Regional Manager for the Midlands

Are you an entrepreneurial teacher, ready to lead the expansion of Enabling Enterprise in Birmingham and across the Midlands?

Enabling Enterprise is an award-winning social enterprise. Our mission is to ensure that one day, all students leave school equipped with the skills, experiences and aspirations to succeed – beyond just a set of qualifications. We do this through creating innovative educational programmes for schools that introduce new, more enterprising teaching approaches. Our work is reinforced and supported by over 110 top businesses including PwC, Birmingham Airport, Virgin and many others.

This Regional Manager role is a key one in the development of Enabling Enterprise as we look to build on the progress and growth in Birmingham, Nottingham and the wider Midlands over the last four years. We currently have a network of 40 schools and over 10,000 students as well as over 30 business partners in the region, and this new role will be focused on accelerating this growth.

You will be leading a team of three others initially, but we are looking for someone keen to build on our great existing momentum in the region and be excited about growing this team further.

This role needs leadership and management from day one, so evidence of being able to take initiative, make connections, organise and lead others is essential.

Similarly, any business, sales or relationship management experience would also be beneficial.

If you’re looking for your next role and want to help transform education in England, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

(1) Programme Delivery

• Ensuring top quality delivery of programmes to schools in the region by liaising with schools and teachers, organising and delivering teacher training and other specialist support.
• Building strong partnerships with business supporters and working with them to plan and facilitate trips for the students.

(2) Sales & Marketing

• Building up Enabling Enterprise’s profile across the region to support the recruitment of new schools, employer partners, and team members.
• Promoting Enabling Enterprise programmes to new schools across Birmingham,
  Nottingham and the Midlands.
• Recruiting schools to take up our programmes to fulfil our ambitions to reach more students each year, and modelling good practice to new Education Associates.
• Managing the Midlands team throughout the process of engaging new schools, from initial contact with schools through to confirming the income we need to make the region sustainable.

(3) Management of the Midlands Office and Education Associates

• Provide management for the existing Midlands team of three.
• Over time, recruiting and training new Education Associates to join the team and building a strong office culture.
• Using project management tools to manage activities, and managing workload.
• Building strong relationships with local businesses and with EE Head Office in London.

(4) Training and Quality Assurance

• Ensuring that the delivery of our programmes is to the highest possible standards.
• Supporting the training of Education Associates, as they are recruited, through modelling good practice, observation and feedback, and supporting reflection.

Salary: Up to £40,000 subject to review in 12 months, plus up to 3% matched pension

Working hours: 40 hours per week, although in this senior role flexibility is likely to be important. It is important to be aware that this role involves travel across the West and East Midlands as well as regular visits to the other regions in London and Manchester.

Applications should include a CV and Covering Letter and be sent by email to
jobs@enablingenterprise.org by 9am Monday 7th November.

For more information, visit our website.

Preferred start date is 3rd January but would be flexible for the right candidate.