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Social and Community Engagement lead
What is day-to-day life like as a Social and Community Engagement Lead and what are the main responsibilities, and what skills do you need to excel?
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Role Profile
As a Community Engagement Manager it is your responsibility to have a community outreach and creatively find ways to execute events and activities which are required for the company. One of the main aspects of your role is to work with volunteers who want to help with events. You'll take the lead in training and supervising them during these events and ensuring everything is running smoothly. You also will be required to take charge of general communications duties and projects. It is important that you are good at public speaking and comfortable with working with big groups.
Key responsibilities
Be a confident speaker and be able to work. well with groups
Find opportunities for third party events and communicate with organisers
Develop and keep project schedules up to date
Have a marketing plan for events and implement intuitive ways of getting this across to different audiences
Have strong interpersonal skills in ensuring a good working relationship with collegues and environment
Work on projects with volunteers and help train and supervise them during events
Recruitment plans must be in place when preparing for events to ensure that everything runs smoothly
Requirements
Excellent communications skills when liasing with companies and supervising volunteers
Have a good level of confidence when dealing with volunteers in projects
Be able to work independently as well as in a group when working with different departments and volunteers
Be very organised and have good time keeping skills as well as being able to manage multiple projects at once
Have some knowledge of using Excel when managing events to ensure it is planned methodically
Be able to multi-task and meet deadlines constantly as it is an intense role
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