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River Church Ipswich is an HTB Network church plant in the town centre of Ipswich, which launched in September 2021 and has already grown quickly into a thriving resource church, with a congregation of more than 200, and three Sunday services.
The Spear Centre Manager will work as part of the River Church staff team to oversee the delivery of Spear—an employability programme equipping and empowering unemployed 16-24 year-olds to overcome barriers to employment and their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.
The important stuff
Salary: £25,213
Hours: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9.30am-5.30pm with some out-of-hours work needed for events such as our Spear Celebrations
Location: River Church Ipswich – we are an office-based organisation
Closing date: We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate.
Application pack: Download our application pack for more information. Have a look at the Ipswich website to apply as we will not process applications through this page.
River Church has wheelchair access. Please feel free to contact the church for any enquiries regarding accessibility.
Key Responsibilities
Website
- Responsibility for maintenance and development of Resurgo’s website, delivering engaging content with a focus on dynamic visuals and videos, tailored to our different website audiences.
- Optimise user journeys across all Resurgo’s digital channels.
Partnership liaison and relationship management
- Establish the primary local referral agencies and build and implement a strategy for developing relationships with them to ensure recruitment of young people onto the Spear programme is effective.
- Maintain and develop relationships with local partners to form a strong referral network.
Oversight of Spear Programme Spear
Foundation is a 4-week initial phase, consisting of 2 group sessions and a 1:1 with each trainee per week, in which we coach young people around skills and mindsets to support them in returning to work or education, and equip them with the skills to stay there.
- As a confident communicator, you will lead group sessions of around 10 young people each, using coaching skills to transform attitudes to their own ability and the workplace, and to raise their awareness and maximise potential in stepping into the world of work.
- Prepare and coach group and 1-1 sessions with the Spear Assistant Coach.
- Ensure the programme is delivered in line with agreed targets, and report KPIs on recruitment, retention and completion of Spear Trainees to Resurgo and the Spear Trust, as well as their ongoing progress and sustainment of work or education
Line management and training
- Manage the Assistant Coach, using a coaching approach to invest in their growth and development.
- Be line managed by River Church staff, locally, and by Resurgo, nationally, to support with the set-up and ongoing operations of the centre and report back on KPI.
Supporting River Church’s mission and ministry
- You will be required to establish strong relationships with key people at the church to ensure the engagement and backing of church members, and help the Assistant coaches to establish a strong presence at the church to build a network of supporters for the Spear programme.
- Ensuring the Spear programme is a key missional feature of the work of the church
- Work with the Head of Operations and Fundraising Assistant to prepare successful grant funding applications for Spear Ipswich, and provide timely grant reporting.
- Attend and participate in Staff Meeting, Tuesday morning Prayer Meeting, and Sunday Services (serving on a team at one or more Sunday service) • Regularly pray for Spear, River Church, and in particular our Social Transformation work.
- Attending other River Church events and services, occasionally speaking and/or contributing as required • Ad hoc tasks and other project work.
Site management
- Liaise with relevant staff locally on site issues and work to resolve them as soon as possible, ensuring the office and training room are safe and tidy working spaces in line with health and safety policies.
Please apply on the website of River Church Ipswich. We will not process application through this page.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Our Business Development Team is integral to the success of our organisation and we are looking for a motivated, driven and proactive individual to join us as a Business Development Manager . You will be responsible for driving our new business strategy, aiming to secure new partnerships across education and raising our profile within Senior Leadership, as well as delivery teams. You will also play a significant role within the Business Development Team to provide both internal and external support, which will be both colleague and customer focussed. The successful candidate will understand the importance of developing an implementing new business strategies. They will be looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their sales and growth mindset within a strong team environment. They will be committed to working within our organisation values, whilst affecting external decision-making through a customer engagement approach.
The main purpose will be:
1. Deliver sales targets in line with business development strategies.
2. Lead the creation and implementation of ‘new business’ engagement strategies within the business development division.
3. Strategically expand the network of centres delivering Leadership Skills Foundation programmes.
4. Develop sales and registrations strategies to grow new business opportunities and maximise our relationships with centres.
Main Duties and Responsibilities include:
1. Create and implement the new business strategy for increasing the number of centres committed to delivering Leadership Skills Foundation programmes.
2. Identify and develop profitable growth opportunities with customers, partner networks and key stakeholders.
3. Collaborate with the Market Development Manager to include emerging programmes in maximising growth and expansion opportunities with centres.
4. Collaborate with marketing and communications colleagues to create new business campaigns and activities.
5. Co-ordinate tactical activities to engage with new audiences i.e. webinars and conferences.
6. Responsibility for ensuring all management information and relationship management insight relating to prospective/new centres is captured.
7. Monitor performance of commercial activities utilising insight systems to prepare reports and forecasts for the Head of Business Development and wider Leadership Team.
8. Conduct regular research and analysis on commercial opportunities to reach new audiences and expand/grow delivery.
9. Work alongside Innovation, Marcomms and Quality Assurance team colleagues to attract, engage and delight customers under the Customer Experience strategy.
10.Alongside the Head of Business Development and Director of Engagement, review, explore and consider future pricing models aimed at increasing the average spend of centres, supporting ‘a whole education leadership offer’.
11.To carry out any other duties as requested to support the work of the Leadership Skills Foundation commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of the post, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training.
The Business Development Manager will receive a generous salary, a flexible and agile working environment, private Vitality healthcare (subject to successful completion of probationary period), personal development opportunities, enhanced pension, enhanced holiday and sick pay and an extended Christmas break.
If you want to be part of thriving and evolving organisation, then we would love to hear from you and look forward to receivng your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.