Financial Resilience Specialist - Flexible Working Opportunities (Apply in minutes)
Position:
Financial Resilience Officer Salary:
£35,235 - £41,511 per annum Location:
Honiton Home Working Hours:
Full Time - 37 hours (flexible working may be considered) Contract:
Fixed Term - 6 months About the role:
East Devon District Council is committed to tackling poverty, and this creative role plays an integral part in aiding the production of the Council's anti-poverty strategy. In this interesting and varied role, you will need to think outside the box and source ways to support people who are facing hardship and living in poverty. This will include accessing discretionary funding as appropriate and working in partnership with other organisations including Citizens Advice East Devon, Department for Works and Pensions, Housing Associations, food banks, and community groups in the voluntary sector. If you are passionate about helping to address the underlying root causes of poverty and motivated to be part of building a solution that works for our residents long term, we want to hear from you. Benefits:
In return, we can offer you a fantastic working environment in our purpose-built offices in Honiton, along with flexibility for homeworking. Working in a small but professional and dedicated team, you will have access to excellent benefits including generous annual leave, flexitime, access to a Local Government Pension Scheme, and salary sacrifice cycle scheme. Additionally, you'll be encouraged to take advantage of learning and development opportunities. About you:
With a good standard of education (GCSEs or equivalent), you will also ideally have knowledge of Welfare Benefits, Council Tax, and debt recovery legislation, as well as up-to-date knowledge of Housing, local and national policies. You should be able to review finances and budgets to help residents maximise income and minimise expenditure. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential to enable effective communication with a wide range of people, explaining complex legislation in a straightforward way and discussing sometimes difficult and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy. You will need to be a team player and self-motivated to organise and manage your own workload while also possessing problem-solving skills to find innovative and creative solutions to the issues and problems facing our residents. A valid driving license and own car are essential (reasonable adjustments may be possible according to the Equality Act). About us:
Our recent Local Government Association Peer Challenge highlighted that EDDC is a great place to work, with engaged staff and members, and that's certainly true! You will be part of a Gold Investors in People (IiP) organisation which works together with local people to create great value services and an outstanding community, economy, and environment in which people want to live, work, visit, and enjoy now, and for future generations. With our wide range of health and wellbeing benefits, our highly flexible and collaborative hybrid Worksmart working arrangements, as well as our commitment to continuous learning and development, you can be confident of joining a dedicated community of colleagues who are Happy, Healthy, and Here. Apply:
For more about working for East Devon District Council, visit
jobs.eastdevon.gov.uk . To apply online, please visit
here . For an informal discussion, please contact Sharon Church, Benefits & Financial Resilience Manager on 01395 571791 or email
schurch@eastdevon.gov.uk . Closing date:
26th January 2025
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Position:
Financial Resilience Officer Salary:
£35,235 - £41,511 per annum Location:
Honiton Home Working Hours:
Full Time - 37 hours (flexible working may be considered) Contract:
Fixed Term - 6 months About the role:
East Devon District Council is committed to tackling poverty, and this creative role plays an integral part in aiding the production of the Council's anti-poverty strategy. In this interesting and varied role, you will need to think outside the box and source ways to support people who are facing hardship and living in poverty. This will include accessing discretionary funding as appropriate and working in partnership with other organisations including Citizens Advice East Devon, Department for Works and Pensions, Housing Associations, food banks, and community groups in the voluntary sector. If you are passionate about helping to address the underlying root causes of poverty and motivated to be part of building a solution that works for our residents long term, we want to hear from you. Benefits:
In return, we can offer you a fantastic working environment in our purpose-built offices in Honiton, along with flexibility for homeworking. Working in a small but professional and dedicated team, you will have access to excellent benefits including generous annual leave, flexitime, access to a Local Government Pension Scheme, and salary sacrifice cycle scheme. Additionally, you'll be encouraged to take advantage of learning and development opportunities. About you:
With a good standard of education (GCSEs or equivalent), you will also ideally have knowledge of Welfare Benefits, Council Tax, and debt recovery legislation, as well as up-to-date knowledge of Housing, local and national policies. You should be able to review finances and budgets to help residents maximise income and minimise expenditure. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential to enable effective communication with a wide range of people, explaining complex legislation in a straightforward way and discussing sometimes difficult and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy. You will need to be a team player and self-motivated to organise and manage your own workload while also possessing problem-solving skills to find innovative and creative solutions to the issues and problems facing our residents. A valid driving license and own car are essential (reasonable adjustments may be possible according to the Equality Act). About us:
Our recent Local Government Association Peer Challenge highlighted that EDDC is a great place to work, with engaged staff and members, and that's certainly true! You will be part of a Gold Investors in People (IiP) organisation which works together with local people to create great value services and an outstanding community, economy, and environment in which people want to live, work, visit, and enjoy now, and for future generations. With our wide range of health and wellbeing benefits, our highly flexible and collaborative hybrid Worksmart working arrangements, as well as our commitment to continuous learning and development, you can be confident of joining a dedicated community of colleagues who are Happy, Healthy, and Here. Apply:
For more about working for East Devon District Council, visit
jobs.eastdevon.gov.uk . To apply online, please visit
here . For an informal discussion, please contact Sharon Church, Benefits & Financial Resilience Manager on 01395 571791 or email
schurch@eastdevon.gov.uk . Closing date:
26th January 2025
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