Officer

Description:

Fáilte Ireland invites applications for the position of Officer, Ireland’s Ancient East. The role will report to the Manager, Ireland’s Ancient East.

At a destination/county level, we support the overarching Ireland’s Ancient East ambition as set out in the Regional Tourism Development Strategy.

The two core areas of the role are key account management of tourism businesses and destination development in partnership with key stakeholders, both within a defined county/destination geography within Ireland’s Ancient East.

Job Description

Primary Objectives/Key Responsibilities

Destination Development Responsibilities

• Build committed stakeholder and industry partnerships to guide sustainable destination development across the region.

• Work across a defined geography in Irelands Ancient East to build a committed industry and stakeholder network to guide and co-ordinate the sustainable development of the local destination and experience development plan and the wider IAE region. This includes engagement with individual industry as well as design and development of supporting activation programmes at a destination level support the destination’s development vision.

• Ensure buy-in to the Regional Tourism Development Strategy and agree annual priorities with relevant Local Authority to support this.

• Support the delivery and activation of any capital investment projects within the destination/county