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Business Development Coordinator

£28,000 per annum pro rata

Full (35 hours p.w.) or Part time (from 21 hours p.w.)

Permanent

Missing People’s Business Development team works to improve the response to missing children, missing adults, and their families, through innovative services, training and consultancy projects. We work with police, local authority leads and front-line local authority practitioners, Health, Education, and the voluntary sector. In this role, you will be responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of projects, and supporting with bids and funding applications. You will also play a key role in promoting the team’s work. You will be confident at communicating with a wide range of professionals and senior representatives of organisations who commission our services. You will be involved in training and delivering presentations to the police and social workers among other people on topics such as missing children and adults.

Key Accountabilities

Project coordination and support

• Co-ordinate projects within the Business Development Team, including training, conferences and consultancy projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, and meet the needs of commissioners
• Review and analyse police and partner agencies’ data and documents relating to missing persons to support our consultancy and training work

Event coordination and support

• Organise events (such as conferences or training events) to ensure relevant staff, speakers, venue, technology and logistics are in place.
• Manage event bookings
• Deliver training, presentations or events to multi-agency professionals such as police and social workers

Business Development Team support • Provide administrative support to project leads in our Business Development Team • Respond to and direct enquiries from professionals and commissioners • Create or edit promotional content, business documentation and PowerPoint slides in our house style • Research funding opportunities and help write bids and funding application

Experience of: working in a project support or coordination role • Experience of organising events (for example conferences or training events) • delivering training or presentations to external audiences • providing administrative / business support to a busy team

Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Project support skills: ability to support project managers from beginning to end of projects and support multiple projects simultaneously • Strong organisational skills, and able to prioritise competing tasks • Good numerical and spreadsheet skills, able to monitor budgets and spending • Strong interpersonal skills, building good relationships with internal colleagues and external partners

Somebody goes missing in the UK every 90 seconds. Missing People exists to ease the heartache experienced by those missing someone, and to help people who are away from home find their way back to safety. Our vision is for every missing child, adult and family left behind to find help, hope and a safe way to reconnect. We are a non-judgemental, highly skilled team of staff and volunteers working for everyone who needs us. We provide free, confidential support, help and advice by phone, email, text and live chat. We coordinate a UK-wide network of people, businesses and media to join the search for the estimated 170,000 people who go missing each year. Missing People aims to put people with lived experience at the heart of our work, amplifying their voices to achieve change.

Working for Missing People means living our values. It’s a place where people are encouraged to ‘let fly’ so you can ‘make things happen’. We know you’re more than just a job title, and ‘be human’ is an important value here. Missing People is an independent charity that relies on donations.

For further details, please see attached job description/person specification and letter to applicants. You can also watch a video about the role.

Closing date: 23:59 on 16 August 2023

Interviews - 22/23 August 2023