Locations: Countywide
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent x2
Closing Date: 11:59pm Sunday 12th July 2026
Interviews: 28th July 2026 at Carlisle East Fire Station
About the role
We are looking for two Fire Protection Coordinator to join our Fire Protection Team. This role plays an important part in helping keep communities safe by supporting the delivery of the Service’s fire protection activities and ensuring the team operates effectively.
You will provide vital administrative and coordination support across key programmes, including the Risk Based Inspection Programme and Fire Interventions Programme. You’ll work closely with Fire Protection colleagues, helping to manage workloads, organise audits and ensure activities are delivered efficiently and on time.
This role combines organisation, communication and data management, working with colleagues, partners and external stakeholders to support fire safety delivery across the county.
Key Responsibilities:
• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of the Fire Protection Team, including booking audits, arranging meetings and managing inboxes
• Maintain accurate records of workloads, resources and performance to support effective planning and delivery
• Support the production and management of reports, documents and communication materials, including data input and analysis
• Assist in the administration and development of departmental systems, ensuring data accuracy and consistency
• Provide support for fire safety events and campaigns, working with internal teams and external partners
What success looks like in 12 months:
· Confidently coordinating Fire Protection activities, with audits and programmes running smoothly and on time
· Maintaining accurate, reliable data and reports that support planning and decision-making
· Building strong working relationships with colleagues and partners
· Contributing to effective campaigns, events and continuous improvements across the team
We offer:
• Flexible working across the county, including a hybrid of homeworking and office working at one of our Wholetime stations
• Free parking at our fire stations
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to gym facilities
• Enrolment in either the Fire Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on your terms and conditions) – link to the Pensions page here
• Access to Occupational Health service, including counselling support
• Close working relationship with the Firefighters Charity, including mental and physical health support
• A dedicated Wellbeing Hub – link here
• On-going personal development, including apprenticeship options and leadership courses
• Family friendly policies, including 45 weeks full pay for Family Leave
• Menopause Policy – link here (Word document)
• Support for Carers – can be found on our Wellbeing Hub
• Workplace adjustments for Neurodiverse and Disabled employees
• Staff Networks for a variety of different communities, including (but not limited to) Armed Forces, LGBTQ+, Menopause, Retirees
Our service is passionate about the communities we serve and dedicated to developing our workforce – if you’re looking to progress in an inclusive, supportive, and dynamic fire service, we would like to hear from you!
We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our communities in Cumbria. We actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people’s age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
We capture Equality data on our application forms to help us review barriers in our processes for any minority group. This is optional to complete and is securely removed and accessed only by the Resourcing team to review.