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Centre Manager

Employer
NFP People
Location
Devon
Salary
£40500 Per Annum
Closing date
27 Oct 2019

Job Details

We have an excellent opportunity for a Centre Manager to co-lead our client’s dedicated team at The Donkey Assisted Therapy Centre in Ivybridge

Position: Centre Manager

Location: Ivybridge, Devon – “an area of outstanding natural beauty”

Hours: 35 hours per week 

Salary: £40,500

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: Generous annual leave, pension scheme, Healthshield plan, confidential counselling service, subsidised restaurant, free parking, enhanced maternity/paternity benefits, Life Assurance Scheme, 31 day’s holiday per year, inclusive of the 8 statutory public holidays. This increases by one day each year until a maximum of 34 days is reached.

Closing Date: 27th October

The Role

As Centre Manager you will effectively lead, support and manage the centre and its staff to ensure the delivery of effective, high quality donkey-facilitated learning sessions to vulnerable people both at the centre and as part of our client’s outreach activities in the community for schools and residential and care homes.

The Centre Manager will:

 

  • Provide an effective service to the centre customers and charity supporters
  • Proactively grow fundraising
  • Support the delivery of donkey-facilitated learning across the community.
  • Lead the centre team of employees and volunteers to efficiently and effectively achieve agreed goals and objectives
  • Monitor the standards of service to ensure consistently high standards are maintained.

 

About You

To be successful in the role of Centre Manager you will bring with you:

 

  • Proven experience of working with vulnerable people, an understanding of their needs and the difference that donkey facilitated learning can make in their lives.
  • Knowledge of safe-guarding and safe working practices
  • Strong management and coaching experience
  • Excellent communication, organisational and collaborative skills.

 

If you feel you have the qualifications, skills and experience to fulfil this varied, rewarding and vital role, we would love to hear from you. Based in Ivybridge, Devon– this is a full time, permanent contract starting as soon as possible, working 35 hours per week.

In return…

You can be part of an evolving program of change taking place within a leading charity working in an area of outstanding natural beauty. With amazing benefits and opportunities to develop you career, you can really make a difference in a fulfilling and rewarding role.

About the Organisation

Our client is one of the UK’s largest international animal welfare charities, for more than 40 years they have provided donkey assisted activities for children in the UK and overseas. Over the past four decades the programme has evolved to enable the provision of interactive, psychosocial, Donkey Facilitated and Equine Assisted Learning Programmes that utilise mutually enriching interaction sessions aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of donkeys and critical life skills of vulnerable people.

“The Sanctuary is a positive place to work with friendly staff and a wonderful charity. With amazing work throughout the world, once you join you never want to leave!”

Our client is a Disability Confident Employer. They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults) and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01234 815658
Location
6 West Street
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 5HR
GB

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