Hybrid Role
Introduction:
The Royal Naval Sailing Association (RNSA) is looking to appoint an Outreach Manager to provide the key link with families of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Maritime Reserves and to encourage their participation in sailing. A major part of this new role is to help initiate and facilitate an exciting new youth sailing project.
RNSA is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) based in Gosport, Hampshire with specific responsibilities to the Royal Navy (RN) for the delivery of the sport of sailing. Its charitable Object focuses on improving military efficiency through encouraging the participation of military personnel in sport. RNSA has 6 staff, a range of volunteers and over 5000 members, which along with a range of trusted partners support this endeavour.
The individual: Are you an enthusiastic people-person with a good understanding of the military and outreach work? We are looking for a collaborative, enthusiastic, self-starter to manage our engagement and relationship with Naval families. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing team and a Service Sports Association with huge ambition to broaden its work to encourage sailing across the naval community and in so doing improve the military efficiency of the Royal Navy and life skills of young people. Extensive sailing knowledge and expertise is not essential but an enthusiasm for participation in sport is
Purpose:
The successful applicant will form an integral part of a dynamic and responsive team that values its strong links with the Royal Navy and the wider military community. Their primary purpose will be to initiate a new and exciting project funded by Greenwich Hospital (the Royal Navy’s oldest charity) to reach out to naval families across the country and attract them to take up the offer of free RYA start sailing courses for their children. This will require significant engagement with naval charities, community groups, ships’ families’ organisations and families themselves. They will work alongside RNSA’s Youth Sailing Coordinator who is responsible for the delivery side of the project. The role will also require the day-to-day management of the assigned budget and close liaison with RNSA’s Financial Director as well as capturing the necessary data to understand the effectiveness and impact of the project. The work with families will help support wider RNSA projects in this area and form part of the overall role
Benefits: Key benefits include:
- 30 days annual holiday plus UK Public Holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- YOUTH SAILING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Registered Charity No 1835622
- Remote and flexible working.
- A supportive, friendly and forward-thinking work environment.
Starting date: January 2024 subject to negotiation.
Key Functions: The key functions of the role are: - Initiate and lead the outreach work to attract children of naval families to participate in the RNSA Youth Sailing Project to deliver free RYA start sailing courses.
- Develop a strategy and identify suitable and effective ways to make the project a success.
- Manage the annual budget allocated to the project.
- Market the RNSA ‘offer’ to the naval community.
- Work collaboratively and effectively with RNSA staff, partners and stakeholders.
- Provide an informed point of contact for naval families and their young people.
- Assist families to engage with the sailing and help develop follow on pathways.
- Develop information and guidance material to support applicants’ understanding of the RNSA and RYA.
- Develop relationships and partnerships as required to meet the RNSA charitable Object.
Key Responsibilities
In meeting these roles, the post holder’s key responsibilities will be to: - Draft the RNSA outreach plan and associated strategies.
- Identify extent and location of demand. Understand potential to scale up.
- Create marketing information and a network to reach out to families.
- Engage with families, beneficiaries, volunteers and stakeholders to promote and subsequently manage the various programmes.
- Work with Youth Sailing Coordinator, RYA and Andrew Simpson Foundation and other partners to optimise delivery including the successful management of throughput.
- Administer the allocated budget.
- Produce appropriate support material.
- Help applicants to understand and engage with RNSA and the opportunities available.
- Be an ambassador for RNSA and more broadly sport in the RN.
- Disseminate advice and guidance to applicants to the Programme as appropriate.
- Enable collaboration between applicants, key stakeholders and other providers.
- Identify early trends and best practice in programme delivery in order to help develop protocols that will enable greater impact.
- Organise meetings and workshops where these would be helpful.
- Work with stakeholders to keep all parties abreast of progress, including the tracking of relevant KPIs.
Skills required - About you
The successful candidate will be able to work independently, be experienced at developing and managing relationships, understand the challenges facing Service families and enjoy a passion for encouraging sport. We know the skills we need for this role, and we are open minded about where you might have acquired or demonstrated these. Let us know in your supporting statement why you believe you would excel.
We are looking for candidates who are: - Experienced in working as part of a small, busy and passionate team.
- Able to organise and prioritise a busy workload whilst working closely with stakeholders in a highly collaborative way.
- Excellent communicators with the skills and ability to build relationships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including families, volunteers, commercial providers and other RNSA staff.
- Digitally literate. As a significant element of the work will require remote and independent working you will need to be comfortable with the tools essential to remote working such as shared files, video meetings etc.
- Understanding of how a charity like ours supports its community.
- Financial management skills to a level able to oversee the day-to-day running of a significant budget.
- Able to confidently and skilfully communicate and market the various sailing offers to the naval community.
Essential: - Experience of managing an outreach programme.
- Understanding of Service families and supporting communities.
- A sense of humour, good inter-personal and communication skills.
- Strong work ethic with service orientated approach.
- Ability to work within a small team.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft software.
- Awareness of the Armed Forces and specifically the Royal Navy.
- Ability to use key forms of media, including social media, to communicate and underpin effective outreach activity to support the Association’s outputs.
- Experience of budget management.
Desirable: - Knowledge of sailing.
- Knowledge of other Naval charities.
- Experience of working with Xero.
- Experience of working in the charity sector
For further information or to express interest, please get in touch with the Employment & Education team via this email address or on 023 9298 1920.
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