About the role

Contract Term: 1 year fixed-term contract, with the potential to extend

We are looking for a Participation Officer who is enthusiastic and empathetic by nature and has experience of working with communities. The successful candidate will work on our health and care project and will build and maintain engagement with our project participants.

About you

You will play a key role in ensuring that people who take part in our projects feel connected to us and want to continue being part of our ground-breaking work. In addition to this, you’ll be involved in the development of national level policy, so the role is ideally suited for someone with experience of building local or regional engagement but has an interest in learning about how national policymaking works.

We will support the right candidate to develop into the role and are open to secondments.

Key tasks of the role

• Developing and implementing plans for participant engagement, focused on ensuring that people who have taken part in one activity continue to be an active part of the process, including arranging workshops with existing participants to find out how they would like to stay involved

• Build trusting relationships with participants taking part in in our citizen’s assembly (the People’s Panel) and keeping them engaged with our work between People’s Panel meetings 

• Supporting recruitment and onboarding of participants for co-design work on health and care, which we will launch in 2022 (the Co-design Workstreams) and managing ongoing contact with those participants

• Ensuring that we have contact details for participants who have taken part in our discussions/workshops and that we obtain the necessary consent from participants to be able to use the content from those sessions, which adheres to GDPR

• Managing participants’ day to day queries and be the first point of contact for them

• Developing and implementing activities with other health and care sector partners to bring together our participants with their members for joint campaigning and advocacy

• Working with the Engagement and Communications team and the Director of Advocacy to identify people who would be good media spokespeople and / or advocates for the co-created policies and support them to grow into this role with Engage Britain

• Working with the Analysis team, to enable participants to play an active role in co-design and work together to feed their contributions into the policy making process.

Our culture

We are committed to creating a culture where people from different backgrounds and cultures can come together to share their views and voice. We see difference – both in our work and in our employees – as a strength, so we actively encourage applicants from all ethnicities, political backgrounds and locations across the UK, those with or without a university education, as well as people who identify as LGBTQ+ or people who may have disabilities, to apply for roles.

We are also a family friendly organisation and are open to different flexible working arrangements from people across the UK.

Application details  

As an employer we use the Beapplied platform for applications. Bepplied seeks to remove unconscious bias from hiring processes. 

The application process:

• We ask for candidates to complete four short answer questions.

• Reviews of short answer questions are blind sifted. Each of your answers will be reviewed separately and will be anonymous.  Reviewers will have banks of questions to review across various candidates, so they won’t see your full application in one go. It is therefore essential that you treat each question individually and do not make links to other questions e.g., “please see previous question”.

• You will be asked to upload your CV. However, to maintain the blind process for the review stage (sift) we will only look at CVs at the point in which we are shortlisting applications.

Closing date: Wednesday 7 July 2021, 10:00 BST.

Further information:        

For more information on this role including a detailed job description and person specification, visit https://engagebritain.org/jobs/

If you’d like to speak to someone about the role, please email: recruitment@engagebritain.org.

NB: If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply, please let us know by emailing us on recruitment@engagebritain.org or calling on 020 3031 8190.