Living With Water Community Co-ordinator

Number of Vacancies:

1

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Proposed Interview Date:

Monday, July 20, 2026

Hours of Work:

37

Hiring Manager:

Rachel Glossop

Contact Number: 

01482 612129

Job Description Summary:

This is a full time, fixed term role for 18 months due to funding.

We’re looking for a passionate and people-focused Community Coordinator to help bring the Living with Water programme to life across Hull and the East Riding.

Living with Water is a long-term partnership tackling flood risk while creating more resilient communities. As our Community Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of this work connecting with residents, schools, and community groups to ensure people understand and benefit from what we deliver.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role where no two days are the same. One day you might be delivering activities in a school, the next supporting a local event or gathering insight from residents to influence future schemes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Planning and coordinating community engagement activity across both scheme and non-scheme areas
• Attending and supporting local events, acting as a friendly and knowledgeable point of contact
• Building meaningful relationships with residents, schools, community groups, and local partners
• Acting as an ambassador for Living with Water, ensuring consistent messaging and a strong, trusted presence in communities
• Managing and supporting the Living with Water volunteer ambassador network
• Gathering local insight and resident feedback to help shape and improve the Communications and Engagement Strategy
• Working with key local stakeholders (e.g. Hull Food Partnership, community growers, local networks) to maximise impact
• Supporting inclusive engagement, helping us reach diverse communities and enhance the cultural offer of Living with Water
• Delivering engaging sessions in schools and colleges, inspiring the next generation to understand water, environment, and climate resilience

We’re looking for someone who is:

• A confident communicator who enjoys working with people from all walks of life
• Experienced in community engagement, volunteer management, outreach, or a similar role
• Organised and able to coordinate multiple activities and events
• Passionate about communities, environment, and making a difference locally
• Comfortable representing a partnership programme and working across organisations
• Creative in finding ways to engage new and diverse audiences
• Able to translate complex information into clear, accessible messages

Experience working with volunteers, schools, or community organisations would be a strong advantage.

If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

Hull has the 2nd highest level of flood risk in the UK outside of London. The risk is a combination of multiple sources; tidal, fluvial, surface water, sewer and ground water. There are many organisations with a role in managing the flood risk. These organisations have formed the Living with Water Partnership which aims to create a thriving community in Hull and Haltemprice through working together on flood risk management to become an international exemplar for living in harmony with water.The Living with Water team are currently involved in a £40million programme of investment into the infrastructure for the city. This involves a large amount of community engagement and comms to ensure that communities understand their flood risk and know the simple steps or tools they can use to increase their resilience and adapt to climate- based weather events, such as floods or heatwave. The purpose of the role would be to work with many of the existing different charities, networks and community groups to co-ordinate the messaging and awareness around Living with Water. This would ensure there is greater alignment of objectives of engagement and an effective way of engaging using trusted groups already established. The role would also project manage a small scheme to retrofit water saving devices, such as water butts, rain gardens or planters, on existing community buildings to help educate around the storage and reuse of water. The role would be required to:To work with the Partnership Teams to develop engagement strategies that will deliver the business and partnership objectives of Living with Water programme via multi-channel and multi-audience engagement.To support the delivery of the LWW stakeholder engagement and communications strategy across multi-channels and multi-audiences.To support on the implementation of the programme/strategy for the duration of the project.To work with the stakeholder engagement team to ensure our engagement plan strengthens our relationships in local communities in the build up to our legacy programme.To work with internal stakeholders in the partners at all levels to maximise programme value.To ensure activity meets LWW objectives and is brand compliant (internally and externally).To showcase the benefit LWW brings to local communities, particularly in its offering in Hull and the East Riding.To be an ambassador for LWW externally.Work with comms manager to budget effectively projects assigned to them as part of the engagement plan to contribute to community events and for the water saving project.

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1 Strategy - Identify existing community groups and networks throughout Hull and Haltemprice and analyse their objectives, visions, influence and projects.Gather evidence and information to enable the production of reports, papers, strategic documents or guidance for the various boards, committees, internal teams and Strategic Partnerships to raise awareness and promote the aims and objectives of the Living with Water partnership.Map out the existing networks so we can establish who is doing what and how LWW can align.Review and detail the existing or proposed projects in Hull and Haltemprice which are linked or could be linked to LWW. Review previous LWW linked projects to ensure actions and recommendations are collated and progressed in future works.

2 Customer Focus - Develop and grow relationships with community groups/charities who have been approached and are working with LWW.Work with LWW and Susdrainable to deliver a small-scale water butt/planter project in the identified priority areas in the AMP 7 programme. Co-ordinate work between the LWW project team and Susdrainable in terms of priority areas for the offer of water butts/planters. Create an efficient process for procuring and contracting with Susdrainable to deliver this piece of work.

3 Performance Management - Pursue opportunities to publicise, promote and present on the aims and objectives of the Living with Water partnership. Produce a sustainable way of tracking and monitoring the number of community groups and charities working with or approached by LWW.Work with existing team to create and administer an engagement sub group to bring together the various pieces of work on existing schemes and strategies (LWW, Blue Green Plan, Humber 2100+, Holderness Drain FAS, Risky Cities). Put legacy steps in place to ensure that this group can continue after the placement ends.Monitor and evaluate the success of the community co-ordinator role and assess how to sustain the work in the future. Create a system for monitoring, recording and assessing the success of the engagement.

4 Leadership – Develop and deliver training to identified priority groups (such as the LWW ambassadors) so they have the tools, support and knowledge to enable them to help with the engagement, co-creation and awareness raising.Co-ordinate the community engagement and projects across the partnership and area to avoid duplication of effort, funding bids and resource and to ensure consistency.

5 Statutory Obligations – Ensure all data gathered and used is in-line with the LWW partners data policies and GDPR.

 

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Compensation Grades:

GRADES 10.

Pay Ranges:

£45,091.00 - £48,226.00

Job Classifications:

3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), 5- Enhanced (Child Workforce) - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement), No - (Statutory Post)

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. 

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

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