Midlands Ireland Just Transition Officer

September 12, 2024

OTHER

Administrative, Culture and Recreation, General Services
Just Transition Officer
€49,706 - €59,456 LSI 2

Advertised Date: 02 Sep 2024

Annual Salary
Laois
Fixed Term Contract

Closing Date: 18 Sep 2024, 12:00 PM

Key responsibilities of the Just Transition Officers would include, but are not limited to:

Through consultation with impacted communities, identify priorities for intervention at community level.
Build belief, confidence and ambition for impacted communities of the Midlands;
Develop capacity in affected communities, empowering residents to play an active role as engaged agents of transition

Identify champions and ambassadors within communities, businesses, local authorities and state agencies which can sustain the project(s) momentum over the longer term;
Engage with multiple stakeholders to support a sense of ownership and responsibility among key community leaders and enterprise that can endure over the longer term.
Provide a liaison between local authority, enterprise, communities and the EU JTF scheme and other positions supported under the REP EU JTF project;
Provision of backstopping services to maximise the potential of each EU JTF funded project that has received funding at local and community level in the county in which they are based;
Seek to identify and catalyse synergies amongst EU JTF supported projects;
Provide regular updates on the delivery of county based projects to the Local Authority members, Strategic Policy Committees and the Local Community Development Company
Promote funding opportunities and provide support to communities and enterprise with applications for opportunities presented by the green and digital transitions.
Manage the co-ordination of quarterly meetings of the Midlands Regional Transition Team Steering Committee and the Thematic Working Groups.