Growth Manager Remote
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Growth Manager to join our Growth and Communities Team.
Location: Homebased working across South of England
Salary: £45,121 per annum - Band G, Level 3
Term: Fixed-Term Contract to March 2025
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world.
About the Growth Manager Role:
As our Growth Manager – Scouts and Explorers, you will be leading a team who deliver exceptional quality support for local Scouting, pro-actively helping Counties and Districts achieve their growth ambitions.
What we are looking for in our Growth Manager:
- Ability to lead and manage a team of up to 8 direct reports, managing performance effectively, setting clear expectations and objectives, managing competing priorities and balancing differing needs
- Possess high level of relationship skills to ensure effective relationships with a wide range of people from young people to Chief, Regional, County and District Commissioners to leaders of faith communities and external bodies
- An understanding of most, if not all the following issues: growth, rural communities, urban communities, low income communities, minority ethnic communities, schools, local authority youth and community service, partnership projects
- Experience of effectively developing high performing teams whilst instilling a strong sense of accountability and empowerment in a values based culture
- An effective leader who is assertive, energetic, determined, robust and sufficiently resilient to cope with the demands of the role
Key responsibilities as our Growth Manager:
- Ensure the delivery of our new provision targets to open new Scout and Explorer Scout sections in assigned area by providing leadership, management and support to the assigned Local Growth Officers, ensuring that they deliver against their individual targets.
- Take responsibility for the effective management (including target setting and performance management) of Local Growth Officers working across the allocated geographic area using organisational recording and reporting tools.
- Work with other Growth Managers and colleagues within the Growth & Communities Team to identify, capture and showcase examples of good and emerging new practice in opening Scouts in currently underrepresented communities for wider dissemination among staff colleagues and volunteers across the movement.
As our Growth Manager in return, we offer you:
- Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department
- Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
- Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
- 28 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 32 days after two years
- Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
- Three extra days over Christmas
We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Flexible working hours
- Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
Closing date for applications: 11:59pm Monday 28th August 2023
The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.
Strictly no agencies.
