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Short Group Walks Delivery Officer

Role: Short Group Walks Delivery Officer
Contract: Fixed term 18 months
Salary: £28,193-36,000 pa (depending on experience and location)
Location: Vauxhall, London and one potentially home based near Manchester
Closing date: 17 March 2019
Interviews date: 27 March 2019 to 28 March 2019
Contact name: Rachael Bayley
Contact email: Rachael Bayley

Join Britain’s biggest walking charity to help everyone, everywhere, enjoy walking and protect the places we all love to walk. The Ramblers is the only charity dedicated to looking after paths and green spaces, leading walks, opening up new places to explore and encouraging everyone to get outside and discover how walking boosts your health and happiness.

The Ramblers Walking for Health programme supports local partners to deliver group walks and has been hugely successful in helping people get and stay active.  The programme has a new funder and is undergoing a significant transformation to make it more effective, integrated with others Ramblers activity, and sustainable. You will act as a link between the national team and local short group walk partners, supporting the work of our partners and helping them through a period of significant change.

This is an exciting time to join the Ramblers team and a great opportunity to make a lasting and tangible impact on the future success of the charity.

We are looking to recruit 2 SGW Delivery Officers, one of which may be home based

Essential requirements include:

  • Experience of project management and delivering a public health/physical activity programme
  • Excellent communication skills to communicate consistent messages and gain commitment from partners
  • Ability to develop strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to diagnose problems, provide solutions and make logical, timely decisions.
  • The ability to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment will be the key to success in this role.  

 

Although our goals will be clear and constant, our plans for how they can best be delivered will need to remain flexible. 

The Ramblers are an equal opportunities employer.  We warmly welcome applications from appropriately qualified people from all sections of the community and aim to promote diversity.  

The full job pack including job description and person specification can be found here: Job Pack – Short Group Walks Delivery Officer 
Application is by CV, covering letter and EO form, that may be found here – Equal Opps Monitoring Form

Completed applications should be sent by email to recruitment@ramblers.org.uk