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Business Development Manager (North East England)

Salary: £38,610

Benefits: Company pension (up to 8%), 35 days annual leave, an employee assistance programme and learning and development opportunities.

Status: Permanent / Full-time (35 hours per week, flexible working options)

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 12 February 2024

Location: Based in North East England (working flexibly from home and within community office spaces shared with key partners)

We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?

We are looking for an engaging, innovative, community-minded Business Development Manager to support us in delivering learning programmes throughout North East England.

Your role will be to manage and grow the Academy’s work in North East England, meeting targets in terms of contracted delivery of learning programmes in the region and new business development for learning programmes; contribute to business growth and increase the scale and impact of transformative partnership development and relationship management.

Informed by overall strategy and with the support of the wider Sustainable Business Team, you will work independently at a managerial level at the Academy and engage with clients. funders, contractors, stakeholders, facilitators and partner organisations.

Along with other members of the Sustainable Business Team, you will make a contribution to operational and strategic planning, particularly for the North East England region, and have collective responsibility for the achievement of annual income, learning targets and strategic outcomes, as well as supporting the delivery of the Social Enterprise Schools Programme in the region. This is a varied and exciting new role which has genuine scope to grow.

We are looking for someone who wants to work with vibrant, entrepreneurial and dedicated people and colleagues and with a good value-fit with our organisation.

Having the right mindset, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet so if you feel your experience, skills and attitude will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mindset, we would welcome an application from you.

Job Purpose:

To manage and grow the Academy’s work in North East England.

• Delivering targets in terms of delivery of learning programmes in North East England.
• Creating new business development for learning programmes. 
• Contributing to overall business growth.  
• Increasing the scale and impact of transformative partnership development. 
• Key partner relationship management.
• Supporting the Social Enterprise Schools Programmes.  

Key Responsibilities:

Partnership Development

• Proactively initiating, developing, and managing new and existing partnerships and initiatives within the North East England region, as well as relevant wider UK initiatives as necessary.

Client Account Management

• Achieving target sales.
• Leading on regional account management from first contact through to introduction to Adult Programme Delivery team.
• Development of new accounts.

Sales

• Working closely with other Academy teams, overseeing programme coordination.
• Responsible for submission of successful direct sales, tenders, sponsorship and funding proposals in line with the Academy’s sales and fundraising strategies.
• Achieving agreed outcomes and targets.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Establishing monitoring and evaluation tools in line with organisation’s existing process.
• Analysing data and contributing data driven insight, experience and research to support the objectives of the Sustainable Business team in planning and achieving the Academy’s annual sales, fundraising and impact targets and strategic goals.

For a full set of criteria and information on how to apply please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Organisation profile:

At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.

We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.

Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.

Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.

Application notes:

1. Complete the application form and the equality and diversity monitoring form (downloadable below)
2. Send your application form and equality and diversity monitoring form in Word document format to seahr@socialenterprise.academy by 5pm, Monday 12 February 2024
3. Please note that interviews will take place via Teams week commencing 29 January 2024

If you would like an informal chat to find out more about this opportunity, please contact David Bryan: david@socialenterprise.academy or 07887 515500.

If you have any questions or if you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments for the application or interview process e.g. application form in a different format or extra interview time please get in touch: Lanagh Taylor | 0131 243 2670| seahr@socialenterprise.academy

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SEA Application Form

Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form