Benefits to you:
- Refer a friend scheme
- Employer pension contribution
- Health Cash plan
- 25 days holiday FTE, increasing with length of service up to a maximum of 30 days
- Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 10 days per annum)
- Celebration Leave
- Employee Assistance Program with Health Assured
- 50% discount on nursery fees
- Day camps discounts: 1 week free and 1 week at 50% per child per annum
- Campsite and activities discounts at YMCA Fairthorne Manor
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunities for professional development
Job Purpose:
The Community Co-ordinator will co-produce with the local community to ensure that YMCA is delivering service and programmes that are both wanted and useful to local people. The postholder will provide overall leadership and management, will be based at the Centre and support the volunteers to run the diverse service, with people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds accessing provisions within the centre.
The successful postholder will oversee the day-to-day activities of the setting ensuring all programmes and services are delivered to the highest possible standards. The community is diverse, with people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds.
- Create a warm, welcoming and friendly atmosphere so that the building genuinely is the hub of activity for the community.
- Use entrepreneurial flair, financial acumen and people skills, to bring people into the building and drive its income targets from the café and community hire.
- Forge partnerships and connections across the community and with the centre’s stakeholders
- Manage the building and staff team
Person Specification & Key Competencies
Personal attributes
- Confident to work with a small team of volunteers
- Can work independently and within a team
- Welcoming nature when communicating with others
- Able to talk confidently about YMCA Fairthorne Group and to identify potential services for the Centre
- Creative and innovative, with the ability to deliver fun and engaging programmes
- Well organised with an eye for detail and motivated to take ownership of programmes and see things through to the end
- A sound understanding of effective customer service
- Work using own initiative.
- Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
- Commitment to equal opportunities and an inclusive approach
Qualifications/Experience
Essential:
- Computer skills (including MS Word and Excel)
- Good timekeeping and diary management
- First Aid Qualification (or willingness to work towards)
- Oversight of volunteers
- Some experience of working with communities or groups
Desirable:
- Budget management
- Health and safety qualification e.g. IOSH (or willingness to work towards)
Successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via Disclosure and Barring Service.
We are an equal opportunities charity with commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. A copy of this policy will be made available on request.
Please apply now for this rewarding position and be part of an amazing charity who continue to support and achieve wonderful things within the community.
Apply now
Please apply now for this rewarding position and be part of an amazing charity that continues to support and achieve wonderful things within the community.
The successful applicant must undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via Disclosure and Barring Service.
We are an equal opportunities charity with a commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. A copy of this policy will be made available on request.
