* 30-37.5 hours per week (min. 4 days), permanent (6 months' probation) flexible.
Role
About The Challenges Group
The Challenges Group is an international enterprise development organisation that delivers enterprising solutions to global challenges. The key global challenges we are helping to tackle are: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Gender Equality and Empowerment for all Women and Girls, Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Regenerative Consumption and Production Good Health and Wellbeing. Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an integral part of our approach.
Everything we do is designed to maximise enterprises’ potential, so they can deliver extraordinary impact. We achieve this by improving their organisational capabilities through learning and leadership development for people; strengthening enterprises and their ecosystems; facilitating access to finance; and supporting innovation.
We operate globally, have offices in seven countries - Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the UK, Zambia and Tanzania - and have been privileged to support more than 5,000 individual enterprises, across 78 countries, refined over 25 years of application since we started in 1999.
Learning & Leadership for Economic Empowerment
The Challenges Group is a long-standing provider of management and leadership training to a range of audiences globally, including through our strategic partnership with the Chartered Management Institute. We are seeking a Business Development Manager for our Scotland based Learning & Leadership team. The Learning & Leadership team are responsible for facilitating a range of training delivery to a number of key client groups in Scotland, either within programmes that support under-represented groups (such as the award-winning Making Work Work) or as a B2B training offer.
Investing in economic empowerment is essential for fostering sustainable development and economic growth. We are committed to growing the capacity of organisations and people across our markets through training of women and other key target groups, providing innovative solutions that engage, grow and connect people to emerging opportunities for growth and development.
We have been designing and delivering work-readiness, professional skills development, and early-stage entrepreneurship programmes, with proven experience of creating sustainable employment and opportunities across a wide range of sectors for 18 years and have trained over 28,000 individuals.
The role
The Business Development Manager will work closely with the Business Development Director and the Senior Manager, Learning & Leadership. There may be opportunities to support other areas of Challenges work on finding enterprising solutions to global challenges, depending on experience, knowledge and availability.
The successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly in a hybrid pattern based out of the Challenges office in Edinburgh, where we are co-located with a number of social enterprises and social enterprise support agencies. It is a vibrant, dynamic working environment within the My Edinburgh ecosystem dedicated to social change. Some travel, for example to meet clients, develop business relationships or participate in events will be required. Challenges works according to an outcomes-focused, flexible working model and the successful candidate will be expected to manage their time in accordance with their responsibilities, workload and non-work commitments in a way which supports team collaboration and achievement of common objectives.
Closing date: Please send your CV and cover letter as soon as you are able. We will not review applications received after Friday 21 February.
We will be in touch with applicants after that date, if not before.
We hope someone can start in March/April 2025.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Challenges Group welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We are dedicated to greater diversity and inclusion within our own organisation and strive to provide equal opportunities to people of all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identifications and abilities.
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