Profession community development officer
Community development officers develop plans to improve quality of life in local communities. They investigate and assess the community's issues and needs, manage resources, and develop implementation strategies. They communicate with the community for investigation purposes, and to inform the community on development plans.
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Personality Type
Knowledge
- Government policy implementation
The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration.
- Budgetary principles
Principles of estimating and planning of forecasts for business activity, compile regular budget and reports.
Skills
- Analyse community needs
Identify and respond to specific social problems in a community, delineating the extent of the problem and outline the level of resources required to address it and identifying the existing community assets and resources that are available to address the problem.
- Perform resource planning
Estimate the expected input in terms of time, human and financial resources necessary to achieve the project objectives.
- Liaise with local authorities
Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities.
- Work within communities
Establish social projects aimed at community development and active citizen participation.
- Ensure information transparency
Ensure that required or requested information is provided clearly and completely, in a manner which does not explicitly withhold information, to the public or requesting parties.
- Build community relations
Establish affectionate and long-lasting relationships with local communities, e.g. by organising special programms for kindergarden, schools and for dissabled and older people, raising awareness and receiving community appreciation in return.
- Conduct public presentations
Speak in public and interact with those present. Prepare notices, plans, charts, and other information to support the presentation.
- Provide improvement strategies
Identify root causes of problems and submit proposals for effective and long-term solutions.
- Maintain relations with local representatives
Maintain good relations with representatives of the local scientific, economic and civil society.
- Carry out strategic research
Research long term possibilities for improvements and plan steps to achieve them.