Part Time Community Manager

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for a community based organisation in the Edgbaston area who are seeking a Part Time Community Manager to organise their popular and well know site that has been in the area for a total of 130 years. The role will be 25 hours per week. The role be five hours per day between Monday to Friday (hours to be between 9am to 5pm). Four hours per day will be based on site with a further one hour a day to be working from home.

Duties and tasks will include:

• Taking overall responsibility for day-to-day operations, including Membership, Community events and Financial Administration
• You will manage one direct report
• Organise marketing and events
• Creating eshots
• Being the primary interface between staff/volunteers
• Fostering and supporting community volunteers
• Driving an effective communication strategy with members
• Connecting with the other local institutions e.g. Schools
• Maintain membership records and ensure members’ computerised records are kept up to date
• Prepare members’ accounts, record donations, raise invoices for functions and hirings
• Deal with queries by phone, email or directly in the office
• Instilling a strong ethos/culture of customer/member focused service
• Actively use social media and email as appropriate to promote the organisation and events, including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook and appropriate social networking sites

Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

• Proven experience of people management.

• Demonstrable skills in time management and planning.

• Experience of managing a company or organisation website, including acting as administrator, able to upload articles, photos and edit web pages.

• Experience of e-mail marketing and of using social media including Facebook and other related websites.

• Strong computing skills and substantial experience of using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and intranet-based systems and databases.

• Skilled at delivering a consistently high-quality customer focused service.

Excellent opportunity with a genuinely positive and supportive environment. Immediate start and interview available for the right candidate.