Job Title: Assistant Manager

Reporting to: Manager

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Ethnic Enable, 39 Napiershall Street, Glasgow

Salary: £20,001- £25,000 pa

Interview: Interviews will be held on Monday September 12th

Main Purpose:

This position is to provide coordination and operational management duties to Ethnic Enable’s core project areas. In addition, the post holder will have proven experience and skills of working with disabled individuals (preferably disabled children and young people) within ME communities, their carers and families in Glasgow and the surrounding area in order to improve access to EE services for BME clients and address barriers to engagement by mainstream communities.

Background

Ethnic Enable was created in 2000 to help minority ethnic (ME) (including those from asylum seeker and refugee communities) disabled people and their carers achieve a better quality of life by improving access to educational, employment, social welfare, health leisure, recreational and cultural opportunities. The Management team has recently identified the potential to expand service delivery, engage in greater collaboration across projects and recognises an opportunity to build more robust processes as well as improving our management capacity and scoping future capacity requirements.

We urgently need to appoint an experienced Assistant Manager who will assist the Manager to co-ordinate our work more effectively, review our systems and processes and embed new project management procedures to improve efficiency, collaboration and shared learning across project teams.

Expected Outcomes

• EE is equipped to operate more smoothly as a whole organisation

• Operational plans and decisions are based on effective capacity planning

• There is a measurable improvement in the culture and practice of effective project planning throughout the organisation.

Closing Date: 8th September 2011 at 5pm.

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