Jobs in Dingwall and Seaforth, Highland

With an 18 year track record of successful delivery in Scotland, and 10 years’ experience of facilitating Gaelic medium learning programmes, for both young people and adults, the Social Enterprise Academy has been sharing its business and learning delivery models for the past 9 years with international partners through a social licence approach.

This new role will now allow us to build strong relationships with partners and clients in Gaelic medium, and will be dedicated to growing this important area of our work.

We are looking for someone up for working with vibrant, entrepreneurial and dedicated people and colleagues and with a good value-fit with our organisation.

Having the right mind-set, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

Job Purpose

• To support the Head of Sustainable Business to drive strategic business development, major contracts and direct delivery sales targets for the Social Enterprise Academy in Gaelic medium programmes
• To support the Academy by identifying and developing new bids, proposals and tenders in the Gaelic sector
• To manage allocated client relationships and account manage programme delivery

Key Responsibilities

• Identify Gaelic medium sales opportunities across multiple sectors and lead on the development of bids and proposals for SEA’s Gaelic medium provision
• Identify opportunities for multi-country programme sales with key strategic funders, from the third sector, government and private sector
• Write high quality proposals, bids and tenders as necessary, identifying key market trends and developing budgets
• Build relationships with key organisations working in the Gaelic sector
• Account manage allocated Gaelic medium programmes, working with the Operations and Partnerships team to ensure their effective delivery
• Implement a market development strategy, generating leads, delivering sales targets and gaining market entry in the Gaelic sector

To see the full job description and set of criteria please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Organisation profile:

At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe in the power of learning and development to transform people of all ages to be agents of change.

Since 2004, we have facilitated over 78,000 social entrepreneurs globally to help create fairer communities where people have equitable access to opportunities.

Through our social franchising model we have been scaling our impact and we want to increase this number to 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Through our International Accelerator Fund we will build a financially sustainable hub network to increase the ripples of change taking place in communities around the world.

By providing them with the real life experience of running their own social enterprise, we are also empowering young people to become the future makers and job creators of their countries through our Social Enterprise Schools programme. Young people around the world are developing key future skills such as creativity, social entrepreneurship and financial literacy to ensure maximum sustainability and impact in their schools, communities and beyond.

Could you be Key?

Support Worker - *Male Only (39 hours per week)

Hourly Rate: £10.58 (£10.02 induction rate)

Sleepover Hourly Rate £10.02

*pay award pending*

Relief Register (Bank)

Hourly Rate: £10.02

Sleepover Hourly Rate £10.02

*pay award pending*

Ref: SWR/ER/14448

Due to the ongoing growth and development of our personalised support services we currently have a number of exciting job opportunities in the Invergordon, Alness, Easter Ross, Muir of Ord and Conon Bridge areas.

Working locally, join one of our teams delivering great quality individualised support where every day is different in this challenging but rewarding role.

Applicants must be prepared to work flexibly as part of the team to meet the needs of the people who use our service. Supports will include work in the evenings and weekends as well as sleepovers and waking nights when required.

If you are caring, reliable, flexible and passionate about getting alongside people providing support to achieve the life they want then... you could be Key!

In turn, you will receive:

· 31 days annual leave

· Occupational Sick Pay

· Excellent Training

· Support to achieve a SVQ 2 qualification

· Access to Employee Counselling Service

No experience necessary! Full training and support will be given to help you achieve your full potential.

If you would like to get involved in support work but cannot commit to a contract due to other commitments, we also have opportunities for you to complement our existing workers by joining our relief register of bank support workers. This will mean you can work in a way that best suits you and fits with your life.

We would encourage you to submit your application as the earliest convenience as we may be able to offer interview at an earlier date to shortlisted candidates. If you would like to arrange an informal chat to find out more do not hesitate to get in touch!