This is an opportunity to take a leading role in helping to reduce underage drinking and related harms to communities across the North East of England. Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is looking to engage the services of a results-oriented consultant with great people skills to setup CAP projects in high harm areas of the North East of England.  

The successful applicant will have a track record of building effective partnerships, the people and communication skills to involve and engage a wide range of local stakeholders and the leadership and project management skills to support projects through each phase of their lifecycle including baseline evaluation, action plan delivery, post-intervention, evaluation and maintenance/sustainment. After a short familiarisation period, the successful applicant will be expected to oversee fast-track development of new CAPs in priority areas and take responsibility for all aspects of their management with minimal supervision.

A key requisite of the role will be the ability to forge effective public/private sector partnerships between statutory agencies, schools, youth charities and retailers following the CAP model and evaluation framework. The successful applicant may come from a police, public health, education, local authority or other relevant background.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify opportunities for new CAPs and facilitate set up of new CAPs in priority areas
• Ensure that all new CAP projects carry out appropriate and timely interventions and evaluate all activity in line with the CAP evaluation toolkit – including a baseline and post intervention evaluation

Specific duties to include the following:

• Represent CAP at all operational meetings
• Ensure that Retail of Alcohol Standards Group (RASG) member companies play a full delivery role in each CAP where they operate as businesses.
• Liaise as appropriate with strategic leads within local enforcement authorities and other partner organisations to initiate and complete agreed actions
• Encourage all projects to achieve positive local media coverage including via social media and regional news/broadcast media
• Ensure that all projects carry out as a minimum a baseline (pre-CAP) evaluation and post intervention evaluation following the CAP evaluation framework and project management survey tools
• Identify opportunities for added value via employee volunteering and support projects to apply for local sources of funding
• Produce a monthly progress report on all schemes and pipeline activities
• Attend and participate in regular CAP update meetings by teams (x12 pa)
• Assist with event planning and profile-raising opportunities such as MP visits to CAP projects

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Skills, attributes and experiences

• Key to the role will be the ability to facilitate effective and dynamic partnerships involving key partners from any/all of the following sectors: local authorities, education, child protection, social services, public health, police, retailers and licensing
• Excellent organisational and sound project management skills
• Great people skills with the ability to build consensus and motivate partners to play a role in timely delivery of an agreed action plan
• Act as an ambassador for CAP at meetings and events including parliamentary events
• Excellent presentation and all-round communication skills
• Capable administrator with the ability to keep accurate records including data collection around outputs and impact evaluation

Remuneration: Consultancy fee rate of £320 per day depending on experience. Work will depend on ability to generate interest in setting up new CAPs but we anticipate as a guideline engaging up to 3 days per week of consultancy. All reasonable and agreed travel expenses will be paid in line with invoice arrangements.

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Deadline for applications: 25 September 2025.

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Instructions on how to apply

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