GoodGym is a community of runners that combine our exercise with running. We connect runners, or those who want to get fit, with physical tasks which benefit their community including extensive work supporting older people. Backed by the Cabinet Office, Nesta and the Big Lottery GoodGym has been cited by leading think-tanks and national media as a leading innovation in health and wellbeing and is described as an important innovation by the Prime Minister. GoodGym is expanding to every city in the UK, its central office is in Somerset House, London.
January and February are busy months for GoodGym with multiple new area launches and high levels of attendance. This role will support the central operations team throughout this time. You will work closely with the operations team to plan and deliver new and existing activities across the UK.
GoodGyms seeks a
Operations Support Coordinator
Details:
Contract Type: January - February 2018 (with the potential for extension)
Hours: 3 - 5 days (22.5 - 37.5 hours) per week. The role may involve sporadic evening work attending GoodGym launch events across the UK.
Salary: £21-24k pro rata
Location: Based at GoodGym, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA
Accountable to: Partnership Manager
For part time we would require a minimum of 22.5 hours a week, we would be interested to hear from people wishing take the role in a part or full time capacity.
Primary Responsibilities:
Launch support
- Assist the central team with the planning and execution of new area launches in 2018
- Oversee administration associated with launches
- Recruitment of trainers, listing job adverts, promoting role to local area, arranging interview days
- Training of trainers and run leaders: arranging training days
- Promotion of launch events through email, social media, press and local/national partners
- Coordination of launch night. Ensuring successful new area launch events through detailed planning and delivery
- Working with funders and trainers post-launch to ensure momentum continues
Partnership support
- Liaising with existing partners across UK, ensuring they are engaged and aware of GoodGym activities
- Preparing monitoring reports for operating areas
- Assisting with the planning and delivery of partnership events: conferences, talks and races.
- Responding to runner and partnership queries through the main GoodGym email inbox
Operational support
- Supporting GoodGym areas to develop and grow by monitoring performance of existing areas.
- Responding to general enquiries.
- Assistance with the recruitment and training of key GoodGym volunteer roles: Task Force, Run Leaders and Coach Runner Reps.
- Assisting with troubleshooting issues in existing areas
Please note:
This role description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect but rather to clearly define the fundamental purpose, responsibilities and dimensions for the role. In addition to the contents of this role description, employees are expected to undertake any and all other reasonable and related tasks that help achieve the goals of the organisation.
Person Specification
Knowledge:
- An understanding of, or interest in GoodGym and its mission
- Awareness of the challenges operating a remote business model
Skills and abilities
- Excellent verbal communication skills, particularly over the phone
- Excellent written communication skills
- Ability to provide information, advice and assistance appropriately to a wide range of individuals
- Ability to build strong relationships with people from a variety of backgrounds
- Record management skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work from own initiative and as part of a team
- IT literate, particularly with Google Docs, and able to pick up new systems quickly
Experience
- Experience of assisting with project delivery
- Experience of managing relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of GoodGym runs
How to apply:
Please apply with your CV and covering letter to jobs@goodgym.org by 12 noon on Monday the 27th of November 2017 with the subject line "Operations Support".
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