Regional Coordinator

Regional Coordinator – South East Region

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We are excited to invite a candidate to apply for the position of Regional Coordinator – South East Region on BITCI’s Education team.

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is a non-profit organisation specialising in advice and guidance to leading companies on corporate responsibility and corporate community involvement. We work with hundreds of companies and schools all over Ireland to create mutually beneficial and lasting partnerships. www.bitc.ie 

The purpose of the role is to coordinate existing partnerships between primary and post-primary schools and their partnering companies to deliver one of our suites of education programmes. 

JOB SUMMARY  

• Part-time (14 hours per week) remote working, but the candidate must be based in the South-East Region (counties of Waterford/ Wexford) 
• Salary Band 10 (€34,949 -€41,500 FTE) Pro-rata up to 14 hours per week. This role could grow in the future, potentially up to 21 hours per week. 
• Requires a minimum of 3 years working in a business or education environment. 
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of the Irish business landscape, experience of managing relationships with senior executives and a broad understanding of the education sector in Ireland. 
• Some flexibility in spreading the hours across the week will be needed. 

Please note that you must hold current eligibility to work in Ireland to be considered for the role. 

Benefits offered: 

• Annual leave: 23 days annual leave per year pro rata, rising to 26 days after 1 year, 
• PRSA: Option to join the Company’s PRSA scheme after six months’ service, 
• Remote/Flexible/hybrid working practices, 
• Career growth – We want you to grow with us, 
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme including virtual GP visits, 
• Cycle to work scheme; including climbing back your millage,  
• TaxSaver commuter scheme, 
• Supports to set-up home office and provision of all necessary IT infrastructure for remote working, 
• Volunteer days – We encourage you to give back to the community, 
• Did we mention great teammates? 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage school partnerships on our primary and post primary programmes
• Contribute to the development of the delivery plan for programmes and implement accordingly;
• Provide a professional service by leading and facilitating the existing partnerships and provide a high standard of support to ensure each partnership is of a very high quality;
• Liaise with the school principal, school and company coordinators and facilitate the planning of annual programmes;
• Measuring impact - ensure schools and companies complete the evaluations in a timely manner and issue an individual evaluation report to each partnership
• To prepare and implement an annual personal development plan;
• Recruit businesses and schools and promote all BITCI initiatives and programmes to ensure continuance of programmes in targeted schools and expansion of our  programmes;
• Manage expectations of companies and schools;
• Utilize existing resources as efficiently as possible to meet programme objectives;
• Effectively communicate relevant, accurate and timely information to Manager, Programme Coordinators, Head of Education and the wider team as per the team’s annual communications plans;
• Use IT as a cost-effective method of communication, continuously updating and improving your skills. Our programmes are currently operating by virtual delivery and upskilling is required on an ongoing basis.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• To contribute to establishing best practice in the work of the Education Programmes in BITCI;
• To liaise with BITC staff and to be familiar with BITC programmes and events
• To research and support new programme developments
• To be familiar with current developments in the business and education sectors
• To effectively promote and publicise the work through social media (Twitter)
• To actively contribute to a healthy, safe, secure and productive working environment
• To actively promote equality of opportunity, anti-discriminatory practice, diversity, individual rights and choice in all aspects of your work.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education/ Qualification/ Knowledge

• Minimum of 3 years working in a business or education environment
• Broad understanding of business operations (Sales and Marketing, Finance, HR, IT)
• Knowledge of Irish business landscape
• Highly proficient in MS Office applications.

Experience

• Experience of managing relationships with senior executives and delivering presentations to a high level audience
• Experience of managing conflicting expectations/ facilitating relationships of parties in a partnership scenario
• Experience of Project Management.

Skills/ Personal Attributes

• Planning
• Organisational
• Interpersonal
• Communication
• Leadership
• Time Management
• Influencing skills
• Facilitation skills
• Presentation skill

Desired Qualifications and Knowledge:

• CRM Database (MS Dynamics or similar)
• Train the Trainer qualification/ experience of delivering training
• Literacy/numeracy enhancement and or reading support for children
• Experience of programme evaluation and impact assessment
• Social media experience.

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties. Other ad-hoc duties may be assigned from time to time, in line with the overall organisational objectives of BITCI.