Community Outreach Specialist — Flexible Hours, East Sussex in Eastbourne

Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive! At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and well-being programmes that make people happier and healthier! We’re looking for a Community Outreach Officer to One You East Sussex.

This role will consist of working with communities across East Sussex, ensuring strong partnership working and delivery of overall One You East Sussex targets. If you have strong people skills this role could be for you. The post will involve a significant amount of work within East Sussex, out & about in the community, including some evenings and weekend work. It would be suitable for a resident of East Sussex or someone who has a good knowledge of the locality.

Like all roles at Thrive Tribe, you can expect your time at work to be fun, varied and challenging. We don’t like to stick to a firm JD as we know from experience that things change throughout the lifetime of a role and it gives our people the chance to play to their strengths.

Some of the key expectations as a Community Outreach Officer might include:

• Liaising with external organisations to build effective partnerships.
• Promotions of the One You East Sussex Service particularly within voluntary and community services.
• Identifying areas where service delivery needs to be increased and implementing strategic plans to do so, improving the programme’s outcomes.
• Extensive work with hard to reach groups and populations to provide promotion and early health interventions.
• Provide some level of healthy lifestyle interventions as you will be trained in behaviour change techniques to provide on the spot interventions to different communities.
• Delivering presentations and training, attending community outreach events and having bespoke conversations to ensure strong referral routes into our service.
• Working with the existing team on marketing for the One You East Sussex service; this could be design work, Google adverts, stakeholder newsletters and content across our social media platforms.
• Working with the Service’s leads to develop and deliver plans and campaigns to promote the service and ensure adequate activity levels.
• Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments.
• Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values!

All to be underpinned by co-production work done with key priority groups to ensure all resources are tailored according to need.

About you...

More than anything, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart into their work. We’ve got some core values that run through everything we do, and we’d love it if they resonate with you too!

• Be the change - You like helping people. You’ll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive.
• Be effective - You’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people. And have a great attitude.
• Be happy - You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go.
• Be successful - You are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets.
• Be big-hearted - You want to make a difference. Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, we want the same thing to do meaningful work and change lives.

We’re looking for someone with a bubbly personality who thrives on engaging with members of the public as well as stakeholders. You will have a good understanding of health inequalities, bonus points if you have experience of engaging with priority groups! However, we hire based on attitude over traditional skills and experience so if you feel you are right for the job we would love to hear from you!

Perks...

Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we’re unstoppable. Within our buzzing environment our talented people work hard but we ensure lots of fun is thrown in too! We offer you:

• Flexible working model
• Regular events and team days, including ThriveFest!
• Employee Health and Wellbeing Programmes including access to life coaching
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants and days out
• Pension and Life Insurance Schemes
• A day on us to live by our values!

Contract: Fixed Term – 1 year contract, Part time (0.8 FTE, 4 days to be negotiated but must include a Thursday), extension may be possible depending on future funding.

Salary: £24,784 (This will be pro rata down for the 0.8 FTE role)

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 9am 13th April 2026. Applicants will be contacted to outline the next stages of the process. Interviews are likely to take place w/c 13th April 2026.

Location: This job is a hybrid role with expected travel in & around East Sussex for most of the week, may also include some working from home. (Car driver is essential)

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to have the right to work in the UK.

We believe that every person has the right to thrive at work, which is why we are committed to equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate. Should you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process please let us know in your application.