Regional Coordinator – Mayo and Sligo

1. Reporting to: Assistant Manager
   Responsibilities – The Regional Coordinator will be responsible for:  

• Ensuring that all partnerships and programmes are delivered on time and to a high standard while continually seeking to improve and ensure clear lines of communication are maintained between all relevant partnership parties.
• Promoting all BITCI initiatives and programmes in the region to ensure growth and expansion of our programmes and manage the expectations of companies and schools.
• Utilising existing resources as efficiently as possible to meet programme objectives and to effectively communicate relevant, accurate and timely information to Manager, Programme Coordinators, and the wider team.
• Utilising IT for communication, project management, design and report preparation while continuously updating and improving skills.
• Preparing and implementing an annual personal action and development plan, including being familiar with current developments in the business and education sectors.
• Contributing to establishing best practice in the work of the Education Programmes in BITCI and to research and support new programme developments.
• Liaising with BITC staff and to be familiar with BITC programmes and events
• Actively contributing to a healthy, safe, secure and productive working environment.
• Actively promoting equality of opportunity, anti-discriminatory practice, diversity, individual rights and choice in all aspects of your work.

  Location
  Remote. This role requires regular travel to schools and businesses who are engaged on our education programmes, and occasional travel to the Dublin office. The candidate must be based in County Mayo (ideally) or Sligo, and be prepared to travel to cover a portfolio of school-business partnerships that covers these 2 counties 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Manage school partnerships on our primary and post primary programmes. 
• Contribute to the development of the delivery plan for programmes and implement them 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. 
• Attend schools to deliver and support on the delivery of sessions in schools. While company volunteers deliver most of the sessions, this role requires session delivery – typically at programme start and end. 
• Deliver volunteer training to groups of company volunteers who are participating in our 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. 
• Utilise 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 (typically Twitter and Linked In) 
• 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. 

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.