Tourism Assistant Project Officer

Starting salary £25,238 per annum

Based at Penstock Hall Farm

37 hours per week

Fixed Term Full Time until 31 March 2023

EXPERIENCE is an exciting €23 million tourism project funded by the Interreg V Channel England France Programme European Regional Development Fund. Kent County Council is one of 14 partners in France and England. The project will work with businesses and partners to develop new off-season tourism products that engage visitors in the landscape in a way that supports and enhances that landscape. EXPERIENCE will promote new experiential tourism products through tourism fairs, media and communication campaigns.

You will work in a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team of five as part of the wider Kent Downs AONB Unit to ensure the successful integrated delivery of the EXPERIENCE project. You will assist the Project Manager and project team to deliver and coordinate the EXPERIENCE project. This is an exciting and varied role and you will be involved in project development, monitoring, communication, marketing, evaluation and reporting.

You will have specific responsibility for project reporting and claims and a number of discrete tourism projects. You will also be responsible for assisting deliver partners to adhere to EU funding requirements. You will assist the Project Manager with project evaluation. You will work closely with the communications and business roles to assist in the development and communication of new tourism product. You will also assist the Project Manager with the delivery of other European funded projects such as the Green Pilgrimage Project which promotes economic growth via long distance walking trails.

If you are an experienced project manager and are passionate about rural active tourism, then you may be the person to fill this pivotal role in our multi-disciplinary team.

Based in a beautiful converted barn in the heart of the Kent Downs in East Kent, the role will involve frequent travel in the project pilot regions which are Brittany, Pas-de-Calais, and Compiegne in France and Norfolk, Kent, and Cornwall in the UK.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a motivated and creative candidate to progress a career project management and tourism by being part of this flagship project in Kent.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

To apply please visit www.kent.gov.uk/jobs to complete an online application form.

The vacancy reference number is 20001119. Should you require any further information, please contact Catherine Bradley on 01303 815170. The closing date is Midnight on 8th April 2020. Interviews will be held 11th and 12th May 2020.

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