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Passionate about helping people? Want to make a difference? Come and join the team.

You will connect with families and young people across West Oxfordshire who face barriers to accessing opportunities. Working on projects, which tackle this disadvantage and as a result improve wellbeing, you will get valuable experience of community development and strengths based practice. You will be embedded within a team of dedicated and highly experienced colleagues and focus on projects such as our brand new You Move programme, the Holiday Activity and Food programme and our Youth Needs Assessment. There will be lots of variety and interaction with a number of different settings. Tasks will include talking to residents and groups, helping to organise activities, communications, liaising with delivery organisations such as Leisure centres, undertaking administrative support and helping to arrange events.

You will need

  • Studying towards or recently (in the past 18 months) achieved a degree in Community Development, Humanities, Health and Wellbeing or Social Sciences.
  • Experience of organising projects would be an advantage.
  • Being a confident communicator with excellent listening skills, able to engage well with those who lack confidence and need understanding is important.

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

Who we are

Publica is a unique place to work – we’re a local government organisation with a twist! Publica wants to transform the way local services are delivered. To help do this we have started to fundamentally rethink the way we design our services in the digital era so that Publica is a customer focused organisation driven by real user needs.

What can we do for you

  • Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
  • Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
  • 26 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
  • Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
  • Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
  • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with huge tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
  • Access to digital financial advice (covering your pension scheme, mortgages and other finances)
  • Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
  • Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
  • Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary