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JOB PURPOSE

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new organisation in start-up mode and help shape our public relations, brand and profile-raising activity.

In this newly created role, the PR Manager will develop PR activity that connects new audiences with UNHCR’s humanitarian work for refugees and inspires them to take action through our charity’s campaigns, fundraising and events.

This will include campaigns that tap into passionate supporters of refugees, as well as finding innovative ways to educate new audiences about the refugee cause and our work, such as through business, sport, lifestyle, fashion, food, arts and culture.

This role supports issues management and during emergency appeals will help pitch for news coverage to raise awareness. The successful candidate will also help develop content, working with field colleagues, UNHCR’s London office and UNHCR head office teams, to develop storytelling for our own platforms and partnerships.

The role sits within the Communications team, which is responsible for raising awareness and public engagement, working closely with the Senior Digital Communications Officer who manages our website and social channels.  You will collaborate teams across the charity, including individual giving, partnerships and philanthropy, community fundraising, supporter care and events.

If you think you have the relevant skills and the passion to use them to support refugees, we would love to hear from you.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

United Kingdom for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s new national charity partner for the United Kingdom. We generate public awareness of the plight of refugees and raise funds to help protect them through UNHCR’s humanitarian operations across the world.

Our supporters include UK private individuals, communities, corporate partners, trusts and foundations. The funds we raise help UNHCR deliver emergency relief such as shelter, medical care and basic supplies to people fleeing conflict and persecution, as well as healthcare, education and livelihoods opportunities for those who remain displaced over the long term.

Nobody chooses to be a refugee, but we can all play a part in their protection. We want those who work with us to share our values and passion for the cause.

We strongly value diversity and recognise that it is critical to our success and the cause that we serve. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all who work with us and strongly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. 

We are also open to flexibility in many different ways, including an element of working from home and flexible hours.  Please don’t be afraid to speak to us about this at the interview stage, so we can explore what’s possible.

ROLE RESPONSIBLITIES 

Public engagement and awareness raising

• Create and deliver PR plans to publicise fundraising appeals, events and campaigns
• Secure multichannel awareness, including broadcast, social media, influencers, and print and online media
• Support the development and delivery of editorial partnerships with media and content platforms
• Proactively pitch story ideas to engage broad and special interest audiences with our humanitarian work and refugees
• Support the Director of Communications in the coordination of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador engagement and growing the charity’s influencer networks
• Establish robust KPIs to measure impact, engagement and reach of comms campaigns
• Coordinate speaking opportunities and conference research to support thought leadership and charity profile raising
• Provide press office function for reactive media enquiries
• Manage PR administration including reporting, media list management, media monitoring and budget tracking

Communications and content development

• Produce editorial content, including copy, photography and video assets to support media placements, events and corporate partnerships
• Liaise with comms colleagues in field operations and UNHCR head office to help research and acquire content to support campaigns
• Maintain information on key messages and positioning for organisation-wide use
• Write strategic communications products (including speaking points, media releases, exec briefings and annual report copy).
• Contribute articles and image research for our donor communications channels
• Engage external specialists, e.g. photographers, to help develop content
• Collaborate with fundraising teams to share communications content and coordinate with forward planning / issues
• Assist in implementation of UK for UNHCR’s Emergency Comms Plan during emergency appeals
• Supports on other projects as required

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND EXPERIENCE

Essential Experience

• Experience developing and implementing PR/communications plans
• Experience delivering campaigns that created a measurable impression, raised awareness and generated action from target audiences
• Experience working with broadcast and online media platforms and delivering coverage
• Broad communications experience needed, but must include consumer facing PR
• Experience of managing external PR agencies and freelancers (e.g. photographers)

Essential Skills/Knowledge

• Strong understanding of UK broadcast and consumer media
• Strong journalistic skills, including an understanding of what makes a good news story proofreading and editing skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Curating images and video content to accompany media pitches and support events
• Ability to present complex issues in an accessible and engaging way to different audiences across different formats
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and execute tasks independently, managing deadlines and working well under pressure
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills 
• Advanced proficiency in all Microsoft office products; ability to use databases and CRM
• Must have an interest in global humanitarian affairs
• Must be diplomatic, tactful and comfortable dealing with sensitive issues

