are responsible for managing their housing and estate services in the Belle Isle neighbourhood, made up of about 1800 council homes.

We have got a mission – to build a safer, stronger and greener Belle Isle, and the Community Development Team play a big part in it.

The Community Development Team is here to work with the Board and volunteers to run the BITMO’s GATE community centre, which provides collective support to the community. This ranges from free meals to free school uniforms and winter coats to school holiday playschemes. The team provides individual and group support to the Belle Isle community – for example our IT support includes:

· helping someone with an online application

· showing them how to do their own housing bidding and then help others

· group classes where everyone learns together.

We are not just based in the community centre, we make connections with the other community centres and groups active in Belle Isle and go door-to-door consulting residents about ways to improve their environment and to build tenant control.

We are looking for a part-time Community Development Officer to work in a job-share arrangement for 2 full days per week (7.4 hours per day), ideally Thursdays and Fridays, but we can be flexible on the days agreed. Please see the job description below

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We offer:

Continuous service when transferring to or from other Local Authorities.
Annual salary increments through the scale.
Contributory Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme & opt in cashback health plan.
Annual holiday of 26 days + bank holidays, increasing by 1 day per year of completed service up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
Office location in South Leeds easily accessible by major transport routes & free onsite parking.

Applications must be made by completing and submitting the online application below by 12 noon on Thursday 27^th November. Interviews will be held on 1^st December.

Please list THREE good things that you know about Belle Isle *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

What experience do you have which makes you the right candidate for this role? *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

Please tell us about your experience of using Microsoft packages such as Word and Excel, as well as email and social media in a work or voluntary capacity *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

Please give one or more example of when you supported someone who had a number of problems. *

How did you support them and what positive outcomes were there or what did you learn? This could be through a job or outside work. Please answer in no more than 200 words

Please tell us about a time that you helped a person or a group of people to learn a new skill. *

This could be through a job or outside work. Please answer in no more than 200 words

Please tell us a time when you have helped find out other people’s views. *

This could be through a job or outside work. For example – have you ever discussed any plans for the community where you live, changes at a school or plans for parking restrictions with other people? Please answer in no more than 200 words

Give us one idea of a new project that you could work with community members to develop in Belle Isle *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

Are you available to work some evenings and weekends? *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

If your application is successful, are you available on 1st December to attend an interview ? If not, please tell us when you would be available around that date. *

Please answer in no more than 200 words

Name *

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Address and postcode *

Phone *

Email *

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. *

Are you related to, or a close friend of any BITMO employee or Board Member? *

No, I am not
Yes, I am

If you are related to, or a close friend of a BITMO employee or Board Member, please give details below. *

We need a reference from your current or most recent employer *

Please give the name of the company, name of the person, job title and email address.

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

Please give the name of the company (if applicable), their name, job title (if applicable), email address and tell us your connection with this person.

Can we contact your referees during the recruitment process? *

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