Outreach and Community Engagement Manager

2 days ago

Sunshine Coast, Australia Love to Ride Full time

We are looking for someone who can do outreach and community engagement remotely with businesses, project stakeholders, and program participants across the Sunshine Coast.

The program is a fun biking encouragement program. The aim is to engage businesses, organisations, existing riders and new riders and introduce more people to the benefits of riding a bicycle. The program is free for businesses and people to take part in. Your job is to do outreach to engage and encourage people and businesses to take part. This is a remote position.

**Love to Ride**

Love to Ride is the online platform that gets more people riding bikes. We make it easy and fun to encourage our friends and co-workers to ride.

We work with cities, companies and people all over the world to encourage more people to enjoy the benefits of riding a bike.

**We believe**

We believe that life is much better when we feel happy, healthy, energised and connected to the people and places around us. We believe riding a bike has so many benefits to us individually, to our communities and our world.

**Roles and Responsibilities**

The primary roles and responsibilities of the role are to:

- Contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the program externally to their local networks, e.g. Chambers of Commerce, bicycle clubs, bike shops,
- Identify suitable ‘Champions’ within participating organisations, develop effective working relations with them and provide on-going support so that they can promote Love to Ride internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the program.
- Provide excellent customer service to all participants and workplace Champions.
- Source and manage locally sponsored incentives and prizes.
- Act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners, developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports.
- Carry out any other duties defined by the Senior Project Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the program.
- Work alongside the client teams to deliver a highly effective program of activity
- Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the program, e.g. collection of case studies.

**Requirements**:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong sales and presentation skills.
- Friendly, collaborative, and fun.
- Experience in doing outreach and community engagement.
- Strong organisational skills, with a target-orientated approach.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with people in a wide range of workplace settings, from large public services and corporates to SMEs and local businesses and communities and other local groups.
- Dedicated ‘make it happen’ attitude.
- Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels.
- Ability to work independently.
- Knowledge and ability to ride a bike safely.

A passion for promoting a program that benefits people, our communities & our planet.

Must be able to start immediately

**Benefits**

This position is a fixed term contract for an independent contractor working over a 4 month period starting in July 2024 at a rate of $40 -$45 an hour depending on experience plus a performance-based bonus. The contract involves a minimum of at least 40 days at 1-2 days a week.

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