Location: Graylingwell Chapel, Graylingwell Park, Chichester, PO19 6BZ
Hours: 40 per week – initial 6-month contract
Salary: £30k FTE
Performance related bonus and profit share
An opportunity has arisen to build on the success of the business and develop it further for the coming year. The role will be to manage all aspects of the centre and team. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who can lead a team, develop the centre and be a friendly face to deliver excellence to our valued customers across our amazing space at The Chapel at Graylingwell Park. With strong financial acumen, you will have the ability to make commercial decisions, and the expertise to assess and develop the venue’s offerings to ensure the organisation is exceeding customer expectation, whilst meeting its’ targets. Personable with excellent communications skills.
The purpose and scope of this role is to ensure the smooth running of the café, events, and activities at Graylingwell Chapel. The Centre Manager will be employed by Connecting Spaces and line managed by the directors. We are looking for an experienced Manager to join our established team to start as soon as possible. The successful candidate will enjoy the challenge of planning a variety of centre management including F&B management, events and activities and will be motivated by the organising an event from confirmation to event completion. The events held in the Chapel range from corporate events, such as networking and workshops, to community events, such as comedy and music nights, to private events, such as weddings and birthday parties.
The role will be responsible for:
- The day-to-day operation of The Chapel at Graylingwell Park
- Focus on increasing sales and profitability
- Produce and present financial reports and forecasts.
- Prepare budgets and reports.
- Evaluate performance and productivity
- Track, analyse and control the costs associated with the venue.
- Effectively recruit, train, and retain employees to ensure that the organisations functions as efficiently as possible, whilst at the same time as making it a great place to work.
- Meet the organisations’ health and safety and other statutory obligations
- Develop and maintain an effective sales and marketing strategy to promote the products, services and events of the organisation to the wider community.
- Maintain relationships with customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
Person Profile.
- Proactivity and ability to work on own initiative
- Focuses on the needs of the customer
- Flexibility
- Innovative thinking
- Open and honest approach in meeting deliverables
- Willingness to challenge
- Commitment to continuous development
- Enquiring and analytical mind with a growth mindset
Key skill set.
- Experience of preparing monthly and quarterly reports for Payroll
- Excellent system and software skills
- Ability to learn new systems and software quickly and robustly
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
- Balancing workload to ensure all deadlines are met
- Excellent numerical skills
- Trust / Integrity and honesty
- Excellent communication skills – verbally / written / face to face with clients
- Excel / Word /PowerPoint knowledge
- Self-starter and can work autonomously – role will require long periods of working without supervision
- Strong Decision Support Capabilities
- Willingness to learn
- Be able to think through problems in a pragmatic manner
- Able to juggle several key priorities across several projects at the same time
- Know when to ask for assistance
- Understanding of HR processes
- Adaptable
Top 6 months Accountabilities
- Recruit staff to meet the roles required
- To assist in growing and developing of the business
- To manage the smooth running of the business and the delivery of reporting of progress to the Directors
- To deliver greater opportunity for profit
This job description is not to be taken as a completely exhaustive list of duties and it may be reviewed in the light of changing needs and developments. Any changes will be fully discussed with the post holder. The post holder may be required to carry out other duties appropriate to the seniority and scope of the post.
To apply please send an up-to-date CV and cover letter to clare@chichestercdt.org.uk or call 01243 537526 by the closing date of 29th March 2024 at 5pm
