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Community Engagement and Insight Coordinator

Job Description

Do you want to work for a dynamic, creative, fast-paced charity?

At Action Together we see the amazing things people achieve when they work together to make the lives of others better. If you share our values: believe it’s possible, strengthen others, and be true, we’d love you to consider joining our team.

Community Engagement and Insight Coordinator

The role

Our Systems Change team works to address the root causes of poverty and inequalities through enabling collaboration, campaigning, voice and influence.

Within our Systems Change team, this role will lead on strengthening our approach to gathering and using community insight and data to inform our work and influence strategic decision-making. You will have a wide-ranging remit around influencing change through community-led data and insight, with a focus on health inequalities. 

The role will lead on a project to influence NHS GM decision-making through capturing, analysing and sharing community insight. This will include facilitating a network of community organisations who are passionate about influencing change through community insight and leading on the co-design and project management of specific pieces of engagement.

You will work closely with our members to support them to address health inequalities in their communities, making community data and insight accessible and supporting groups to turn ideas into action through approaches such as co-design workshops and participatory grantmaking.

Finally you will lead on developing systems to capture data and insight across Action Together’s work, analysing and reporting on what we learn, to ensure community insight leads to tangible change

The ideal candidate for this role will be someone who…

• Brings together analytical, strategic, creative and relational talents.
• Can work flexibly and creatively, confident both analysing data and facilitating communities to turn ideas into action.
• Can make sense of complex information, analyse data and communicate it accessibly to generate learning and action.
• Is driven by social justice and addressing the root causes of health inequalities and wider systemic issues faced by local communities.
• Is rooted in community and understands the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise Sector.
• Is a networker and can easily build strong, trusting relationships with people and organisations.
• Is an excellent communicator and effective in producing reports and presentations to a wide variety of audiences

This vacancy closes at 9am on Monday 19 May 2025.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 05 June 2025 and will include a panel interview and task.

Please note, the successful candidates will be required to undertake a basic Disclosure and barring Service (DBS) check. A positive Disclosure of Offences will not automatically bar an applicant from being appointed and suitable applicants will not be refused employment because of offences that are not relevant.

At Action Together we value diversity, promote equity and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to ensuring that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race.

Action Together is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We expect all of our employees to demonstrate this commitment.

Support for applicants

We understand that not all applicants have access to the same support or opportunities for interview preparation, so we have included a range of support available on our Work with Us page.

• Flexible working opportunities
• Membership of SimplyHealth which pays a contribution towards the costs of visiting the dentist, opticians as well as access to counselling services
• Ongoing professional development
• Cycle and tech loan schemes
• 26 days holiday per year (increasing with length of service up to 30 days per year) plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme - with 6% employer contribution