Role: Senior Community Engagement Officer

‍Salary: £31,270 p.a. FTE

Contract: 2 year fixed term contract from January 2025 until 31 December 2026

Hours: 40 hours per week (inclusive of 1 hour lunch) (1 FTE). Regular evening and weekend working will be required. The regular working pattern of this role will include a weekend day each week. For example, the work pattern might be Tuesday to Saturday or Sunday to Thursday.

Location: Hybrid. Crystal Palace Park, Ledrington Road London, SE19 2BB

Responsible for: This role is responsible for developing the programme of community engagement at Crystal Palace Park in line with the National Lottery Heritage Fund Activity Plan.

Line Managed By: Senior Community Programmes Manager

Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory holidays, increases by a day each year completed, up to 30 days. Employer Pension Contribution 5%. Employee Assistance Programme. Flexible working by agreement within the role requirements

About the role

The postholder will work with the Senior Community Programmes Manager to establish and deliver a new programme of activities, events and community engagement at the park. You will also work as part of the project team that includes a new Senior Volunteer Officer. 

The role is offered on a two year fixed term contract with Crystal Palace Park Trust. Any extension after 31 December 2026 is subject to funding. 

This role is funded by the NLHF as part of a partnership project between Crystal Palace Park Trust and the London Borough of Bromley. 

‍About Crystal Palace Park Trust

The role offers the opportunity to join a young and growing charity at an exciting point in its evolution, and to help lead on establishing Crystal Palace Park as an exemplar in urban park management, community-led regeneration and culture and heritage programming.  

This appointment comes at a pivotal moment: after 25 years of community campaigning, Crystal Palace Park Trust took over custodianship of this unique landscape, on 15 September 2023, via a 125 year lease from the London Borough of Bromley.

We are now working closely with the London Borough of Bromley and a wide variety of other park and community stakeholders to deliver our mission: to protect, manage and improve Crystal Palace Park as a green, historic, ecological, recreational, sporting, cultural and educational resource in the interests of park users and of the wider community.

The Trust’s team will soon consist of 14 staff members organised into four departments: CEO & Corporate Services; Events & Programming; Fundraising & Communications and Park Management and Commercial. 

You can read more about the park, the Trust and its work for the park’s community, its heritage, and ecology at:  www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org and in the Trust’s strategy, ‘Connections’.

How to apply

For more information on how to apply, please download the application pack here. Please submit the required documents to jobs@crystalpalaceparktrust.org with the subject: ‘Role: Senior Community Engagement Officer’.

Applications must be received by 10:00 on Monday 28 October 2024

First-round interviews will be held on 6 and 7 November 2024. All applicants must submit an Equal Opportunities Form

Crystal Palace Park Trust is an equal opportunities employer. We believe that our staff should represent the communities, organisations, and individuals that we work with and support. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or nationality.

We thank all applicants for their interest.