Programme Officer - World Habitat Awards

Job Description – Programme Officer – World Habitat Awards

Job Title                      Programme Officer – World Habitat Awards

Responsible to           Programme Manager – World Habitat Awards

Prime Function:          Support the World Habitat Awards team and external partners to identify and seek to encourage the adoption of good, positive and promising housing practices and provide vital support to the team to enable it to work effectively. This is a hybrid role with flexibility for remote working and will include occasional international travel as required.

Starting salary                        £34,686

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Programme delivery

•           To support the co-ordination and delivery of World Habitat work including, delivering events, publications and communications outputs as well as monitoring outputs.

•           Provide support to the World Habitat Awards process (and related activities) by managing accurate records on a CRM system (Salesforce) and provide reports as required.

•           Undertake activities to support colleagues to evaluate World Habitat’s current and previous work and identify good practice to promote awareness and understanding of our impact.

•           Be the first point of contact for general enquiries regarding the World Habitat Awards, providing telephone and email support to World Habitat Awards applicants as required.

•           Receive and take an active role in the assessment and processing of World Habitat Awards applications.

•           Assist with collaboration activities and other transfer work.

•           To lead on specific projects as agreed within the World Habitat Awards team.

Communications and networking

•           Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support the delivery of World Habitat work.

•           Communicate content of a specialist or technical nature, to non-experts and experts alike, using high-level skills to tailor messages to specific audiences.

•           Support our Communications team by undertaking weekly monitoring of our social media activity and co-ordinating translations.

Other

•           Continually update own knowledge and understanding in relevant fields.

•           Be an active member of the World Habitat staff team, including contributing to the general intellectual capital and playing an active role in the organisation’s development.

•           Undertake travel within the UK and internationally as and when required by the organisation. This is likely to amount to around 5 days per year.

•           Undertake other reasonable duties in the context of this job description as required.

This job description sets out the level of responsibility and areas of duties of the post. Such duties may vary over time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed.  Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.