Recycling Engagement Officer

Working in Groundwork's Land and Communities Team, and in close partnership with Northumberland County Council and Suez Recycling and Recovery, this post will engage with households and partners across Northumberland to reduce contamination in the recycling waste stream and change recycling behaviours. You will work with the County Council's Refuse Collection Teams and Waste Managers to deliver a programme of targeted doorstep engagement, monitoring and community engagement activity aimed at reducing contamination and increasing recycling. As a Recycling Engagement Officer you will exercise your delegated powers to address residential waste offences.

The postholder will be hardworking, flexible and passionate about making a difference. You will be a strong and persuasive communicator, able to understand legislation and council policies and to explain these in simple terms to residents through correspondence and conversation. You will be unafraid of getting your hands dirty and comfortable with regularly working outdoors.

Groundwork aims to be the UK's leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork's mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential. As an organisation, we are proud of the effective role that our Community Project Managers play in delivering significant social, environmental and health outcomes with communities across the region., We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults