Job Title



Job Title

Education Director

Job Status

Permanent / Full Time

Salary

£42,500 - £50,000

Reporting

Chief Executive Officer

Key Relationships

|Internal |External |

|Chief Executive Officer (Line Manager) |Local Businesses |

|All Other Staff |Partner Organisations and Stakeholders, including Doncaster |

| |Council, the Careers and Enterprise Company and the Department |

| |for Education. |

|Board of Directors |Sub Contractors/Service Providers |

| |Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership |

| |Educational institutions including SEN |

Supervisory Responsibilities

4x direct reports:

Business and Education Manager

Business and Education Adviser

2x Enterprise Coordinators

Doncaster Chamber Vision, Values and Behaviours

To work towards our vision and share our company values (see page 4)

Our Vision: “To be the best Chamber of Commerce in the UK.”

Our Values: Empowered, Helpful, Meaningful Collaboration, Credible, Belief

Main Duties & Tasks

Drive the development of the Chambers Education and Skills department, with a clear focus of generating revenue, driving quality and building the strategy as the boroughs support mechanism for business and educators.

This role will be responsible for:

• Generating new income (funded and commercial)

• Exploring writing and winning bids and proposals for future income

• Supporting the team to deliver contractual outputs, with a clear focus on quality at all times

• Leading on innovation, to ensure our offering is “the best in class”

• Building a strategy that diversifies our offering and income streams across the department

• Engaging and networking with the most senior partners and stakeholders to build mutually beneficial relationships and referral points, attending appropriate events where necessary. These include (Careers and Enterprise Company, Sheffield City Region, Doncaster Council, Department for Education, British Chambers of Commerce)

• Conducting market research and analysis to create detailed business plans on commercial opportunities to secure revenue from businesses and schools

• Working with colleagues to design and launch a membership proposition for educators.

• Implementing strategies to drive revenue and ultimately business growth

Continuous improvement of our proposition to ensure it is differentiated from the competition and addresses genuine areas of market failure with a strong focus on innovation and efficiency

• Working with the team to ensure that the Chamber develops digitally – creating new platforms and ways of engaging with businesses, educationalists, young people and communities

• Work with direct reports to produce an annual, realistic and challenging budget forecast

• Line management and motivation of the direct reports and in return ensure direct reports are motivated and able to achieve results

• Review management/board reports submitted by team on progress against business plan/budget and ensure contingencies are in place for any deviation.

• Attend board meetings to present on strategic updates/new commercial opportunities

• Ensure direct reports complete funding claims timely and accurately

• Work closely with the Head of Finance to ensure budgets are accurate, and any costings accrued and spent are clearly planned for.

• Deputising for CEO when required and representing the Chamber on key boards, groups and forums

• Public affairs activity such as press and media interviews

• Ensuring all areas under the Education Director’s control meet or exceed financial and operational targets

• Work with colleagues to develop an annual communications plan that significantly raises our profile of this work

• Continue to uphold the values of the Chamber and be professional as a senior leader/director

• Work closely with senior posts within the education community to promote, develop and grow strategic partnerships and investigate opportunities in the market

• Work closely with the Careers Hub leader to support the Enterprise Coordinators.

• Developing ways to engage educationalists, learners and communities outside of traditional ‘school based’ mechanisms

• Be the lead for the Doncaster Promise, and Start Platform for the borough.

Key Performance Indicators

• Achieve or exceed all agreed budgetary targets

• Secure new income (commercial and or funded) in line with education and skills strategy to a minimum value of £275k for the financial year 21/22

• Secure new income (commercial and or funded) in line with education and skills strategy to a minimum value of £300k for the financial year 22/23

• Develop a system to record all activity of businesses who have signed up to the Doncaster Promise, including activity through partners by April 2021.

• Work with the Membership Department to launch an Educator membership package for the start of September 2021.

• Ensure all activity within the department has a minimum of 95% customer satisfaction rate of good or above and is delivered in line with contracted outputs and timescales.

• Support the Enterprise Coordinators to achieve their contracted outputs.

• Additional KPIs and tasks may be agreed and added from time to time according to business needs

Signed (Job Holder): _________________________________ Date: __________

Signed (Line Manager) : ______________________________ Date: __________

Please return a signed copy to the HR Representative and retain one for your information.

This description is a general statement of required major duties and responsibilities performed on a regular and continuous basis. It does not exclude other duties as assigned

Doncaster Chamber Vision, Values and Behaviours

Our Vision: “To be the best Chamber of Commerce in the UK.”

Our Values and Behaviours:

1. Empowered: “We have the freedom and confidence to use our own initiative and have trust in others.”

• We are accountable, responsible and own our decisions

• We embrace challenge, feedback and enjoy learning

2. Helpful: “We listen to peoples’ needs to make a positive difference with meaningful interactions.”

• We are friendly, approachable and always show willingness

• We listen actively to provide tailored solutions and great service

3. Meaningful Collaboration: “We work with others to achieve shared goals.”

• We add value to the people we work with by sharing our knowledge and skills

• We welcome the opportunity to learn from others

4. Credible: “We have an excellent reputation achieved through our people and demonstrated by our accreditations.”

• We act with courage to honour our commitments

• We proactively seek development opportunities to enhance our knowledge

5. Belief: “We believe in ourselves, our members, our partners and our borough”

• We use positive and open communication

• We respect and have confidence in others and ourselves

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