Centre Manager - SCTC Raleigh

MSSC; Torpoint; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An established charity is seeking a Centre Manager to oversee operations at a maritime training centre. This role involves managing staff, delivering impactful training, and ensuring a safe and engaging environment for young cadets. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in centre management, experience working with youth, and a commitment to fostering a culture of safety and inclusivity. Join a vibrant organization dedicated to inspiring young people through nautical adventure and lifelong learning, while enjoying generous benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme

Season Ticket Loan

51 days annual leave

Life assurance (4x salary)

Private medical insurance

Pension (up to 10% employer contribution)

Wellbeing portal and EAP

Employee development opportunities

National staff conference

Qualifications

• Experience managing a centre and day-to-day operations.
• Strong training and instructional skills with youth.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-quality training and impactful experiences.
• Ensure safety and supervision of cadets at the centre.

Skills

Centre Management

Training Delivery

Business Planning

Youth Engagement

Budget Management

Job description

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Location: HMS Raleigh, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2PD

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £36,700 gross per annum

Closing Date: 27 May 2025

Interviews: 3 June 2025

Are you a Centre Manager looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals - and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people - including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Centre Manager to join our team.
About the role

We are seeking a Centre Manager who will manage the day-to-day operations of the cadet training centre based and operated from HMS Raleigh. This includes managing the Training Support Officer, Chief Instructor and the training throughput both planning and delivery, quality assurance seeking continual improvement in all that we do.

Our safety culture is critical, and this is focused on supporting volunteers so they can deliver safe, enjoyable yet challenging training to young people across the Royal Navy Cadet Forces. This along with responsibility for the material state and financial performance of the centre, as required by MSSC and in accordance with its policies and regulations.

The manager of the SCTC is responsible for ensuring the training centre is run in a manner appropriate for the residential training of young people in accordance with the MSSC's approach to the provision of national training. Our training centre is hosted within HMS RALEIGH, and it is essential that the Centre Manager maintains a professional and collaborative relationship with all appropriate departments within HMS RALEIGH.
Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of high-quality training, creating a valuable and impactful experience.
• Ensure that best practise in accordance with the NGB guidelines.
• Deliver highly impactful training courses to cadets and volunteers.
• Lead the planning process for the training centre, ensuring training is scheduled in line the national training model and against the defined training needs.
• Ensure that all visiting groups and their staff are fully briefed on the Centre's policies and procedures and that there is adequate supervision of Cadets and young people at the centre, so as to discharge his/her duty of care for them.

Requirements

• Experience of managing a centre including day to day operational matters along with business planning
• Experience of delivery against targets
• Experience of working with young people
• Excellent training and instructional ability
• Experience of managing output against budget and planed targets

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack

If you are interested in this role, please apply now!

Benefits

• Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• 51 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
• Private medical insurance
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
• National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise.

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Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.