Community Engagement Officer

As a Community Engagement Officer, you'll play a key role in encouraging residents, schools and local communities to embrace recycling and make more sustainable choices.

Your core responsibilities:

• Organise and attend promotional roadshows, community events and local meetings to raise awareness of recycling initiatives.
• Visit households in underperforming areas to encourage participation, address concerns and reduce recycling contamination.
• Develop and deliver engaging recycling education programmes for local schools and colleges.
• Build relationships with community groups and support local recycling initiatives and community champions.
• Monitor recycling performance and contribute to monthly management reports, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Support applications for environmental and recycling grant funding.
• Help create press releases and promotional materials to increase awareness of recycling services and initiatives.
• Work collaboratively across regional contracts, supporting wider recycling campaigns and additional community engagement activities.

Essential requirements:

• Full UK driving licence, with the flexibility to travel across the region as required.
• Experience delivering presentations or engaging with schools, community groups or members of the public.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence, persuade and engage a diverse range of people.
• A passion for environmental issues and a genuine interest in changing attitudes towards waste and recycling.

Desirable requirements:

• Experience within the waste management or service industry, with an understanding of recycling and waste management practices.
• Experience working towards service delivery KPIs, supporting continuous improvement or producing and analysing performance reports.

Benefits:

• Ongoing career development, training and coaching
• Generous pension scheme
• Retail and leisure discounts
• Holiday and travel discounts
• Plus much more...