Space & Place Policy Officer (Job Share)

Specific Duties

1. Work with the Space & Place consortium and the wider Space & Place Policy Group to identify and disseminate policy lessons and positions to a range of audiences.
2. Engage with key stakeholders in the community and voluntary sector, statutory agencies, government departments, decision makers, policy makers and politicians to promote policy lessons from the Space & Place Programme.
3. Work with the Space & Place projects to foster interaction, collaboration and share best practice.
4. Organise events to promote policy recommendations/lessons from the Space & Place Programme.
5. Undertake research and horizon scanning for emerging issues and opportunities relevant to the programme.
6. Develop and provide responses to policy documents from other agencies and related work.
7. Work in partnership with the Space & Place Team to gather, analyse and disseminate information, case studies, research & policy papers to relevant audiences.
8. Work in partnership with the CFNI Policy Officer to contribute to wider CFNI Policy development and initiatives relevant to the Space & Place programme.
9. Work in partnership with the CFNI Communications Officers to contribute to the Space and Place website.
10. Engage with the external independent evaluation agency and contribute to the evaluation of the Space & Place Programme.
11. Represent NIEL/Space & Place at events/conferences and attend meetings as required. 
12. Report to NIEL Senior Management Team and Space & Place Team on a regular basis.
13. Undertake any other relevant ascribed Programme and NIEL duties as required.