We are looking for a talented Business Development Officer who is comfortable communicating in written and spoken Scottish Gaelic, to help us make an enhanced contribution to the development of Gaelic as a language of enterprise and communities, through facilitating transformational learning in Gaelic.
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.
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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
1. Complete our application form and equality and diversity monitoring form
2. Send your application form and equality and diversity monitoring form in Word document format to seahr@socialenterprise.academy
3. The closing date for applications is 1pm Thursday, 10 November 2022, however, as we are keen to fill this role as soon as possible, interviews may take place during the application period
4. Please note that interviews will be held via Zoom
More information available at: socialenterprise.academy/scot/join-the-team
If you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal chat about the role please contact David Bryan: david@socialenterprise.academy
If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments for the application or interview process please get in touch with Lanagh Taylor: seahr@socialenterprise.academy