Self Employment Advisor - Stretford, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

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Stretford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Stretford

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £30,000 per annum

Closing Date
10/03/2023

Ref No
3429

The Growth Company has an excellent opportunity for a Self-Employment Advisor to deliver high quality start-up advice and assistance across an allocated region, to people currently on various employability programmes who wish to consider self-employment as an option.

The Self-Employment Advisor's role is to ensure that the Restart Employability Programme service is delivered in order to produce the maximum impact in terms of assisting start-ups to reach their full potential, which will subsequently help the client from unemployment into self-employment.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing, organising and delivering a number of workshops such as enterprise coaching and business planning.
Understand and communicate the impact of state benefits on becoming selfemployed.
Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with client startups.
Make sure those services identified as appropriate for startup clients are personally introduced.
Actively monitor the progress and survival of startups.
Work with the core Programme teams, the Growth Start-Up Manager and other internal teams to ensure clients have a seamless journey through the Group's Enterprise programmes.
Ensure all enquiries and referrals are correctly recorded on associated data capturing systems, updating progress against agreed actions as plans progress.
Represent the Group at appropriate events and contribute to the development and delivery of events targeted at clients as required.

About You:

Excellent communication and networking skills.
An Organiser, with fantastic planning, organisational and administrative skills.
You have commercial awareness.
Team player, but also a selfstarter.
Proven critical thinking and problemsolving skills.

Requirements:

Valid driving license and access to a vehicle is essential.
Wide ranging business experience in the private sector, particularly in a startup business.
You have an understanding and experience of using project management techniques.
Experience putting together and understanding a cash flow forecast.
Comfortable with account and CRM database management.
Excellent Presentation skills both written and oral.

The Growth Company (GC) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working.

Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles.

We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.