Development Officer - Workforce

Together Active is on the lookout for a passionate and proactive Workforce Officer to join our Community Development team. This vital role is designed to increase capacity, enhance capabilities and equip clubs and community organisations to enable them to be equitable and resilient, and it will develop pathways that change the face of our local workforce.

What You'll Do:

• Build Key Partnerships: Build a network of organisations that talks to each other to share best practice and real experiences.
• Ensure Collaborative Working: Work closely with VCSE/third sector partners to seek opportunities to work alongside each other and reduce duplication.
• Lead on Together Active's workforce plan: develop and refine the organisation's workforce plan including extending and developing our volunteer workforce.

Who You Are:

• A community-focused individual with a flair for developing skills and pathways within organisations to address their workforce needs. 
• An advocate for enabling organisations to become sustainable and adaptable. 
• A keen collaborator who relishes creating key partnerships allowing the sharing of best practice and experiences. 

We Value Diversity:
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you do not meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply if you're passionate about making a difference and believe you could bring something unique to the role. We value fresh perspectives and what you can bring to our team and community.

How We Value you 

At Together Active we know that our people are our most valuable asset. We have recently launched our People Plan that sets out how we put the welfare and wellbeing of our staff at the heart of the organisation. In addition to fair salaries with clear opportunities for pay progression, we offer the following benefits:

·        Generous annual leave allowance: 27.5 days upon commencement of
         employment plus bank holidays. This rises by an additional 1 day of leave per
         year after 2 years of continuous employment, up to an additional 5 days leave
         in total. (Pro rata for part time staff).

·        Three concessionary days leave over Christmas and New Year (pro rata for part
         time staff).

·        Death in service scheme up to the value of three times actual salary.

·        Wellbeing Grant - £50 voucher per year to spend on health and wellbeing.

·        Volunteer day to spend either as a team or individual helping out with an
         organisation or cause you select.

·        Up to 8% employer contribution to pension scheme.

·        Reimbursement of the cost of a standard eye test as a user of visual display
         equipment.

·        Access to Cycle scheme

·        Annual CPD courses offered by Staffordshire University

·        Online skills training platform - for employees to use to broaden their
         professional and personal development across a range of online courses.

·        We are currently developing a scheme with staff to ongoing costs related to
         staying well/being active.

·        Access to counselling service.

We are committed to working flexibly and we mean it. Most people in our team are hybrid workers and we tend to congregate in the office approximately twice per week. We are focused on outcomes and the impact that we make, not counting the minutes you’re sat at your desk. We believe this role needs to be undertaken on a part time basis, but we are genuinely open to discussing working options with candidates including hours. 

Our office is based at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent which is a short walk from Stoke-on-Trent train station. There are electric charging points on campus for electric vehicles and parking permits can be purchased to minimise costs.

We may close this advert earlier should we have sufficient quality of applications and would encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.