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Community development officer

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Local community development officer Outreach support worker Social 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.

Tasks

(a) Liaising and consulting with programme administrators and other interested parties to identify policy needs;
(b) Reviewing existing policies and legislation to identify anomalies and out-of-date provisions;
(c) Researching social, economic and industrial trends, and client expectations of programmes and services provided;
(d) Formulating and analysing policy options, preparing briefing papers and recommendations for policy changes, and advising on preferred options;
(e) Assessing impacts, financial implications, interactions with other programmes and political and administrative feasibility of policies;
(f) Conducting threat and risk assessments and developing responses;
(g) Reviewing operations and programmes to ensure consistency with policies of the organization.

Knowledge

  • Management and administration
  • Law
  • Finance, banking and insurance
  • Political sciences and civics
  • Earth sciences

Digital competencies

  • Developing professional relationships or networks
  • Managing budgets or finances
  • Conducting academic or market research
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Management skills

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Supporting others
  • Communicating
  • Dealing with problems

Professional groups of the occupation

Managers

Production and specialized services managers

Professional services managers

Professional services managers not elsewhere classified

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Professional services managers not elsewhere classified

1.164

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

51,87%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-10,16% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

74,82%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

13,04%

Part-time contracts

1,08% Turnover index

277

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

17%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Production and specialized services managers

65%

35%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Production and specialized services managers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Professional services managers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Professional services managers not elsewhere classified

No experience
9%
Less than 1 year
24%
Between 1 and 2 years
15%
Between 2 and 4 years
31%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
16%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
30%
Administrative and support service activities
22%
Information and communication
10%
Manufacturing
8%
Education
6%
Others
24%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.