Workshop and Events Facilitator - Preston, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

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Preston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Growth Company (GC) is looking to recruit a Workshops and Events Facilitator who will support and enable the delivery of our one-to-many workshop events across Lancashire.

(GC) is an award-winning Social Enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. As a commercially driven not-for-profit, any surplus we make is reinvested into our services supporting growth that has real impact.

Key Responsibilities:

To manage a portfolio of internal workshops & events programmes, ensuring that each event is delivered on time and in line with the key stakeholder requirements.
Proactively engage with workshop stakeholders offering support and guidance on such things as date planning, event page content curation, and marketing options.
Utilise CRM and similar systems to refer clients to inhouse and partner services.
Ensuring correct allocation of event hours on the CRM system by liaising with stakeholder teams.
Interrogate, analyse, and report on data systems to support, and input management information.
Liaise with senior managers to support the continuous development of the suite of workshops ensuring that these remain relevant and appropriate in an everchanging marketplace.
Support senior management with the organisation of seminars, conferences, and workshops, ensuring the effective administration of such events including promotion and venues, and delegate registration, attendance, and feedback.
Produce management information reports in line with business requirements and timescales as well as in response to ad hoc requests; support managers to prepare reports to the senior team, Boards and partners/funders.
Support the implementation of customer satisfaction and feedback processes.

About You:

Ensuring compliance within programmes funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Delivering projects of work to meet defined targets and competing priorities.
Tracking and producing performance management data.
Use of databases, management information systems, CRM systems.
High level of knowledge and understanding in contract management practice, and compliance particularly concerning ERDF, European, and national government funding.
Logical, high attention to detail.
Approachable, with confidence to request data/information from professionals when required and highlight noncompliance (with the support and backing of the Project Manager).

Skills and experience required:

Able to integrate data and CRM systems to produce performance management data.
Excellent planning and organisational skills and high level written and oral communication skills.
Sound professional judgment and the ability to handle competing priorities.
Ability to manage own time and to work unsupervised.
Responds positively to new and revised programmes.
Confidence and presence to engage all levels internally.

This post will be initially funded under the UKSPF programme
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.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Pay:
Up to £26,000.00 per year

Benefits: