Senior Neighbourhood Development Officer

The Senior Neighbourhood Development Officer will support the Neighbourhood Partnerships Operations Manager in developing and leading the Neighbourhood Partnerships Team, driving a place-based approach to community engagement and development across Nottingham. The role will strengthen collaboration between communities, the Council, and key stakeholders, empowering residents to identify local priorities, influence decision-making, and play an active role in shaping their neighbourhoods. By connecting communities with services, partners, and resources, the postholder will support the delivery of sustainable, locally led solutions that improve outcomes and enhance quality of life for people living in the City of Nottingham.

A key aspect of this role will be the direct supervision and management of a team of seven Neighbourhood Development Officers (NDOs). You will provide leadership, coaching and professional support to the team, ensuring a consistent, high-quality approach to neighbourhood engagement, community cohesion and partnership working.

WHAT SKILLS ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Leading and managing high performing area-based teams
• Strong understanding of placed based working, community cohesion and community-led approaches
• Partnership working and collaboration
• Change and performance management

• Evidence of successfully leading teams, with experience of motivating people and creating high performing services whilst also empowering others to take decisions
• Experience of finding sustainable solutions to complex and sensitive issues through community engagement and problem solving and by working in partnership.
• Ability to performance manage multiple projects with conflicting timescales, ensuring compliance with all financial regulations.
• Understanding of empowerment techniques and the methodologies used for effective consultations
• This post is politically restricted.
• A DBS check for a regulated activity is required for this post

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it.  We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Leigh Plant, Neighbourhood Partnerships Operations Manager by telephone on 07701 049987 or by email at leigh.plant@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 31st August 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: w/c 7th September 2026

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Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service)  + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working – to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.