Desirable skills/experience

• Working in a not-for-profit or advocacy organisation
• Experience with refugee issues or field work
• Experience of working within a start-up team

FINANCE OFFICER

REDBRIDGE CARERS SUPPORT SERVICE (RCSS)

Redbridge Carers Support Service (RCSS) is a leading carers organisation offering a range of innovative, holistic services to carers. We are currently seeking to appoint an accomplished, experienced Finance Officer to join our small charity. You will be working closely with our senior management team and assist in providing proactive, efficient and effective financial management of our charitable resources.

You will play a key role in ensuring internal financial systems and procedures are working efficiently, providing accurate and timely reports, as required. Working closely with senior management, the Finance Officer will take day to day responsibility for the finance function and ensure all financial controls are in place and transactions are managed in accordance with internal policies, relevant financial regulations and funders specifications and requirements.

The role will include the management of financial systems, budget monitoring, updating of records and the preparation of accounts for senior management and the RCSS Board of Trustees. The role will include overseeing compliance with authorisation procedures. You will support the work of the organisation, the Trustees, the Executive Director, the Operational Director and staff, including accounts, payroll, invoices and budgets for core work and projects and for funding bids.

RCSS has a 25-year history of providing excellent services for carers. We are a dynamic and enterprising team with a wealth of experience, skills and talent. We are offering a fantastic opportunity for someone who has a talent for finance and experience of the charity sector. We offer training and self-development opportunities to all staff and a workplace pension scheme.

This is a part time post, 18 hours per week, based in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. Salary: £16,971 p.a. pro rata  (£33,000 FTE)

Please read the Job Description/Person Specification before completing the application.

CVs will not be accepted.

Failure to address the requirements of the Person Specification may result in applications not being shortlisted.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Money Advice worker to join our new United Utilities Trust Fund supported Mental Wellbeing Money Advice Project.

Providing longer term support to clients, this targeted project will provide money advice and financial capability support to people from Halton who are experiencing mental health issues.

You should have knowledge and substantive experience of debt casework and advice giving. You should be able to demonstrate an ability to deal with a full range of complex money advice issues, including advising clients on the management of priority and non-priority debts, insolvency remedies and housing issues such as repossession and eviction.

You will have an ability to actively engage and build a rapport with harder to reach clients and understand the impact of mental health issues on people’s lives, including the impact on dealing with money issues.

Location: Citizens Advice Halton – Widnes and Runcorn (the role will include outreach and home visits, and regular home based working)

Hours: 35 hours per week (Full time)

Leave: 25 days holiday per annum + bank holidays

Closing date: Wednesday 26th August – 12 noon

Interview date: Within 2 weeks of closing date

Please note interviews will likely be conducted on a video conferencing platform       

How to apply: Information pack and application form are available to be downloaded from our website.

We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.  We encourage and welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates from all backgrounds and sections of the community.

Citizens Advice Halton are seeking to recruit a Debt Caseworker to join their team working from our offices in Halton (Runcorn and Widnes).

To be appointed as a debt caseworker, you should have knowledge and substantive experience of debt casework and advice giving. You should have experience of helping clients manage their debt in a legal advice or financial services sector setting.

To be appointed as a trainee debt caseworker, you should have knowledge of issues affecting members of the public experiencing money problems. You should have experience supporting advice giving in an advice service or customer facing setting.

You must demonstrate that you will be able to deal with a full range of complex debt cases, including advising clients on the management of priority and non-priority debts, insolvency remedies and housing issues such as repossession and eviction, in line with Money and Pensions Service contractual requirements and quality standards.

This post is open to applicants entering at trainee level. Please see the job pack for the post for further information.

Location: Citizens Advice Halton – Widnes and Runcorn (and regular home based working).

