Community Investment & Social Value Officer in Royal Tunbridge Wells

Our Vacancy We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Community Investment & Social Value Officer to join our team and help make a positive difference in the communities we serve. This is an exciting opportunity to support and deliver projects that improve residents' lives, strengthen local partnerships, and create meaningful social value outcomes across our neighbourhoods. You'll work closely with residents, community organisations, colleagues, and contractors to develop initiatives that align with our strategic priorities and community needs. What You Will Do You'll play a key role in helping us deliver meaningful social value and community investment initiatives that make a real difference to the lives of our residents. Working closely with colleagues, contractors, local organisations and community groups, you'll help develop and coordinate projects that support employment, skills, health, wellbeing and financial inclusion. You'll build strong partnerships, identify opportunities for investment, and ensure our activities reflect the needs of the communities we serve. Alongside this, you'll monitor the impact of projects, celebrate successes, and use data and resident feedback to continuously improve our approach and maximise positive outcomes. What You Will Need We're looking for someone who is passionate about creating stronger communities and delivering positive social impact. You'll have experience of working with a range of stakeholders, building productive relationships and supporting projects or community-based initiatives from concept through to delivery. You'll be a confident communicator who can engage with residents, partners and colleagues at all levels, with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities. A proactive and solutions-focused approach is essential, as is the ability to use insight and data to measure success and identify opportunities for improvement. Knowledge of community development, social value, employment and skills programmes, or partnership working would be advantageous, along with excellent IT skills and a commitment to delivering outstanding outcomes for our communities. Why join us When you join Town and Country Housing, you're joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included and empowered. What we offer * Contributory pension scheme up to 10% matched contributions * Life assurance of 4x annual salary (Terms and Conditions apply) * 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays * Two volunteer days per year * 24/7 digital GP service and counselling helpline (including face-to-face sessions) * Free annual eye test voucher and contribution towards glasses * Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave provision * Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal * Annual flu vaccinations Please read before applying: * You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide a visa sponsorship. * We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. * This is a hybrid role where we expect all staff to come into their base office 2 days a week (everyday during induction which could be up to 3 months) If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we'd love to hear from you. Click 'Apply Now' to complete our online application process and provide details of your skills, experience, and achievements. We look forward to learning more about what you can bring to Town & Country Housing. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. We will make reasonable adjustments where required throughout the recruitment process. Applicants who require reasonable adjustments to the application process, assessment methods, interview arrangements or other recruitment activities are encouraged to let us know of how we can offer support to enable them to participate fully. Interviews will be taking place in person 17th November