Town Regeneration Officer

Description:

The role of the Town Regeneration Officer (TRO) will be to support the establishment and ongoing work of Town Teams, ensuring development and delivery on the Town Centre First Plan alongside local champions. They will be a vital link between the Town Teams, the expertise within the Local Authority and other organisations, and will facilitate the Town Teams in accessing funding, delivering on projects and supporting implementation at a local a level. The TRO will be expected to develop a broad, detailed understanding of the varied challenges facing the regeneration of Irish towns and what instruments and supports are available to address those challenges. Ultimately, the TRO will need to ensure that the TCF programme becomes an inclusive participatory process through active participation of the County Council’s, local Town Teams, property owners, business community, elected members and government agencies.

The main objectives of the TRO will include delivering the TCF policy on the ground by promoting engagement, ensuring supports are provided to the TCF Champion & Town Teams, that town meetings operate in an orderly and professional manner, that realistic expectations are set, and also provide direction/advice to stakeholders when seeking supports and funding. In this context the role will be multifaceted, concerning itself with outcomes as well as activation.

The TRO role will also include contributing to a national Network of TRO’s, which will help ensure consistency of approach, deliver shared learnings, and feed key information and feedback to the National Town Centre First office, in a manner that will streamline supports and maximise returns on the overall programme.
An annual workplan will be developed and agreed within the local authorities including the identification of the participating towns within each LA. These local authority workplans will be combined to form an annual national TCF workplan coordinated and supported by the National TCF office. The TRO will support each town/village involved to build a local team to identify issues and gaps at local level. The goal would be to create deliverable town visions and action plans in partnership with community members with focus on all of pillars of the TCF programme to ensure a level of national consistency.

• Be well educated.

• Have satisfactory experience in any discipline and satisfactory experience in the organisation and control of staff.
• Have significant experience of the following in a multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary environment:
• people management
• project management
• community engagement
• public consultation
• managing budgets
• delivery of programmes
• strategic change and management