Closing date: 31 August 2026
Improvement Officer
Salary/Grade: Grade 6
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: The Arc, High St, Clowne, S43 4JY
Closing Date: 31 August 2026
Interview Date: 7 September 2026
Bolsover District Council is a dynamic and ambitious organisation that takes pride in delivering excellent services to our community whilst driving economic growth and environmental sustainability for the District.
The Information & Engagement Team is a small team consisting of three officers. We are now looking for a fourth addition to strengthen the team’s resilience across functions. This fourth team member will address the limitations of the existing three-person structure, and the need for business continuity while attracting a high-calibre candidate who’ll deliver immediate value.
The team has two distinct areas:
- Improvement/Engagement: Consultations, Equalities monitoring and reporting, Policy Development, Youth Council
- Information Governance: Freedom of Information, Environmental Information Regulation and UK GDPR/Data Protection.
The purpose of this role is to support and strengthen resilience across functions where necessary by providing flexible, high-quality operational and strategic support across Consultations, Engagement initiatives, corporate Equality provision, supporting Policy Development, Youth Council, Corporate Training and supporting Information Governance tasks (when applicable).
The successful candidate will report to the team’s Information & Engagement Manager and provide support in the delivery of complex, high profile corporate projects.
Duties will include providing internal advice and guidance, facilitating the Internal Satisfaction programme, designing questionnaires from start to finish, qualitiative and quantative data analysis and producing comprehsensive, insightful reports/infographics and providing cover when team members are on annual leave. The post-holder will manage the Council’s Citizens’ Panel, Equality Panel and Youth Council and work with other departments/colleagues to promote and support effective community engagement and consultation work.
To be successful you will need:
- Demostrable ability to process and present complex information in an accurate format to a range of different audiences from the general public to internal officers to Elected Members
- Proven experience of working in consultation/engagement in Local Government or similar
- Proven experience of working within the parameters of the Equalities Act 2010 (includes reviewing Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs))
- Proven experience of using software to undertake survey design, and statistical analysis (ideally Snap Software)
- Proven knowledge of working as part of an Information Governance framework (preferably Local Government)
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication to engage with officers, members and external bodies
- Excellent IT skills (i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, web applications)
- A strong, confident customer focus and a commitment to service improvements through engagement and the wider work of the team.
- To complete a test as part of the application process.
The post is based at the Arc, High St, Clowne, however it is suited to agile working e.g. home or home/office subject to operational requirements. For a full list of job details and requirements please view the Job Description and Person Specification.
Why work for us?
Bolsover District Council is a great place to work and if you join our team, you will become part of a talented, committed and dedicated workforce. If you are keen to make a difference to people’s lives and develop your skills and experience, we would like to hear from you.
We offer a competitive salary, Local Government Pension Scheme, generous annual leave entitlement and excellent work/life balance initiatives.
Apply today!
If you are interested in this post, please apply using the online application on our dedicated webpage on Derbyshire Jobs.
Please read the Guidance Notes provided before completing any application and please note that CV’s will not be accepted.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Further information
If you have any questions about the post, please email the Council’s Information & Engagement Manager: Consultations@bolsover.gov.uk.
If you have not received any communication within four weeks of the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion and we thank you for your interest in the job role.