Hours: 35 hours per week (Full time)

Leave: 25 days holiday per annum + bank holidays

Closing date: Wednesday 26th August – 12 noon

Interview date: Within 2 weeks of closing date.

How to apply: Information pack and application form are available to be downloaded from our website.

We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.  We encourage and welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates from all backgrounds and sections of the community.

We are looking for someone to work with the National Parent Support Team based in our office in Leeds to act as an independent source of support and contact for parents whose children are being sexually exploited by perpetrators external to the family, deliver intensive telephone casework support, link parents to the online Parent Forum, and attend occasional parent network events.

You will have good active listening skills, experience of working with CSE, the ability to empathise and engage with affected parents and respect their vital role in safeguarding their child.  You will be able to liaise and develop a good rapport with partner agencies, and offer advice on good practice relating to working in partnership with affected parents.  You will maintain your own professional practice and ensure ongoing development through use of supervision and training.  You will adhere to Pace ethos and policies including equal opportunities and diversity. 

National Parent Support Team is funded by the Leathersellers’ Company Charitable Fund, Tudor Trust and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 13th September 2020

Interviews: Tues 29th September 2020 

Interviews will be held in the Leeds head office.

To apply either download an application form here or, visit our jobs page at:

 www.paceuk.info/about-pace/vacancies

This is a fantastic role for a collaborative leader with finance qualifications and experience managing office services seeking a senior role and able to offer both strategic and operational strengths.

The CFOO role is a new part-time role, created as part of our restructure of our finance and office services team. The role combines strategic thinking and operational activity, including management of all support services; premises, finance, policy, IT and HR.  The post holder will work with the CEO to continuously improve the organisational infrastructure and ensure robust governance, risk management, compliance and long-term financial planning. In particular, the role will focus on improving and standardising service levels to budget holders, the CEO and Trustees

You will be comfortable working across a number of work-streams, willing to get up to speed quickly and manage a busy workload where necessary. You will be an energised and positive team player who is able to engage and collaborate with others, to work to specific goals to ‘get things done’, as well as to design and deliver longer-term projects. You will relish the opportunity to drive best practice across corporate services, bringing your passion modernising processes and continuous improvement. This role will work best for someone who is as motivated thinking strategically as delivering operationally.

HI UK is committed to diversity and inclusion, and for this role, is particularly interested in candidates with disabilities and/or from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds.  

Business Development Officer

Location: Flexible

Job ID: 2020-2356 

Type of Contract: Permanent

Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 33 to 36 (£31150.00 - £33568.73)

Overview

Change Grow Live are looking for Business Development Officers to join our national Business Development Team

Responsibilities

We want excellent writers who share our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.

Change Grow Live is one of the UK’s largest charities. We provide a range of services including community and prison substance misuse, criminal justice, children and young people’s and housing/homelessness.

Joining us means being part of a well-established and successful team, and the chance to develop your skills, knowledge and experience whilst working with great people from across our organisation.

Last year we won tenders with an annual value of almost £50 million but what this really means to us is that we can provide more support to more people across the UK.

Working as part of Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team you will play a key role in the development and writing of tenders and proposals for a variety of health and social care services.

You will engage with people and teams across our organisation, from Consultant Psychiatrists and Nurses to Data Analysts and Web Developers, to produce high quality written tenders and proposals that clearly demonstrate the positive impact that our services have on people’s lives.

You will support our successful and growing Business Development Team to improve the quality of our work and develop our team culture, by thinking creatively, sharing your own knowledge and experiences, and challenging existing ways of working.

Ultimately you will contribute to the design, development and delivery of our services and help us to deliver on our organisational aims, strategy and values.

This role offers a great opportunity to learn and develop while using your established skills, and you’ll be encouraged to take on more responsibility as you progress.

Check out the job description for more information, and you can call to discuss this role further.

About you

You’ll be a confident and highly competent communicator with excellent writing skills and an exceptional eye for detail.

You’ll have proven experience of writing tenders, proposals or grant applications, or writing in other professional or academic environments, for instance journalism, research or marketing.

You’ll have good IT and research skills and be able to analyse data and interpret evidence.

