Thanet Know Your Neighbourhood Engagement Officer

Role Responsibility

Do you want to make a real meaningful positive difference to peoples lives?Are you proactive, with the ability to work on your own and with colleagues? Can you network with customers and community groups to identify opportunities to develop an exciting new project combatting lonliness through library services in Thanet?

We are looking for someone to work across our Thanet District Libraries and their communities to define, develop, deliver and evaluate the Thanet Know your Neighbourhood project. This is a National programme funded by the Department for Culture Media & Sport in partnership with Arts Council and Libraries Connected.

Thanet has been identified as having  high levels of loneliness and isolation. A focus of the Thanet Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) project will be to understand and identify people in Thanet who are vulnerable to loneliness and how we can find ways for them to benefit either through volunteering, existing activities or design and pilot new ones.

You will be part of a local team who work to put the customer at the heart of everything we do and will take a lead role to motivate staff to deliver a quality service and develop skills.      

This is a fabulous opportunity to shape a project that can make a real difference locally while also contributing to a national initiative and learning.

If you are interested to be part of a team who are committed to developing first class services to meet changing needs, we will welcome an application from you. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job description/person specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will be held on Friday 12 January 2024

Start date TBC

Contact Details

For more information on this role please contact:

Sarah Hammond on 03000 414426 - 07976271492

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.