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Centre for Alternative Technology Job Description | | | Job Title: | Operations Team: Trading and Marketing Co-ordinator | Hours: | 40 hours per week 5 days over 7 including some weekends andevening work | Responsible to: | Directions Team | Responsible for: | Permanent, volunteer and contract staff as required | Status: | This is a permanent post subject to satisfactory completionof a six month probationary period | Salary: | £17,485 per annum | Scope:CAT consists of a Charity and a plc. However, it manages its operations on a co-operative basis, with consensus decision-making at its core.CAT’s management structure includes two main teams – the (mainly elected) Directions Team, responsible for developing strategy and policy and answerable to the staff body, and the Operations Team, who are jointly responsible to the Directions Team for delivering the strategy within the policy framework.Legal responsibilities, including those for financial matters and Health and Safety, are devolved to the Operations Team from CAT Charity’s Trustees and CAT plc’s Directors.CAT’s management structure and approach to management issues is laid out in our Constitution. This role is a new post that is part of the Operations Team. As Trading Coordinator, the post holder is responsible for the co-ordination of the Trading Department Group (referred to below as “the group”) including the Shop, Restaurant, Mail Order, Quarry Café, Quarry Shop, Consultancy and The Visitor Centre (including Gardens, Displays and Visitor Centre Marketing). As Marketing Coordinator, the post holder is responsible for coordinating marketing across these departments and the rest of the organisation.This job description will be reviewed 11 months after appointment, in consultation with the post holder and the Directions Team Duties:Operations Team Common Functions· To be a member of the Operations Team, liaise with other members of the team and attend regular formal meetings to co-ordinate the delivery of CAT’s strategy, all in accordance with the Operations Team Terms of Reference as agreed from time to time.· To work in line with the principles stated in CAT’s Constitution.· To co-ordinate budgets for the departments listed above· To foster a strong team and to effectively delegate responsibilities to those in their team.· To work with the rest of the Operations and Directions Teams to produce a combined annual and longer-term budget and work plan for the group, in accordance with priorities agreed with the Directions Team · To co-ordinate staffing for the group, including ensuring job descriptions are up-to-date and taking part in recruitment panels· To ensure compliance with all CAT policies within their group· To provide advice and input to the strategy process and policy development, especially where it impacts on the group’s departments; to ensure that the group’s strategies contribute to the overall organisational strategy as developed by the Directions Team· To line manage staff leading the group’s departments, including setting annual targets, approval of work plans, annual job appraisals and dealing with any disciplinary matters that may arise (the latter in consultation with CAT’s HR department)· To ensure that line management activities are carried out within the group, following CAT’s employment policies and in line with the management ethos as laid out in CAT’s Constitution.· To co-ordinate projects that cut across the group to ensure that they are delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner; to liaise with other groups and departments to deliver organisation-wide projects as required
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