Operations Support Manager

The Operations Support Manager helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by leading the operational volunteering and support functions across a geographical region. They contribute to the leadership of the region and ensure effective support for all services.

This role will be based on site at either the National Centre or Leamington office, working closely with a team of operational support staff. You’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality.

We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• Business administration qualification or equivalent work-related experience
  Proven experience of managing a team in an administration / service support function.
• Proven track record in managing a team of staff working across multiple sites, to achieve results balancing local needs against national priorities.
• Evidence of dealing with confidential issues sensitively and with total integrity.
• Working in a customer service environment.
• Involvement in leading or closely supporting projects to successful conclusion.
• Experience of managing volunteers / supporters.
• Experience of creating an inclusive work environment for people with a disability.
• Quality management and / or continuous improvement practices.
• Experience of handling budgetary and performance management data.
  

Desirable

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  Project Management / methodology.
• Health & Safety / compliance monitoring experience.
• Experienced with Salesforce and/or CARE CRM systems.
• Experienced in reporting from CRM Databases

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk.

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above. As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

Please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk if you require any support with your application.