Community Insight and Partnerships Officer

Connecting evidence, community experience and local action to build a shared understanding of East Surrey Be part of establishing a new Community Insight Partnership. Are you a skilled relationship-builder who can bring people together, identify themes across different sources of information and turn community intelligence into clear, useful insight? The Opportunity ESCIP is a one-year proof of concept designed to strengthen how community experience and VCSE intelligence inform local decision-making. It connects voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations with health, local authority and wider partners, creating stronger two-way feedback between communities and decision-makers. This is not primarily an administrative post. You will build trusted relationships, coordinate a new quarterly forum, develop practical ways to gather and synthesise intelligence, and demonstrate how insight has influenced priorities and action. Because the programme is new, you will have genuine scope to shape how it works. What You Will Achieve Over the first 12 months, you will: Establish a quarterly East Surrey VCSE and Community Forum. Build trusted relationships with diverse VCSE organisations, including smaller groups and under-represented communities. Develop and test practical two-way feedback mechanisms between communities, VCSE partners and system leaders. Map intelligence sources and introduce consistent approaches to gathering and synthesising insight. Produce concise ..... full job details .....