NCS - Operations Manager - (South West)

We’re currently seeking a talented individual to join our amazing National Careers Service team as an Operations Manager.
You’ll need to be an exemplar leader, applying a range of management and leadership skills to optimise positive performance. You’ll be able to inspire, motivate and lead teams to achieve high-performance.
You’ll also develop, embed and manage key relationships with subcontractors and partners delivering the ‘National Careers Service’ throughout the South West
However, we aren’t always looking for someone who ticks every single box we’re looking for someone who has commercial acumen and has a high level of initiative and motivation
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £56,000 to £60,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Health Insurance Allowance
• Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
• Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
• Refer a Friend Scheme
  Interested? There’s an easy to apply route below to upload your CV!
  If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 208282 .
  Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.
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  Location:South West
  Contract: Permanent
  Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm
  Closing Date: 19 April 2024

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the National Careers Service in your area, with full accountability to deliver to contractual performance requirements and achieving budgetary expectations.
• Responsibility for ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and all contractual requirements for delivery of your contract in your geographical area are met and/or exceeded.
• Lead, inspire, motivate, and coach your teams to ensure that an excellent level of quality and compliance with contractual and accrediting bodies standards is achieved.
• Managing Profit and Loss reports and monthly financial forecasting.
• Representing Seetec as a major CIAG provider at events, speaking at conferences, seminars, and workshops

For full job description follow the link: Operations Manager

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience in delivering high performance outputs on a range of contracts via geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience of delivering payment by results contracts and services to meet rigorous contractual and quality standards.
• Experience in a senior operational management capacity.

Desirable

• Experience of Ofsted framework, inspections and requirements
• Experience of using management information to drive Continuous Improvement.
• Experience of successful delivery of employability and skills programmes.
• Understanding of the skills industry and the challenges faced in the employment market for newly unemployed people who may not have searched for work for many years.
• Full driving licence to enable deployment across a number of teams, according to need

Additional Information

INTERVENTIONS ALLIANCE is the Justice and Social Care division of Seetec, delivering tailored support to participants across a range of contracts, including as CFO Activity Hubs, Education, Training and Employment (ETE), Accommodation, Personal Wellbeing and Approved Premises. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to build a better future, regardless their past choices or the challenges they face.
We are committed to combining our knowledge, skills and talents across the justice and social care sectors to deliver services and interventions that overcome the barriers that hold people back from living more fulfilled lives. Ultimately, our aim is to equip individuals with the necessary skills needed to desist from offending, successfully reintegrate into to their local communities and address barriers to work.
Interventions Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
You will be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Seetec - Interventions Alliance support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under” About us”
Interventions Alliance is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.