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Roles and Responsibilities
Role summary:
To work with Compact Lead Officers to ensure that the Compact makes a real difference to public sector and third sector relationships by making the Compact known within their area of work.
Main Tasks:
1. Promote the Hackney Compact by:
- Being aware of the Hackney Compact, its codes, principles and commitments
- Making the Compact, known, understood and used across departments
- Being an initial point of contact for advice and support for colleagues and partners on Compact implementation and compliance
2. Assist in Compact implementation by:
- Reporting on good practice and identifying lessons to inform the work of the Compact Implementation Group
- Communicating the relevance of the Hackney Compact, its codes and principles to colleagues and partners.
- Assist Compact Lead Officers in ensuring that policies and procedures adhere to Compact principles.
- Supporting the annual Compact review process as key contact person for area of work
Three existing Compact champions give their view of the role below. If you are thinking or becoming a champion they can also offer advice and can be contacted using the details below.
 | Jake Ferguson - Chief Officer, Hackney Community Voluntary Services The COMPACT does not sit on the shelf but is being actively used across a number of different areas – funding, volunteering and premises. It’s a pleasure being a champion for the COMPACT because it’s proving an extremely effective tool for the sector and our public sector partners. |
 | Mary Cannon - Chair, Community Empowerment Network The Hackney Compact sets out statutory and voluntary sector contributions, roles and responsibilities very clearly. Organisations or groups signing up to the Compact, and individuals being Compact Champions will help to ensure that the principles set out in the Compact are publicised and used. We can all play our part in the work of the Compact, so that together we ensure that the lives of Hackney people are improved |
 | Bisi Ojuri - Managing Director, Volunteer Centre Hackney “Sign up to the Compact and you will be signing up to an active document that will make a difference to the relationship between the voluntary and community sector (VCS) and the public sector. Already, we’ve seen the public sector begin to recognise the value of volunteering through the introduction of the Hackney volunteering strategy and Homerton Hospital’s volunteering programme. With more organisations signing up, the Compact will become borough-wide and not just recognised by a few organisations.” |
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