You’ll be proactive and creative, and happy to give and receive challenging feedback.

You’ll share our passion for our values and mission, and you’ll be ready to work hard to achieve these.

Above all, you’ll want to use your skills and experience to develop and write winning tenders for services that help people to make positive changes in their lives.

Why work for Change Grow Live

We’ll support you to develop and grow. You’ll be joining a diverse team which welcomes new ideas and ways of working, and you’ll receive structured support, training and coaching to help you to progress in your career.

Joining Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team means you’ll benefit from a positive, supportive and flexible working environment which includes:

• Regional offices across the UK, including London, Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds;
• The option to work from home;
• Flexible hours and working patterns including compressed hours and job share options.

We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and inclusive workplace and this is evidenced through our 2019 Stonewall Top 100 Employers Award and Investors in People Silver Award.

For further infomration, and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing Date: 23/8/2020

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through, please contact us.

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Scheme check at a basic level. 

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible

Senior Asset Maintenance Surveyor North or South of London

Your new company
I am representing one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. They build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 135,000 customers nationwide.

Your new role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Surveyor to join our team in London on a permanent basis. We have stock in both the North and South of London, the successful Senior Surveyor will be required to look after either the North or the South patch depending on where you're home base is.

What you'll need to succeed
As a Senior Surveyor you'll be responsible for delivering planned investment through their framework contractors who cover the London Region. The investment is varied, covering a range of work types including mechanical and electrical work, fire alarms, lift replacements and fire safety works alongside their usual investment for kitchens, bathrooms, roofs and other key components.

You'll not only be an experienced Senior Surveyor, but you'll also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done. You'll also be able to demonstrate:

You'll not only be an experienced Senior Surveyor, but you'll also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done. You'll also be able to demonstrate:

*Excellent knowledge of building construction
*Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, building regulation, standards and ability to manage Health & Safety during a project.
*Ability to survey and specify required works, or where necessary manage expert external consultants.
*Ability to diagnose and specify remedies to building defects.
*Manage contractor's performance delivering building works at a project level including H&S, quality, value, progress and KPIs.
*Understanding of maintenance services within social housing sector (responsive, empty homes, planned, cyclical and compliance).
*Excellent standards of customer care and the ability to deliver accurate and clear communications in writing, face to face or by telephone.
*Good understanding of the Leasehold Process.
*Good IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office, housing and property management systems.
*Successful track record of delivering building surveying services or M&E projects, and management of substantial work programmes in a similar environment.
*Experience of preparing and issuing performance reports

Essential Qualifications:
*RICS or CIOB

What you'll get in return

*25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 4 partnership days
*Medical expenses cover
*Employee assistance programme
*Cycle to work scheme
*Benefits Portal - Everyone Lifestyle Benefits
*Eye test vouchers
*Aspire - £100 allowance per employee each financial year
*Professional qualification support
*Professional subscriptions
*Purchase additional leave
*Salary Sacrifice - Deduction of various benefits from 'gross' salary, before tax and NI deducted
*E-learning courses
*Thank you award - by nomination

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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The Fairtrade Foundation’s vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential. This is a pivotal time to be joining the Foundation as we continue to push for even greater impact bringing the benefits of trade for marginalised farmers and workers.

We are recruiting for a Partnerships Manager to lead on the relationship management of some of our key commercial partners. This is a crucial role as building successful partnerships with commercial organisations is an essential part of achieving our goal.

The main focus of the role will be to build relationships with current Fairtrade partners and to seek out prospective new partnership with the fundamental aim of growing the market. You will need to maximise the marketing and communication of Fairtrade values through brand relationships and ensure Fairtrade’s position as a leader in sustainability is demonstrated through our commercial partnerships.

You’ll need to be able to work autonomously and flexibly, with demonstrable success in independently managing key accounts in the FMCG, OOH or related sector. You will also have a proven history of consistently meeting challenging targets and proven selling, influencing and negotiation skills.

Fairtrade is a movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade deliver for farmers and workers. Fairtrade is a global movement with a strong and active presence in the UK, represented by the Fairtrade Foundation.

