WHALE Arts are currently looking to recruit a Enterprise & Facilities Manager and a Fundraising Lead.
Enterprise and Facilities Manager – the post is part time, working 28 hours per week with a salary of £30,000 per annum pro rata (£24,000 per annum for post), The funding for this post runs until end of March 2022.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 3 years experience of social enterprise, business, or third sector management.
- Experience of facilities management processes.
- Experience of dealing with trades/contractors.
- Knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety legislation.
- Experience of overseeing Health and Safety procedures in public spaces.
- Experience of driving income through room, office and desk rentals.
- Experience of developing creative and/or community enterprise.
- Knowledge and understanding of the social enterprise and social investment sector in Scotland.
- Marketing and business development experience in relation to driving income.
- Excellent financial management skills and experience of managing budgets.
- Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with community, academic, local & national government and other stakeholders.
- Experience in managing public funding.
- Communication skills, including copywriting and making presentations.
- Monitoring, evaluation and report writing skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Experience of managing staff and volunteers.
- Educated to degree level or with equivalent practical experience.
Apply by email attaching:
- An up to date CV detailing relevant education and employment experience.
- A covering letter demonstrating how your skills meet the Person Specification (no more than 2 pages).
- Details of two referees, including at least one previous employer.
Applications open on Friday 17 January 2020. Applications close on Friday 14 February 2020 – applications should be submitted no later than 1pm. Late applications will not be considered. Please send these to recruitment@whalearts.co.uk using Enterprise & Facilities Manager Application in the subject line.
Fundraising Lead (Trusts and Grants) – this post is part time, working 1 day a week, with a salary of : £26,000 – £28,000 per annum pro rata for 35 hours per week dependant on experience (1 day per week = £5200 – £5600 per annum). The funding for this post runs until end of March 2022.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- A proven track record of successful fundraising from charitable trusts.
- Experience of grant applications e.g. lottery, landfill tax, statutory funders.
- Desire to meet targets and ability to work flexibly towards those targets.
- Understanding and experience of the community arts, culture, health and wellbeing, education or youth sectors.
- Ability to use own initiative, plan and manage own workload and support others.
- A confident communicator, able to clearly convey complex information to a variety of audiences.
- Commitment to, understanding and sensitive communication of our work and values.
- Enthusiastic and positive attitude; high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent IT skills – experience of using fundraising databases would be an advantage (we do not currently use one but it is something we are planning).
- Awareness of GDPR and data protection issues.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Apply by email attaching:
- An up to date CV detailing relevant education and employment experience.
- A covering letter demonstrating how your skills meet the person specification – no more than 2 pages.
- Details of two referees, including at least one previous employer.
Applications open on Friday 17 January 2020. Applications close on Friday 14 February 2020 – applications should be submitted no later than 1pm. Late applications will not be considered. Please send these to recruitment@whalearts.co.uk using Fundraising Lead Application in the subject line.
For more information about either of these vacancies, visit WHALE Arts’ Website or contact Leah Black, leah@whalearts.co.uk.
