The future of CCT’s outstanding collection of historic churches depends on communities supporting their local CCT church with funds, events, inspiring interpretation, visitor services and preventive conservation. The Local Community Officer will engage and support communities and volunteers to care for 13 historic churches across Norfolk, ensuring each site achieves agreed standards.

You will work closely with the Lead Local Community Officer, regional and national colleagues, volunteers, community groups and other local stakeholders. 

Key duties and responsibilities 

• Support and enable communities and volunteers to sustain their church, to raise funds, to hold events, and to provide inspiring interpretation, visitor services and care of the buildings.
• Establish and develop links with local communities, stakeholders and agencies •Understand the locality and its needs
• Promote the CCT church as an important local asset and visitor attraction
• Introduce and demonstrate models for communities’ support at CCT churches
• Empower communities and volunteers to develop use of churches within a CCT policy and procedural framework 
• Document community activity with statistical information, digital media and reports
• Draft, agree and publish church plans and any necessary partnership agreements or memoranda of understanding with third parties active at our churches Communications and Networking

The Local Community Officer will ensure that communities and volunteers have appropriate and timely contact with CCT.

• Organise and facilitate community and volunteer gatherings to enable networking and to address specific topics. 
• Contribute to all public and internal communications channels
• Communicate CCT policies, procedures and guidance on successful approaches, to ensure sustainable community and volunteering activity
• Review, respond to and relay messages relating to churches in your area in a timely way
• Support local communities with marketing and awareness
• Ensure we recognise and thank communities for their support

We have recently published our TRUST values, which outline the behaviours and expectations that act as our foundations at CCT. We have attached the pack, outlining each value, which we will also be using as part of our shortlisting and interview process to find the right candidates that align with our values.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.

If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us.

We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We would be delighted to hear from you. If you’d like to talk to us about this role before you apply please contact Karen Moore, Lead Local Community Officer, at kmoore@thecct.org.uk.

• Qualification or experience in any related discipline, such as fundraising, volunteer management or heritage management.
• Experience working with communities in a charity setting.
• Experience of engaging and supporting people to work together to initiate, develop and support activities in local communities.
• Excellent planning, time and project management skills.
• Strong IT skills and the ability to be administratively self-sufficient
• Ability to motivate voluntary activity from existing and prospective communities and individuals.
• Interpersonal skills which engage varied audiences.
• Public speaking, presentation and written communication skills.
• Interest in the CCT’s aims and objectives
• Access to own vehicle with valid MOT, adequate insurance cover and a valid licence. This role involves regular travel to sites that are not always accessible by public transport. Therefore, it is essential that the successful candidate has a current driving licence. 
• Regular travel This role involves regular travel across the region and/or nationally. You will be expected to use public transport as far as possible.