The international Fairtrade system (of which the Fairtrade Foundation is a member) works on behalf of farmers and workers to drive sustainable livelihoods, empower producers and workers, and make trade fair.

The Fairtrade Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community

Closing date: 19 August 2020 10am

Interviews: wc 24 August 2020 or 31 August 2020

You will be passionate and experienced in working with disadvantaged and vulnerable girls (11-19 year olds). Love4Life’s specialism is helping teenage girls to build healthy self-esteem and body image as well as having a strong focus on quality relationships and sex education. 

Summary

The role includes a wide range of organisational and secretarial tasks that will allow the Diocesan Secretary, who works as the operational cheif exectuive of the Diocese of Southwark, to maximize the use of her time. The PA will work collaboratively as part of a team who support the committee structure of the diocese, and the broader administrative support within the secretariat. Confidence and competence in the use of IT will be really important in this role, to manage corrresponce, track actions, manage data and to produce high quality presentations and documents.

Introduction

We are seeking an experienced PA who thrives in a changing and dynamic enironment, to support the Diocesean Secretary, who leads the operational, financial and governance arrangements for the Diocese, one of the largest dioceses within the Church of England.

This is an exciting, busy and wide-ranging role, providing the opportunity to use excellent PA skills, working with a wide range of colleagues, including those at a senior level within the Diocese.

Main Responsibilities

• The management of the Diocesan Secretary's diary.
• To provide a professional, discreet, courteous, and efficient first point of contact to Secretariat for all communications with the Diocesan Secretary.
• To maintain complete confidentiality and integrity always.
• Building key relationships with other members of the Secretariat, PAs to the Bishops and Archdeacons, senior trustees, and other colleagues.
• To arrange meetings with a wide range of internal and external contacts,
• Development and maintenance of Word and/or Excel meeting notes and actions resulting from meetings and following these up for the Diocesan Secretary.
• To schedule follow-up meetings and tracking actions for follow-up.
• Responding to correspondence and enquiries, including drafting letters.
• Managing invoices and legal documents sent to the Diocesan Secretary for signature
• Responding to emails where appropriate, as delegated by the Diocesan Secretary and ensuring deadlines for responses are met.
• Managing calls to the Diocesan Secretary and responding to phone calls.
• Management of files and papers; with the aim of continuing to move to a paperless office.
• Developing easily accessible folders for electronic files.
• Managing a bring forward system, ideally electronically, so documents are available for the Diocesan Secretary at the appropriate time for meetings.
• Provide general secretarial support to the Diocesan Secretary, including formatting and proof reading of reports, use of Excel to support monitoring activity.
• Preparing presentations using PowerPoint.
• To use the data sources available to provide summaries of management, financial and other information when required.

Ideal Candidate

You should have a high standard of education, normally to graduate level or equivalent, with experience in a similar or related role, working for someone at a senior level in an organisation.

A high degree of planning and organising, with attention to detail will be really important, as will experience of a busy office with competing tasks, and a collaborative 'can do' approach, with the ability to work with a wide range of colleagues internally and externally.

You should be a confident user of IT, with a keen interest in finding ways of using electronic means to improve efficiecy and effectiveness. You should particularly have:

• Advanced word-processing skills (Microsoft Word).
• Highly competent Excel skills with experience working with and creating spreadsheets.
• Experience with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and OneNote experience,
• Experience of complex diary management
• Excellent note-taking skills and ability to produce notes and summaries from meetings.
• Proactive curiosity - interest in gaining information from databases and summarise in simple formats.
• A good knowledge of PowerPoint with the ability to develop presentations.

Equally important are the interpersonal and communication skills that will enable you to deal courteously and confidentially with all who contact the Diocesan Secretary's office including:

• A warm and friendly personality
• Good humour, tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity.
• Working in a team environment, but being able to acting on your own initiative as the need arises.

An interest and willingness to learn about and work within the environment of the Church of England, will be important but this is an opportunity to develop knowledge of the workings of an often complex organisation.

