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.............................................................................................................................................Job Opportunity: Social Enterprise Hub and Business Development Manager for Action ActonThe purpose of the post is to:
(i) develop Action Acton’s business workspace as a business and social enterprise hub to ensure maximum occupancy and revenue;
(ii) generate income from social enterprises, tenders / contracts and other funding opportunities;
(iii) secure support from corporate sector and business.
Location : The Doughnut Factory, 10 Warple Mews, Warple Way, Acton W3 ORF
Responsible for: Operations and daily running of the Hub Project, administrative, sessional and other staff and volunteers.
The job can be carried out on a full time or part time basis.
Salary: up to 40K (includes performance related pay; pro rata for part time) plus benefits.
Background: Action Acton
Action Acton is an expanding West London charity, Limited Liability Company and Social Enterprise. This post will play a key role in achieving our enterprise and income generation objectives and is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual with commitment, motivation and high levels of initiative and business acumen.
Action Acton’s core objective is to “promote economic and community regeneration in Acton, Ealing and adjoining West London boroughs”. We currently work across 3 west London boroughs –Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow.
Action Acton’s key objectives are to:
1. Help disadvantaged, Unemployed individuals secure Employment
2. Help disadvantaged individuals improve literacy, numeracy and basic IT skills.
3. Help people start up in business and social enterprise.
4. Provide enterprise workspace premises (the Doughnut Factory) for startup businesses
and social enterprises.
5. Assist community and economic regeneration by setting up and developing social
enterprises e.g. Acton Street Market, South Acton Wellbeing Centre
6. Develop Action Acton so it becomes a financially sustainable charity and social
enterprise.
Action Acton works in partnership with other charities and organisations, local authorities and
private and public sector bodies. Action Acton currently employs 22 staff and 12 volunteers and operates in 6 premises providing a range of services to help people in need - particularly disadvantaged, unemployed individuals. Action Acton generates over 80% of its annual income of approximately £1.5 million through winning and delivering public service contracts.
Action Acton is in an exciting period of transformation. A key objective is to increase different sources of income, including income from the business enterprise hub (the Doughnut Factory), surpluses from existing and new social enterprises and business ventures and other sources of funding.
This post is part funded by Transforming Local Infrastructure which the Big Fund is delivering on behalf of the Office for Civil Society, Cabinet Office.
How to apply
Closing date is Monday 4th June 2012 with interviews the week of 11th June.
Complete Action Acton application form. Pay particular attention to describing how you meet each aspect of the Job specification, Qualifications and Experience.
Return completed application form by post or e mail to:
Patsy Bholdhoo, Office manager
Action Acton
16-18 Crown Street,
London W3 8SB
Tel: 0208 993 9605
e mail:
info@actionacton.comFurther information about Action Acton can be found on
www.actionacton.com;
www.thedoughnutfactory.co.uk;
www.actonmarket.co.uk.
.............................................................................................................................................Ogilvy & Mather Idea Shops – Wednesday 27th-Thursday 28th JuneSince 2010, Ogilvy & Mather UK has been running regular Idea Shops - a pop up event where experts from across the Ogilvy group volunteer their own time to give away free advice and expertise to small businesses, community projects and charities. It’s our way of giving back whilst doing what we do best. This summer the Idea Shop will be at the Marketing Week Live event at Olympia from Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th June. The theme for this year's Idea Shop will be behavioural change, with experts from our new #ogilvychange practice giving simple ideas to help change human behaviours.
Interested businesses and organisations need to register for a consultation at
www.ideashop.ogilvy.co.uk.
Each consultation will last approximately an hour and a half. Limited appointments are available so please urge people to register ASAP. If you, or any interested parties, have any questions, please email
katie.hobson@ogilvy.com or
elaine.cameron@ogilvy.com. More information about Ogilvy & MatherUK can be found
www.ogilvy.co.uk.
Business in the Community have launched arc: building better business, a Business in the Community initiative which supports social enterprises by providing them with free, expert advice to help them grow.
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