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Enabling Grants Project Officer x2

£24,496 - £26,845 a year | Temporary 31/03/2025

Reference:: 23-25053-H2
Job title:: Enabling Grants Project Officer x2
Directorate:: Economy and Community Development
Service:: Economic Development Programmes
Closing date:: 03/07/2023 10:00
Job type/Hours:: Temporary | 31/03/2025 | 37 Hour
Salary:: £24,496 - £26,845 a year
Pay Scale:: S1
Location(s):: Dolgellau

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Person Specification

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL
• Enthusiasm, energy, persistence and the will to solve problems.
• An eye for detail and accuracy.
• Honesty, self confidence, decisive and flexible.
• Ability to accept responsibilities and to communicate effectively
• Ability to work under pressure and as part of a team.
• Diplomatic personality
• Own a valid driving license with the use of a car

DESIRABLE
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QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT TRAINING
ESSENTIAL
• A degree or equivalent qualification in a subject relevant to the needs of the job

DESIRABLE
• Qualification in accounting

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
• Experience of developing, implementing and managing regeneration projects
• Experience of dealing with grant applications
• Experience of working to a tight schedule and under pressure
• Experience of preparing reports
• Experience of communicating with individuals and groups on a broad level

DESIRABLE
• Experience of targeting grants from various financial sources
• Background of working as part of a team or as an individual and to carry out unsupervised tasks.
• Experience of community or economic development work and processes.
• Ability to present information and hold discussions.
• Experience of collecting and analyzing statistics

SKILLS AND SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
ESSENTIAL
• Strong communication skills — oral and written in Welsh and English.
• Project management skills including financial management.
• Arithmetic skills.
• Ability to analyze information and statistics.
• Broad knowledge of the regeneration field including the economic, community and environmental aspects.
• Experience of attracting resources from financial sources

DESIRABLE
• Information about the area and Gwynedd Council's objectives.
• Understanding of the needs of community groups.
• Information about the guidelines of different financial funds.
• Understanding of Windows computer software packages

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL
Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level
Being able to hold a conversation easily on a number of different topics every day, and discuss cases related to the work area. Being able to follow a discussion in Welsh, in Clear Welsh, on familiar issues related to the job. Being able to contribute to the conversation and answer questions.

Reading and Comprehension - Intermediate Level
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work. Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (You may need help with vocabulary.)

Writing - Intermediate Level
Being able to write letters for a specific purpose, e-mail messages and short reports through the medium of Welsh and English using vocabulary and simple expressions that are familiar to the field of work. (They will need to be checked before being sent out)

Job Description

Purpose of the Post.
• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.

• Managing Projects that have been funded through Key Funds
• Implement and coordinate arrangements to ensure that the ‘Galluogi’ grant management arrangements are effective and appropriate

Responsibility for functions . e.g. staff, budgets, equipment
• IT Equipment

Main Duties
• Collaborate closely with the relevant Officers within the Economy and Community Department, Gwynedd Council in order to assist communities to develop effective grant applications.
• Promote opportunities to apply for Key Gwynedd grants through press releases, updating information on the Council's website and Gwynedd Council's social websites.
• Receive grant applications, initial assessment and administration
• Prepare reports to be presented during the grants assessment panel
• Monitor expenditure and outputs against the targets of the schemes supported, together with collecting and processing evidence that outputs have been reached, and reporting regularly to the Community Support Manager
• Develop and implement a customer care system
• Responsibility for self-development.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special Circumstances . e.g. the need to work unsociable hours, special working arrangements etc.
• Need to work unsocial hours in the evenings and at weekends as needed

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