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Community Development Worker
HEY Smile Foundation
Full time
25th April 2025
Description
HEY Smile Foundation works in partnership with a range of stakeholders to create a positive and sustainable change within communities. This role will work with and enhance the voice of the voluntary sector by connecting relationships and supporting groups with their development needs. This could include (but not limited to); improving governance, enabling fundraising best practices, inspiring and developing volunteer opportunities. As part of the Community Development Team, you will be working with multiple voluntary groups and connecting solutions, while developing wider understanding and learning that can be shared to create a resilient voluntary sector.
As a member of the Community Development Team, you will share skills and experiences that can challenge and support change. As an organiser and enabler within communities, you will listen and empower others to be part of the change through generous leadership.
Working across East Yorkshire your duties will include:
1. Responding to voluntary sector development requests, connecting appropriate resources, offering mentoring if required.
2. Supporting Charity Chats that help voluntary groups to reflect and understand potential challenges and solutions.
3. Building sector resilience and enabling a stronger voice that celebrates the strengths within communities. Brokering cross-sector opportunities to create shared outcomes using an asset-based community development approach.
4. Capturing and recording community development service impact, as well as community-led insight that can inform commissioners and change makers.
5. Connecting the voluntary sector into local strategy and action that can improve living conditions and tackle health inequalities.
How to apply
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