Centre Manager
- Full time
- £27,000 – £30,000
- On site: East Kilbride
- Closing 20th September 2024
- Advertised from 28th August 2024
- Salary dependent on experience. 40 hours per week.
Role
Organisational Profile:
The Village Centre is a vibrant community centre with over 100 groups using the buildings, and a busy café boasting delicious and affordable food daily. We exist in order to fulfil the needs of our local community by offering a safe and comfortable place for groups to meet, at affordable prices. The Village Centre is a place where all are welcome and all are valued. We strive to be a Centre for the Community, rather than a Community Centre, helping, serving, and equipping those in our local community to be live their best lives. Working in Partnership with East Mains Baptist Church, we offer a range of free courses and services, alongside our commercial groups meeting within our premises.
Job Purpose:
As the Centre Manager, the post holder is required to lead the team of café and support staff. To plan, coordinate, and direct a broad range of services that allow the organisation to operate efficiently and effectively.
The post holder will develop and underpin the services required to enable The Village Centre to provide a professional, relational, person-centred approach to serving the local community.
Support our information systems where appropriate, ensuring data integrity across the organisation, maintaining records with regards to volunteering, finance, bookings, payroll, and any other operational requirement.
The post holder will facilitate the room booking system, setting up rooms and co-ordinating catering requirements.
The post holder will drive a process of continuous improvement across all aspects of the business.
In addition, the post holder will attend meetings and networking events to promote the work of the organisation, and make good connections with other organisations.
Full job description can be downloaded below.
Application notes
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to info@thevillagecentre.co.uk.
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To plan, develop and monitor new and existing youth and families projects and developments within the Boomerang Community Centre, while engaging with local communities, the voluntary, faith, private and public sector organisations to ensure as an organisation we continue to grow.
To contribute to the achievements of the Boomerang Community Centre and to build on this valuable work in one of the most deprived communities in Dundee.
To undertake engagement and consultation activities, leading to the planning, advertising and in the delivery of new activities for children, young people and families. To carry out regular evaluation of these activities which will be monitored by the Centre Manager and reported through the Board of Trustees.
To ensure the smooth running of all existing children, youth and family groups and activities and to promote the Boomerang Community Centre and activities at external events and via outreach work.
To work with children, youth and family groups and individuals to improve physical and mental wellbeing.
In conjunction with the Centre Manager help to secure funding for the organisation and to complete monitoring and evaluation to existing funders.
To prepare information to assist in the monitoring of grants.
To work with the Volunteer Co-ordinator to recruit and retain volunteers to assist with the successful running of any children, young people or family groups.
Top job! Building Facilities and Lettings Manager
- Part time
- £41,666 pro-rata
- On site: Maryhill
- Closing 10th November 2024
Maryhill Burgh Halls is an historic landmark building in North Glasgow. The listed 19th century façade wraps round a modern interior following the building’s comprehensive restoration and reconstruction completed in 2012. The Halls are owned and operated by Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust, a registered charity. The Trust operates the building for two principal functions:
- Event space - for heritage & art exhibitions, community activities and events as well as for private event hire.
- Business centre with business tenancies (providing the finances to support the overall operation)
Job Overview:
The key role of the Building Facilities and Lettings Manager is to look after the building and the occupational needs of the tenants and of the Trust. This includes acting as landlord to the business centre and as managed space provider to Trust’s hire, heritage and community use of the event space.
The Building Facilities and Lettings Manager will report in the first instance to the Trust’s Buildings and Lettings Committee and will be primarily responsible for the facilities and commercial lettings business and will work closely with the Trust staff managing the event and heritage activities.
Trust staff will provide financial (including purchasing, invoicing and bookkeeping) and administrative support to the Building Facilities and Lettings Manager.
A standard form of occupational licence is in use (with a structured service charge regime) and legal and property marketing services are available from agents.
Responsibilities:
Building:
- Oversee responsive, planned, and cyclical repairs, maintenance, and minor refurbishments to the structure, M&E and all other elements of the building fabric,
- Build a network of skilled trades to handle routine, planned, and emergency maintenance needs
- Be hands-on when necessary to troubleshoot and resolve key maintenance issues.
- Achieve best value, quality standards, and budget goals.
- Oversee statutory compliance and ensure health & safety protocols are being followed.
- Undertake risk assessments and manage risks associated with the building facilities and use.
- Improve and manage energy efficiency.
- Manage and operate the BMS.
- Manage building services including waste management, utilities, security and cleaning etc. including: Oversight of retained M&E management contractor and Management of caretaking staff.
- Preparation of budgets for maintenance management
Tenants:
- Manage lettings, re-lettings, reviews etc relating to the leases and licences of the business centre.
- Manage dilapidations agreements and related works
- Production, management, and reconciliation of service charge budgets.
- Act as first point of contact with tenants for all property related matters.
Others:
- Support the Halls Team with any property related requirements to support events/bookings/exhibitions.
- Advise the Trustees on all strategic and operational property matters.
Project Manager (Property)
- Full time
- £37,043 – £39,743
- Hybrid: Nearest SU Office/home. Ideally in Central Scotland
- Closing 7th November 2024
The Project Manager will have responsibility for, and a key role to play in delivering major building and refurbishment projects to help us deliver on SU Scotland's 2024-2027 Strategy and the furtherance of our vision.
Working with internal & external stakeholders to plan, manage and execute projects, you’ll play a crucial role in focusing our organisational efforts and adding capacity during this exciting period in our history. This role will identify and manage issues, risks and change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. The support required from this role will be agreed on a project by project basis in agreement with Project Sponsor and stakeholders.
Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has operated across Lanarkshire for 32 years supporting 5,000 children, young people and parents/carers to become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential. COVEY provides 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and family support.
COVEY has an exciting opportunity available for a Coordinator to manage delivery of 1-1 and group-based befriending/ mentoring support to children and young people.
COVEY’s consistent relationship-based support, which is centred on the participant’s needs, interests and hopes, improves health and wellbeing, social connections, confidence and increases their engagement with education, training, volunteering or employment.
As a Coordinator, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with children, young people, their families and others who support them. This will involve engaging with various, community, statutory and voluntary agencies and working in close partnership to support vulnerable families.
You would ideally have experience of supporting volunteers, managing a caseload, evaluation and monitoring. We are looking for someone who has a real passion around supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community.
What we offer
We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- flexible working (including flexi-time)
- access to learning and development opportunities
- one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
- annual staff and volunteer recognition awards
- quarterly staff wellbeing activities
- annual all staff outing/activity
- HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
- access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
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