Community Projects Co-ordinators (Active Travel)

THE POSTS BELOW ARE NOW CLOSED.

The Partnership will be recruiting two new posts, one with Groundwork and one with WalkRide, to form the project team and:

• Develop and deliver high quality community led projects within the Chorlton Climate Action Partnership work programme, ensuring impact targets are achieved and projects are delivered within budget and on time.
• Embedded within the Chorlton community, build on the work already undertaken by local community groups to create a more engaged overall community, and wider and stronger climate action movement.
• Build the case and groundwork for reduced car journeys in Chorlton, using data, knowledge of the community, vehicle patterns and personal journeys to help the community find solutions to the traffic, pollution and emissions problems faced
• Champion sustainable travel, sharing learning and drawing on local, national and international best practice.

Office base:  Chorlton office, Trafford Ecology Park, home working.

The ideal candidate has a wide range of experience with diverse communities, leading and delivering sustainability / environmental projects, engaging and empowering the community and promoting active travel. You will have good knowledge of current sustainability issues, have developed partnerships with organisations across sectors and have strong project management and communications skills.

Thanks to the National Lottery Climate Action Fund