Lead for Local Economies and Enterprise

Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway; Dumfries; Hybrid; GBP 34,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading organization in Dumfries and Galloway seeks a passionate individual to support local economies and social enterprises. This hybrid role involves leadership, collaboration, and capacity building within the third sector, ensuring impactful community development.

Qualifications

• Experience leading programmes in the third sector.
• Understanding of local economies and social enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver plans for capacity building in the third sector.
• Lead a team providing resources and advice on policy and practice.
• Manage relationships with various organizations to support the sector.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Organization

Job description

Where you’ll work

Hybrid – with a base at our Dumfries or Stranraer office

Contract type and hours

28 hours, flexible

Full-time equivalent salary (FTE is 35 hours)

£33063

We are looking for a colleague passionate about supporting collaboration, developing capacity and highlighting the role and impact of the third sector in nurturing and developing local economies and enterprise. You will provide oversight and leadership of our work across the building of strong local economies, development of local enterprise and cross-portoflio working for a wellbeing economy, developing relationships with local anchor organisations like the local authority and South of Scotland Enterprise, with communities and across our sector.

What You'll Do

• Develop and deliver plans to support capacity building for third sector organisations across Dumfries and Galloway in areas of economic development and enterprise.
• Lead a small team in the provision of resources and advice for the sector on key themes of policy, practice, research and the further development of an economy and enterprise online hub.
• Oversee the coordination and support of the Social Enterprise Dumfries and Galloway (SEDG) network.
• Develop and manage relationships and partnership working with a variety of organisations to support the role of, and capacity within, the third sector, including the role of the sector and communities in economic investment and development decisions.
• With partners, support the understanding of Community Wealth Building, the importance of local economies and the role of social enterprises.
• Promote shared learning about Community Wealth Building and how we explore the pillars of CWB to benefit local people and place, working alongside CLES and SoSE.
• Ensure the appropriate allocation of resources to maximise impact, including through high quality tools, advice and routes to signposting to sources of expert help so that our advice for the sector is consistent and of high quality.

More about you

• You will be able to demonstrate your experience of leading programmes in or including the third sector
• You will be able to show your understanding of and interest in the development of local economies and/or social enterprise in the third sector
• You will be able to show your approach to effective and compassionate leadership of people, achieving outcomes and demonstrating impact.
• You will bring a keen interest in building and sharing knowledge, particularly in relation to good practice and to new policy.
• You will be able to show examples of effective application of key skills, including organisation and planning, problem solving and communications.
• You will have had experience of building effective professional relationships inside and outside of your organisation.
• You may have had experience of facilitating or leading effective collaboration across sectors.

To find out more about the role, working with us and to apply, visit our website https://jobs.tsdg.org.uk/vacancies/lead-local-economies-enterprise/