Love to Ride is looking for a friendly, proactive Community and Business Engagement Manager to help deliver an exciting cycling encouragement campaign in Venice starting straight away. Fluency in both Italian and English is essential, as the role involves engaging with local communities and coordinating with an international team. About the Project: The Venice campaign will run from June to December 2025, featuring two key seasonal challenges — Biketober and Winter Wheelers — designed to get more people riding bikes for everyday trips. The program is free to participate in, and your job will be to help drive engagement, partnerships, and local awareness. About Love to Ride: Love to Ride is the online platform that helps cities and companies get more people riding bikes. We work globally to encourage healthier, more sustainable travel choices and help individuals experience the many personal and community benefits of cycling. Requirements: Roles and Responsibilities: You’ll lead outreach and engagement efforts across Venice and Mestre, helping local workplaces, organizations, and individuals take part in the campaign. Tasks include: - Contact and engage local partner organizations and encourage them to promote the program externally to their local networks e.g. Chambers of Commerce, business associations, town and city governments bicycle clubs, bike shops - Identify suitable ‘Champions’ within participating organizations, and develop effective working relations with them to provide on-going support so that they can promote Love to Ride internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the program. - Provide excellent customer service to all participants and workplace Champions. - Source and manage locally sponsored incentives and prizes. - Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the program, e.g. collection of case studies. - Act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners, developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports. - Carry out any other duties defined by the Project Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the program. - Work alongside the client team to identify priority areas and deliver a highly effective program of activity Requirements: - Experience in outreach and community engagement - Sales and / or promotions background - Strong communications background, or skills including experience in: verbal and written presentations; short format copywriting; chairing meetings and working groups - Experience in, or relationships with the local business community - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - Strong organizational skills - Dedicated ‘make it happen’ attitude. - Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels - Ability to work independently - Friendly, collaborative, and fun - Knowledge and ability to ride a bike safely - A passion for promoting a program that benefits people, our communities & our planet Benefits Contract type: Freelance, fixed-term Duration:June-December 2025 Estimated input:~20 hours/week average, flexible Pay: €140-€200 per day plus a bonus based on achieving participation targets