Placemaking Account Manager in Woodstock - The Guardian

Placemaking Account Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part Time, 0.6 FTE
Location: Office based, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Salary: £28,000 – £45,675 per annum, pro rata

About The Employer

Our client is a national charity that supports people in rural areas to set up and run successful businesses in community ownership. They do this to achieve their UK-wide vision for resilient, thriving and inclusive rural communities.

About Placemaking

Placemaking is a new strand of the organisation's support service which focuses on working with house builders, planners, local authorities, and the communities themselves, to actively help shape the community infrastructure and services from new developments.

Their approach prioritises early community engagement, partnership working and the creation of community-owned assets and services that can bring meaningful long-term benefits within a locality.

About the Role

The organisation is seeking a Placemaking Account Manager to support the delivery of an exciting and growing area of their work – helping shape vibrant, inclusive community infrastructure within new housing developments.

Working closely with developers, planners, local authorities and communities, you’ll help coordinate placemaking projects that put community ownership, early engagement and long-term impact at their heart. You’ll manage relationships with key partners, support inclusive community engagement, undertake early-stage research, and ensure projects are well-coordinated and delivered professionally.

This is an ideal role for someone who is organised, collaborative and proactive, with a passion for community-led development and making places work better for the people who live there.

The successful candidate should have the following knowledge, experience, skills and attributes:

• Ambitious and motivated: you take pride in delivering high quality work and are committed to making a difference.
• Creative: you enjoy problem solving and finding effective, practical ways to approach challenges.
• Collaborative: you build positive relationships and enjoy working with colleagues and partners.
• Positive and resilient: you approach challenges constructively and adapt well when plans change.
• Clear and accurate: you communicate confidently and pay attention to detail.
• Organised: you manage your time well, enjoy planning and can re prioritise when required.
• Proactive: you are comfortable taking initiative and contributing ideas, while working within a supportive team structure.

Join this employer and be part of a national charity supporting resilient, thriving and inclusive rural communities.

Closing date for applications: 5pm Friday 29 May 2026
Interview date: First stage interview to be held via video conference during week commencing Monday 8 June.

Interested?

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The employer is committed to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and their approach goes beyond ‘protected characteristics’ to thinking more broadly about inclusion. Every individual will think and feel differently and they believe that these differences should be embraced, and individual needs taken into account. Additionally, the makeup of the rural communities they work with leads to their own particular diversity and exclusion challenges and opportunities compared to urban areas. Their commitment to EDI, both internally and externally, has been tailored to the organisation and the communities they serve.

No agencies please.