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Candidate Pack Recruitment Information Coastal Communities Team Officer December 2017 1 Contents 1. Welcome from the Chair ...................................................................................................... 3 2. Welcome from the Chief Executive ...................................................................................... 4 3. The role ................................................................................................................................. 5 4. Morecambe Bay’s Coastal Communities Fund work ........................................................... 5 Bay Cycle Way ........................................................................................................................... 6 Morecambe Bay Electric Bike Network .................................................................................... 6 Visitor Welcome Training ......................................................................................................... 7 Discover Morecambe Bay - Accessible Routes For All Users ................................................... 7 Visitor information, Seldom Seen, Heysham Head App, Sense of Place ................................. 8 5. Ongoing Coastal Communities Fund projects ...................................................................... 9 Morecambe Bay Electric Bike Network .................................................................................... 9 Discover Morecambe Bay - Accessible Routes For All Users ................................................... 9 Bay Cycle Way – route improvements and loops and spurs ................................................. 10 Implementing the brand, improving visitor Information ...................................................... 10 6. Morecambe Bay Coastal Community Team ....................................................................... 11 7. Job Description .................................................................................................................... 12 8. Person Specification ............................................................................................................ 14 9. Terms and conditions of appointment ............................................................................... 16 10. How to Apply ....................................................................................................................... 16 11. General Contacts ................................................................................................................. 17 2 1. Welcome from the Chair Thank you for your interest in joining the Morecambe Bay Partnership team. Morecambe Bay Partnership celebrates and conserves; connects and collaborates. From birds to battleships, from cycleways to art, the Partnership delivers projects that make great things happen for our communities. We are a unique organisation with a broad multi-sector view cutting across boundaries around the Bay. We seek out, spark and shape new ideas, joining with others to deliver award winning economic, tourism, heritage, environment, arts, and community projects. Our portfolio of projects celebrates the richness of the Bay’s heritage, and gives it a contemporary resonance. We see the Bay’s distinctive assets, as drivers for a sustainable visitor economy and we want to bring benefits for our local communities from all our work. For instance, the Bay Cycle Way, which we launched in 2015, showcases the Bay, linking up attractions and viewpoints. It has been evaluated as contributing between a quarter and a third of a million pounds annual to the local economy. Clearly it is opening up the Bay to new visitors and well as generating income for local businesses. We are looking for a capable and enthusiastic Coastal Communities Team Officer to join us. The Coastal Communities Team Officer will be supported by, and report to the Morecambe Bay Coastal Community Team. The CCT is led by Morecambe Bay Partnership and brings together partners from local authorities, Cumbria Tourism, Marketing Lancashire, Bay Tourism as well as others with specific expertise. You will join us at an exciting and significant time as the local authorities work together under the Bay Powerhouse banner and a range of other developments take shape. The Partnership itself is moving through an ambitious programme to improve our resilience. The Partnership’s Board has been reinvigorated with four new Trustees. We are developing new programmes, redefining our future direction and looking to secure further funding to deliver our ambitions. If you share our passion for delivering and developing great projects, share our desire to make a difference and want to commit your energy to support economic programmes for the Bay’s communities, then we’d love to hear from you. Richard Greenwood Acting Chair of Morecambe Bay Partnership 3 2. Welcome from the Chief Executive Morecambe Bay is a place like no other – an awe-inspiring place, a kaleidoscope of water and light; sea and sky; sound, texture and colour. Our vision is a thriving Bay, rich in landscape, wildlife and culture, which connects and inspires residents and visitors alike. Our projects are very varied – with heritage volunteers recording oral histories to save and share the stories of our veteran fishermen and measures to protect the roosts of wading birds so they are safeguarded and they can continue to provide a spectacle for us to wonder at, and enjoy. For this role, the immediate programme for the Coastal Communities Team Officer includes • Playing an active role in shaping the development of the Coastal Communities Team. • Developing and supporting the Morecambe Bay Electric Bike Network • Developing disabled access for visitors and local people • Delivering new signage at stations, embedding the Morecambe Bay visitor brand and providing new information for visitors • Scoping, consulting, developing and bid-writing for new economic projects, and • Building the capacity and profile of the new Morecambe Bay Coastal Community Team as it develops an action plan based on the recently published economic plan. Partnerships are at the core of the way we work. In developing the Coastal Communities Team we want to find new ways of joint working, ensuring initiatives dovetail to deliver the best possible value for money. We are looking for someone who can engage and inspire organisations to work together and bring benefits to the communities across Lancashire and Cumbria county boundary. Alongside this there is a small portfolio of on-going grant-funded projects to manage and deliver. If you are excited by this and would like to join our friendly and ambitious team, work to strengthen our partnerships, our projects, and be part of something bigger, then we’d be delighted to hear from you. Our office is in The Factory on Aynam Road in Kendal – a creative hub and a great place to work. We offer a supportive, collaborative environment, and flexible working. We expect you to be committed to making a positive difference to our communities The Partnership has received numerous awards - a reflection of the dedication and commitment of the team. I could not imagine a better group of colleagues. If you think this sounds like the place you want to work, and where you can contribute your talents and grow professionally, then we would be delighted to hear from you. Susannah Bleakley Chief Executive of Morecambe Bay Partnership 4 3. The role This role as Coastal Communities Team Officer combines (i) project delivery with (ii) Coastal Communities Team development. There are four projects with on-going activity from previous Coastal Communities Fund awards. These need further co-ordination and delivery work as outlined in section 5 below. A new Coastal Community Team for Morecambe Bay was formed in 2017. This new partnership needs support and development to be effective in driving strategic economic activity around the Bay. Janet Barton left Morecambe Bay Partnership in 2017 after 4 years leading the Coastal Communities Funded work including the delivery of the Bay Cycle way and other projects, some outlined in section 4 below. In 2017 DCLG invited new applications for Coastal Communities Teams. Morecambe Bay Partnership took forward the development of a Morecambe Bay Coastal Communities Team. Jenny Wain, our funding and development officer led this work. Working with South Lakeland District Council and other partners, we developed an Economic Plan. This is available here. The Morecambe Bay Coastal Community team is still in its early stages. It is seeks to supports communities around Morecambe Bay to collaborate, address the challenges that they face, and build a stronger bay-wide economy. This role will be crucial to the success of the Coastal Communities Team in driving forward growth and building effective partnerships. The success will, in part, be a reflection of the energy and ability of the Coastal Communities Team Officer. 4. Morecambe Bay’s Coastal Communities Fund work Morecambe Bay Partnership received awards from the Coastal Communities Fund in rounds 1 and 3. These funded a portfolio of projects to kick-start growth in the visitor economy, develop sustainable tourism growth and support Morecambe Bay as a destination. The headline achievements are • STEAM: 4.8% increase in visitor days, 3.3% increase in visitor numbers, 10.6% increase in revenue = £78m uplift against 2012 baseline. • On-going success and development of the Bay Cycle Way – evaluated to generate annual spend of between
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