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Westway Trust, London (On-site)
£56,160 per year
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a community-based charity with an ambitious and exciting vision set in the heart of Portobello.
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£40,682 per year
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£28,300 per year
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£36,785 per year
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£40,284 per year
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Kinship, Remote
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£41,400 per year
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London, Greater London (On-site) 16.43 miles
£56,160 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

Westway Trust is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Manager - Community Engagement – to drive work to ensure we are strengthening and developing the Trust’s position within the North Kensington community.To ensure that we are doing as much as we can to engage with, support and involve the community in all that we do.To work with the communications team to ensure we are communicating the many opportunities we do and will offer for the community to engage with us.

You will need to have the right blend and balance of strategic, communication, innovation and people skills. You will have experience of supporting and enhancing the lives of people in the local community. You will be an energetic and enthusiastic individual with a commitment to the value of participative community engagement. You will be comfortable in connecting with the wider community, able to listen and gather the views of local people and feed these back into the direction, work and decisions of the Trust.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

  • To take responsibility for the development and delivery of the Trust’s community engagement activity. 
  • To take responsibility for the delivery of impact management in relation to the Trust’s Theory of Change (as outlined in our Horizon Plan.
  • To be responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships. 
  • To be responsible for the impact measurement of the Trust’s engagement and consultation activities. 
  • To build and support a diverse range of Community Forums and Networks and ensure they are linked to the development work of the Trust. 
  • To ensure other pathways are in place to ‘listen to’ community voices. 
  • To ensure other pathways are in place for the community to engage with the Trust in line with our Community Centring ethos. 
  • To play an active part in delivering a Trust-wide Stakeholder Engagement Plan, including with responsibility for Member Organisations. 
  • To work with colleagues inside the Trust and externally on the development and innovation of grant making, capacity building, health, social justice and anti-racism. 
  • To be part of the Trusts effort in driving innovation, including engaging with the balance between social and commercial returns. 
  • To engage with the Board of the African Caribbean Cultural Centre, in line with Trust policy. 
  • To engage with the Steering Group of Bay 20 (or the equivalent), in line with Trust policy. 
  • To line manage a team of staff. 
  • To attend Executive Team as requested, Committees as required and provide reports and papers for Committees, line manager and the Board as required. 

Knowledge and Experience:

Leadership responsibilities

  • You will be an active member of the Trust’s Team, contributing in particular to the development and delivery of the property aspects of the Trust’s strategy, business plans and land-use priorities.
  • You will attend the Board’s sub-committee and other meetings supporting effective Governance and management as required.

Essential

  • Significant and successful experience of operating as a senior charity manager.
  • A track record of working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders to develop successful partnerships and achieve joint success against shared objectives. 
  • Significant experience of community engagement and an ability to balance a range of competing or sometimes contradictory views to arrive at an appropriate compromise position. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to give compelling presentations to a range of audiences. 
  • The ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to developing priorities. 
  • The ability to be innovative and creative in order to arrive at practical solutions to sometimes complex issues. 
  • Experience of managing staff and supporting their development. 
  • Experience of managing resources and budgets. 
  • Strong interpersonal skills for both workplace and external representation contexts, operating with enthusiasm, flexibility, energy and commitment.
  • Resilience, empathy, enthusiasm and determination to achieve results. 
  • Demonstrable understanding of commitment to, anti-racism and promotion of equality of opportunities, diversity and inclusion. 

Ideally you will bring:

  • A strong understanding of building regulations and best practice, and industry standards.
  • An understanding of the local area.

Benefits of working with us:

  • Great location in the heart of Portobello, North Kensington
  • Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per year + statutory bank holidays
  • Sick pay scheme
  • Investor in People (IiP) employer
  • Free gym membership at health club one minute walk from the office
  • Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Season ticket / bicycle loan
  • Free eye test voucher

The application deadline is Sunday 1 June when applications will be reviewed and shortlisted for interview.  However, we reserve the right to close the application early.  An early application is strongly recommended.

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Westway Trust View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 101 - 500

We exist to work together with the local community to enable North Kensington to thrive.

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Posted on: 12 May 2025
Closing date: 01 June 2025 at 23:30
Tags: Engagement / Outreach, Grants

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