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Service Development Manager
- Full time
- Circa £35,000
- Edinburgh (working remotely until further notice)
- Closing 7th June 2021
- Advertised from 13th May 2021
- Permanent
Role
About St John Scotland
St John Scotland is a Scottish charity focused on developing community health resilience in order to save lives across Scotland. Most of our service in Scotland is delivered by volunteers across 12 Local Area Committees.
We have a proud history of providing and supporting lifesaving services in Scotland, both through our dedicated volunteers and by working alongside other organisations. However, following a recent strategic review, we recognise that St John Scotland is not well known in Scotland, and that we need to develop and strengthen our four existing core services to have a consistently positive impact across the country.
We are ambitious to build a sustainable future in which St John Scotland is a well-recognised and effective Scottish charity developing community health resilience through active local volunteers and collaborative working.
About the role
The Service Development Manager will lead a new team of Development Officers supporting our local volunteers to develop and deliver services in their local communities. The focus of activity is on our core services (Patient Transport, Public Access Defibrillators, CPR Training and Community First Responders) in order to build and consolidate the identity of St John Scotland nationally and in local communities.
The focus of the role will be:
• Developing and managing our core services at a national level, ensuring effective budgeting, planning, and reporting. This is very much a collaborative process, working with Area Teams, the Board, and partners to determine what is achievable and desirable in each Area in contributing to overall strategic objectives
• Building the capacity and enthusiasm of volunteer teams to deliver outcomes, ensuring that all of our volunteers feel recognised, supported and enabled
• Managing and developing a team of up to four part-time Development Officers (to be recruited summer 2021) who will be based remotely in different areas of Scotland, to support the Areas in delivering charitable services.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our charitable services by encouraging and enabling collaboration across Area Teams, ensuring effective governance arrangements are in place for all services, and working alongside partner organisations to develop best practice in service development and delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications / Education
o Higher Education with evidence of ongoing professional development.
Experience
o Working with volunteers and staff in a leadership role within a decentralised organisation to deliver specific outcomes.
o Community engagement to initiate projects, develop, deliver, and demonstrate impact.
o Developing effective partnerships, collaborative working arrangements and/or service agreements with multiple organisations which demonstrate contribution to overall objectives.
o Managing a programme/ multiple projects, event planning and administration reporting to senior management / Board level.
o Experience directly relevant to any of our core services is highly desirable
Knowledge and Skills
o Ability to work collaboratively with volunteers, colleagues, and partners to develop and deliver services.
o Knowledge of governance and operational requirements of working within the Charity sector.
o An awareness of community health resilience and equalities issues is desirable
o Holding a First Aid or similar qualification is desirable. A willingness to undertake a relevant qualification is essential.
o Excellent IT skills, including experience of using the full Microsoft Office suite with a particular focus on communication within a decentralised organisation.
Personal requirements
o Able to demonstrate leadership combined with a willingness to work alongside volunteers to support them and their activity, to empower others and work collaboratively.
o Highly motivated and resilient. Able to use initiative, demonstrate discretion, sound judgement and effective decision-making ability.
o Excellent communication skills such that you can communicate effectively with people and groups from primary school children to Board Members
o Flexibility and adaptability
o Accuracy and attention to detail
o Clean UK driving license and a willingness to travel on charitable business and work flexibly to enable effective engagement with our volunteer teams across Scotland.
Application notes
Download a full role description and person specification below
Please submit applications by CV and covering letter, explaining how your skills and experience would be a suitable fit for the role, to info@stjohnscotland.org.uk
Closing date: 09.00am on Monday 7 June
Interviews to be held w/c 14 June by Zoom
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