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Community Engagement and Education Officer
Grade 5 (£33,699 – £37,280 per annum)
37 hours per week
Permanent
Ashfield Fire Station, Sutton Road, Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire NG17 8HX

Join Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service – We’re Hiring Now!
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Community Engagement and Education Officer to join our Community Safety team. This is a rewarding role where you’ll work directly with communities across Nottinghamshire, helping to reduce risk, prevent incidents and ultimately create safer communities.

You’ll take the lead on developing and delivering projects for youth engagement and education programmes, working closely with partners and local organisations to ensure our work reaches those who need it most. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, using data to inform decisions, and making a real difference at a community level.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and evaluate community engagement and prevention programmes aligned to local needs

• Work collaboratively with partners, stakeholders and internal teams to reduce risk and improve community safety

• Use data and insight to identify trends, target areas of need, and support decision-making

• Promote fire safety and prevention messages through community outreach and engagement activities

• Build positive relationships with diverse communities, ensuring services are inclusive and accessible

• Identify funding opportunities and make effective use of partnership resources

• Support and manage Community Engagement Workers, including coordinating workloads and sharing best practice

• Monitor and evaluate programmes, producing reports and recommendations for improvement

• Work with communications teams to promote campaigns and increase community awareness

• Make referrals and support safeguarding processes where risks are identified

Experience/Qualification

• Experience of managing or delivering projects or programmes, including evaluation of successful programmes

• Ability to work effectively with partners and build strong working relationships

• Experience of delivering education, training or community engagement activities

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of audiences

• Ability to use data and information to inform decisions and improve outcomes

• Understanding of safeguarding, risk awareness and working with diverse communities.
To understand the role in more details, please read the attached job description and person specification document

Why Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service?

• Agile Working – We are very proud to offer employees the ability to mix office working with working from home to provide flexibility to help with your work life balance.

• Flexibility – We are family friendly and are open to considering different working patterns which help you provide a better service to our community while supporting your home life. We are also open to part time working.

• Annual Leave - 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and a Christmas concessionary day.

• Health and Wellbeing – As a Service we provide a wide range of Health and Wellbeing support to all our employees which includes a membership to Bupa and a dedicated Occupational Health team who are there to support you. Also, all employees receive free access to a gym.

• Blue Light Card enabling discounts on shopping and eating out

• Development – You will have access to both formal and informal professional development opportunities which will help you advance your career.

• Pension – Access to a public service defined benefit pension scheme.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and develop youth engagement activities across Nottinghamshire, helping communities stay safe, through innovative education and prevention initiatives. If you feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for and want to play an integral part in keeping Nottinghamshire communities safe, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Further Information

We are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments.
NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process.

The successful candidate will be subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have had 3 years continuous residency in the UK to be eligible for a Police Vetting check.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted in place of application forms.

Closing date: 23:59 20th September 2026

Interview date: 5th October 2026