Digital Inclusion Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Tameside Council Employment and Skills Service to develop and deliver a two year programme of activities to address digital exclusion and increase digital skills within the borough.

We would love to hear from you if you have a real passion for working with communities and supporting people to gain new skills. This role is about creating and shaping digital inclusion work with people and organisations.

The aim of the role is to encourage and support local residents who lack one or more of the five basic digital skills to learn and gain confidence in their use of digital technologies. This may be by helping them engage with support already available or working to create new initiatives.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative individual who likes to work with people and technology, with experience in organising projects such as events and workshops and who can build strong partnerships within the council and with other organisations in both the public and private sector., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.