| Organisation: | Challenge for Change |
| Salary: | £37,000 pro rata |
| Location: | South England |
| Hours: | Either |
| Position type: | Paid |
| Contract: | Fixed Term Contract |
| Closing date: | Wed 23 January 13 |
| Website: | www.challengeforchange.com |
| Contact name: | Thomas Stokell |
| Contact email: | work-with-us@challengeforchange.com |
Are you looking for a role that you can enjoy and feel good about? We’re looking for switched-on, friendly and confident people who can work with us to engage businesses and people and show them how easy and fun riding a bike can be.
Challenge for Change is an innovative social marketing agency that specialises in designing and implementing behaviour change programmes that get more people cycling.
We require a number of Project Managers to deliver our best practice ‘Workplace Cycle Challenge’ programme which is to be run in a number of locations across the UK this summer.
The Workplace Cycle Challenge is a fun, free competition between businesses in an area to see which can encourage the most employees to cycle at least once over a three-week period. The organisations and teams that get the highest percentage of staff to ride a bike for just 10 minutes or more will win. The aim of the role is to establish and develop relationships with contacts with local businesses and encourage as many businesses and people to take part as possible.
Each Challenge has a dedicated Project Manager who works on a fixed term contract for between 37 and 80 days for a fixed fee plus a performance based bonus giving a package equivalent of a pro-rata salary of £37,000. The days and time commitments vary from 2 to 5 days a week depending on the project (see each job description on our website for specifics). It maybe possible for the right candidate to take on two Challenge project contracts and work full time across both projects.
We are currently recruiting for projects in Reading, Lewes, Hertfordshire and Maidenhead and are soon to be recruiting in York and Bournemouth. We will also be recruiting for several other projects across the UK in February and March 2013.
Roles and Responsibilities
The primary roles and responsibilities of this role are to:
- Act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners, developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports.
- Encourage businesses to register and participate in the Challenge. This will involve: contacting potential businesses by phone and in person (sometimes with warm leads, but cold leads will also need to be contacted and engaged); giving presentations; meeting with relevant staff and selling in the Challenge concept; running media stunts; distributing flyers to bike shops, on cycle paths and on parked bikes; promotion at local events etc.
- Contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the Challenge externally to their networks.
- Source and manage sponsored incentives and prizes.
- Identify suitable Champions within participating businesses, develop effective workings relations with them and provide on-going support so that they can promote the Challenge effectively internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the Challenge.
- Deliver registration packs to Champions at registered businesses before the Challenge starts and brief all Champions.
- Provide excellent customer service to all participants and workplace Champions.
- Plan and run events and ‘try-a-bike’ sessions at participating businesses or in central locations to provide access to bikes and facilitate participant involvement in the Challenge, particularly by new cyclists.
- Contact and deliver prizes to the Challenge winners.
- Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the Challenge e.g. collection of case studies, monitoring numbers at events.
- Carry out any other duties defined by the Operations Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the Challenge.
- Encourage businesses to register and participate in the Challenge. This will involve: contacting potential businesses by phone and in person (sometimes with warm leads, but cold leads will also need to be contacted and engaged); giving presentations; meeting with relevant staff and selling in the Challenge concept; running media stunts; distributing flyers to bike shops, on cycle paths and on parked bikes; promotion at local events etc.
- Contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the Challenge externally to their networks.
- Source and manage sponsored incentives and prizes.
- Identify suitable Champions within participating businesses, develop effective workings relations with them and provide on-going support so that they can promote the Challenge effectively internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the Challenge.
- Deliver registration packs to Champions at registered businesses before the Challenge starts and brief all Champions.
- Provide excellent customer service to all participants and workplace Champions.
- Plan and run events and ‘try-a-bike’ sessions at participating businesses or in central locations to provide access to bikes and facilitate participant involvement in the Challenge, particularly by new cyclists.
- Contact and deliver prizes to the Challenge winners.
- Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the Challenge e.g. collection of case studies, monitoring numbers at events.
- Carry out any other duties defined by the Operations Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the Challenge.
Person Specification
The Project Manager will be a friendly people person who is excellent at building corporate relationships and capable of presenting and selling the Challenge professionally face to face. You will be an enthusiastic, quality driven self-starter with a can-do attitude and a structured approach to work. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong sales and presentation skills
- Strong organisational skills, with a target-orientated approach
- Experience in project management
- Dedicated ‘make it happen’ attitude
- Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels
- Confident to work independently
- Knowledge and ability to cycle safely
- IT literate.
- Strong sales and presentation skills
- Strong organisational skills, with a target-orientated approach
- Experience in project management
- Dedicated ‘make it happen’ attitude
- Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels
- Confident to work independently
- Knowledge and ability to cycle safely
- IT literate.
How to apply
A big part of this role involves engaging people and businesses and selling them on the idea of taking part in the Cycle Challenge. One of the quickest ways that we can assess your suitability for this role, and one of the quickest ways that you can apply for it, is for your to submit a 60-90 second long video telling us about yourself, your experience and why you think you would be perfect for the role. Please also include where you are based and when you can start.
You can upload the video onto youtube (or similar) or email it to work-with-us@challengeforchange.com (see the individual project job descriptions on our website for submission deadlines).
After we have watched your video and get an idea of your suitability for the role, we will email out an application form to complete. Once we have reviewed the application forms there will be an interview for short-listed candidates.
If you’d like to apply but you’re unable to make a video, please email us and we will email you an application form.
In Summary
This is a fun and challenging role and the right candidate will enjoy the process of engaging organisations and people in the Cycle Challenge and showing them how easy and fun riding a bike can be.
To find out more about the role you can download a full job description for our website – www.challengeforchange.com/awesome-jobs
If you think you would be a good match for this role, we hope you enjoy making your video and we look forward to hearing from you.
Have fun!
The Challenge for Change Team
www.challengeforchange.com
