Job Title: On the Water Project Coordinator
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £32,250 gross per annum
Job type: Fixed term until 31st December 2025, full time 35hrs per week
Closing Date: Monday 21 April 2025
Interviews Date: Interviews to be held on Friday 2 May
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The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.
We are currently looking for an On The Water Project Coordinator to join our team.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on an externally funded outreach project providing hard to reach young people with the opportunity to try free boating sessions over the summer holidays.
This is a very varied and rewarding role that requires someone who is self-motivated, organised, creative, tenacious, positive and IT competent with experience in project management.
You need to be able to motivate and inspire your project team, ensuring that the project is on target through continuous monitoring and evaluation. The On The Water Project Coordinator will be responsible for the line management of 3 fixed-term Project Assistants.
Whilst this role is homebased for the majority of the time, it requires the post holder to travel to each of the locations intensively throughout the 5 week delivery period, as well as regular travel for both the planning and evaluation periods. Travel expenses are covered as part of the role.
Key Responsibilities:
Coordinate and ensure the delivery of the On the Water project
1. To manage the temporary Project Assistants at Royal Docks, Midlands and Port Edgar Boat Stations
2. Work with the Project Assistants and Growth and Development Workers to enable the effective recruitment of young people, particularly those facing difficulties or disadvantage to the project through recruitment and referrals from local authorities, schools and other relevant bodies
3. Devise, plan and implement systems to record and report on the project’s activity, progress and outcomes
4. Manage the budget in accordance with the agreed expenditure targets, ensuring that accurate records are maintained
5. Ensure the safe and smooth running of delivery in line with all internal policies
6. Manage the evaluation, wrap up and future planning of the project
7. Ensure the project meets it’s targets and funders have timely and accurate reports
8. Develop robust monitoring and booking systems and ensure they are rolled out, understood, and used across all 3 sites
Requirements:
Essential:
9. Experience of working with young people or community development in a wide variety of community groups
10. Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating projects and/or activities
11. Proven leadership skills
12. Building partnerships
13. Excellent internal and external stakeholders skills
14. Line management responsibility
15. Full Driving Licence
Desirable:
16. Qualification in Project Management
17. Line management of a remote team
Benefits:
18. Flexible Working hours and a hybrid culture
19. Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
20. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
21. Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
22. Private medical insurance
23. Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
24. Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
25. Employee development: We are investing in our employees’ development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
If you are interested in this On The Water Project Coordinator vacancy, please apply now!
Additional Information
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check.
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