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Regional Manager, Glasgow and West Areas

  • Full time
  • £34,000 – £37,500
  • Remote: Home based, in or close to Glasgow / Renfrewshire with fairly regular travel
  • Closing 19th January 2025


  • Advertised from 7th January 2025
  • Salary DOE. 35 hours per week over 4 or 5 days.

Role

About the Role

As a passionate professional in the identification, development and management of a wide range of relationships in support of our programme partnership, you will ensure the Career Ready programme in Glasgow and West areas (currently Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire) continues to thrive, which includes securing charitable donations from supporting partners. Your responsibilities for the area, will be as a team of two, alongside our other Regional Manager for Glasgow and West areas given this is our largest area in Scotland.

This role requires experience of partnership and account management and the scale and ambition of our social mobility work means you will need to be well organised, confident and able to positively influence a wide range of people including headteachers, teachers, CEOs and HRDs.

You will identify and approach opportunities that are well researched and pursue with unswerving perseverance. It’s also a great chance to develop personally.

Regional Managers are responsible for leading our work which involves growing, developing and maintaining the employer and education partnerships that deliver the Career Ready programme. This includes the Local Advisory Board, local authorities (key stakeholders), schools (we have a member of staff in each school who coordinates), the Developing the Young Workforce Regional Group, and the many employer organisations and their people who volunteer as mentors, provide paid internships and deliver masterclasses.

By assimilating what, why, when and the how of our work, you will be able to:

  1. Lead, grow and develop our Career Ready partnership in Glasgow and the West, optimising the programme experience for all stakeholders and securing the engagement of employer support for the programme of approximately 300+ students each year who will participate in the 18-month long Career Ready programme annually.
  2. Support programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and business development by working closely with the Career Ready Glasgow & West Local Advisory Board, the other Career Ready Glasgow & West Regional Manager, the Head of Programme & Operations, Partnerships Manager and the Career Ready Regional Manager Scotland team all who are focused on quality, impact and sustainability underpinned by attention to detail via efficient and effective processes. You will be supported by and work with the Career Ready Scotland Operations Team to maintain thorough data and management information for the area.

Find out more

You can find out more about the role, and working at Career Ready, in our candidate pack.

  • £34,000 – £37,500 DOE
  • A working from home allowance of £300 pa is provided
  • Annual leave: 25 days holiday plus bank/public holidays plus 2 additional days in the summer. In addition, Career Ready is closed between Christmas and New Year. Career Ready also allows flexible use of some Bank & Public Holidays
  • 6% of salary contribution to a private pension subject to an employee contribution of 3%
  • Access to both our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme
  • Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans
  • Business expenses including mileage allowance for car usage

Application notes

If you are genuinely interested in this role and would be willing to be with us for the long term, and at least two years, please apply as soon as possible by emailing your CV and a covering letter that demonstrates clearly, through use of examples, how your experience meets the requirements of the role, what attracts you to Career Ready and how you heard about the vacancy. Please provide details of your current salary.

Email: ecostello@hrcrecruitment.co.uk

For further information and if would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Evelyn Costello on 0141 212 7745 or ecostello@hrcrecruitment.co.uk