Common Connections Project Manager

How you'll make a difference:

The Common Connections project is a £1.25 million green infrastructure project seeking to reverse biodiversity decline across the local area, with funding from West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and South Gloucestershire Council.

As a Project Officer, you will provide ongoing project support to the Common Connections project, working alongside various stakeholders across the community.

What you will be doing:

• Working alongside a variety of stakeholders such as Friends of Parks representatives, suppliers, and council colleagues, you will provide ongoing day-to-day project support.
• You will be responsible for preparing and submitting funding claims as well as identifying additional funding sources to help enable the project scale.
• It will be key for you to analyse and interpret arising information relating to the project area.
• You will work with the local community to raise awareness of the project and to encourage buy-in and participation.
• Daily, you will provide effective line management to our Common Connections Engagement Officer.

What we need from you:

• You must have relevant professional or degree qualification or have relevant equivalent experience.
• It is a requirement that you have significant experience of environmental project delivery and business case preparation.
• Given the nature of the role, you will be working alongside partner organisations, elected members and local communities so you must have the ability to communicate with a wide range of people.

• This is a limited term contract until April 2026.
• We welcome applications for part-time or full-time hours for this post, please specify your preference on your application.
• We are also offering this as an internal secondment opportunity, you should first seek your line managers permission before applying.

Interviews will be held on Friday 24th January.

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
• As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Common Connections Project Manager - Job Description