You should be in sympathy with the aims and objectives of the Christian Church and have due regard for the traditions of the Church of England

Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation which provides high quality person-centred social care services for adults with learning disabilities, mental health needs and other support needs. We are very excited to be expanding our service provision in Stockport, and are currently recruiting within our established supported living services across the area.

We are looking for enthusiastic, resourceful and energetic individuals who are well motivated, experienced and keen to join our friendly team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a new service where you will be able to contribute to the shaping of a brand new team. You will provide person-centred support to tenants to take part in all aspects of everyday life and to engage and participate with their local communities.

We offer full-time positions and you will be required to work in a flexible manner on rota which includes evenings, weekends and sleep-ins. We also offer part-time positions which are ideal for fitting around personal commitments, study or caring responsibilities. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development, we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

Full or part time hours are available. Full time: 37.5 hours per week. Contracts of up to 48 hours per week are also available. Part time: to be agreed subject to a minimum of 15 hours per week. To be worked flexibly on a rota which will include evenings, weekends and public holidays according to the needs of the service.

Regenerate is looking to recruit a highly motivated person to lead its Get Active programme.
Regenerate is a youth charity established to work with young people who live on housing estates in Roehampton and Putney and surrounding areas. Regenerate inspires and supports young people by building strong, lasting relationships and creating life changing opportunities; helping them grow in confidence, make the best of their lives and impact the world for good. Its vision is to create opportunities for young people to thrive. Regenerate actively encourages applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups.
 

Main Responsibilities: 

1. To lead and manage Youth Work sessions and trips at Regenerate
2. To help strengthen and develop Regenerate’s Youth Work practice
3. To ensure all Regenerate procedures are carried out with excellence

Starting date with be early September. Please see the job and person specification for more information on the role.

Position: Commercial Manager
Location: Seven Sisters Country Park, East Sussex
Closing Date: 31 August 2020
Interview Date: 15 September 2020
Salary: £46,245 to £49,397
Hours: 37 hours per week
Type of post: Permanent

The South Downs National Park Authority are about to embark on an exciting new challenge! Having taken ownership of an iconic area of the English landscape located on the eastern edge of the park, we will now manage the Seven Sisters Country Park. Our aspiration is to develop the Country Park as a “must see” tourist destination delivering the best possible visitor experience supported by a world-class visitor centre.

We are aiming high to ensure all visitors to Seven Sisters have the best possible experience which exceeds their expectations. We will achieve this by offering a variety of visitor options including providing information and interpretation areas, education opportunities, accommodation – cottages and camping, various food options and the ultimate option of being outside and enjoying all the natural environment has to offer.

We are already established as a forward-thinking and ambitious organisation with our purposes and duty focused on environmental issues. We are actively working to ensure the natural environment, its species and habitats are protected and enhanced and the impacts of climate change are reduced. This project will fully encompass those principles and ultimately work to a carbon neutral goal.

These aims are not attainable overnight and to achieve our vision, initially for the Country Park but with the aspiration for more marketable growth, the successful candidate must bring a high level of commercial acumen to lead the strategic direction in achieving our goals. A clear understanding and commitment to match commercialism with the protection and enhancement of the landscape is also a key part of this role.

We are looking for a strong, commercially aware, people-focused manager with adept emotional intelligence, communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills, as well as an agile, flexible and can-do approach. Good project management and change management skills are important as is the ability to be sensitive yet innovative in terms of income generation. You will also need to be able to work sensitively and collaboratively with all our stakeholders, community groups and the Trading Company Board.

We encourage and support professional development and offer a generous benefits package to support your work life balance.

To apply: Please complete the application and monitoring form. All applications must be submitted on the SDNPA application form (CVs will not be considered) & must reach us by 11.30pm 31 August 2020.

SDNPA Benefits –
- Local government pension scheme
- Healthcare - includes cash plan, counselling and wellbeing discounts
- 27 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Professional development
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car sharing
- Use of pool cars
- Regular staff events / activities, which support the SDNPA’s Purposes and Duty