The Board of Louth Local Development invites applications from suitably qualified persons for the following post.

Community Connection Link Worker

Our Mission: Louth Local Development will promote, assist and engage in social development and enterprise development to facilitate rural and urban regeneration and community development designed to benefit and promote the welfare of local communities to deal with the causes and consequences of social and economic disadvantage or poverty. Louth Local Development CLG is an equal opportunities employer.

Title: Community Connection Link Worker
Status: 18 Months Fixed Term Contract
Reporting to: Deputy Social Inclusion Manager
Location: Drogheda and Dundalk
Salary: €43,455
Hours: Full-time post 35 hours per week
Note: This role is not open to job share

The Role:

The Community Connection Project (CCP) is a community development and inclusion approach working with the local community to assist them in developing constructive responses to the integration of International Protection Applicants (IPAs) in their local area.
The Community Link Worker will engage and work with local communities across County Louth, helping build community resilience against misinformation and prejudice by working with the local community before, during and after the arrival of IPAs and where IPA Centres are already in use.
The Community Link Worker will work with communities, in accordance with community development practice, to understand the facts and realities of the International Protection System and the challenges faced by people seeking asylum, in the context of communities with their own needs and challenges.

The Person:

The Community Connection Link Worker will work as part of the Social Inclusion Team in supporting and facilitating the implementation of Louth Local Development strategic plan, with a particular focus on our Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme.

The candidate will have experience in project delivery, have an ability to engage and work with a range of stakeholders and hold excellent ICT, communication and report writing skills.

Please see Job Description attached below.

Application Process

• Applications must be made by way of the screening form click on this link: Community Connector Link Worker Screening Form
• Also submit CV and cover letter sonya.hyland@lldc.ie
• Closing date for receipt of applications on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 @ 12noon
• No late applications will be accepted
• Interviews will be held on Monday 14th of April 2025 in our Haymarket office in Drogheda
• You will be advised of the outcome of your application in writing
• Louth Local Development CLG is an equal opportunities employer

Note to interested applicants:

• Louth Local Development use a competency base assessment system and a ranking and or short-listing exercise may be carried out on the basis of information supplied in your application form. The criteria for ranking and or short listing are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and skills, competencies and/or knowledge section of this job specification. Therefore, it is very important that you think about your experience in light of those requirements.
• Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process.