# Community Engagement Officer

**Company**: Biffa Waste Services
**Location**: Manchester, England
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Facilities Management

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## Description

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...

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## Skills

### Required
- UK driving licence
- presentation skills
- communication skills
- environmental knowledge

### Nice to have
- waste management experience
- service delivery KPIs
- performance reporting

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