Job Description

Job Title: Lead (project manager) for Business Education Skills Training (BEST) Engagement

Reporting To: The Trustees

Location: Wallington / Hybrid

Salary: \xc2\xa345,000 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

PPMA Business Education Skills and Training (PPMA BEST) is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) established in 2014. Our principal purpose is to support employers and encourage more young people to enter and develop a career in engineering within the processing, packaging, robotics, automation and industrial vision supply industries through education, training and support.

A new opportunity to:

• Take a lead in developing the activities of this Charity.
• Publicise and promote technical careers in the industries supported by PPMA.
• Develop and support the activities of the Trust.
• Promote and increase the take up of grants, bursaries and scholarships by ensuring that PPMA members are aware of and apply for the funding available.
• Assist with the formulation of the marketing and development strategy, including an up- to- date social media presence on all the appropriate platforms as well as video and other content for relevant media.
• Co-ordinate training and education with the PPMA Ltd training and education programme

Main Duties

• Promoting, securing applications for, reviewing, and validating applications for grants and bursaries and the Grant Jamieson scholarship
• Ensuring all the appropriate applications for funding are approved by the trustees at the appropriate time.
• Hosting and contributing to activities to promote BEST, its aims and purposes, to PPMA members, potential donors and potential recipients, their teachers, lecturers and trainers (Year 12 upwards).
• Attending careers fairs and other events to promote the opportunities and support available in the industries and sectors supported by PPMA and BEST.
• Exploring the availability of government grants for training.
• Setting up systems to apply for that funding and to help PPMA members to apply for government or other funding to support education and where appropriate.
• Assisting where needed, with the promotion and organisation of STEM days. Liaising with the appointed trainer and helping to provide STEM activities to schools linked to PPMA/BARA and UKIVA members.
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of the BEST website content and style.
• Confirming and promoting a path from apprentice to Chartered Engineer, and helping to publicising the opportunities this offers.
• Directing and assisting the appointed marketing agency to develop and maintain high quality and appropriate marketing material in the appropriate formats.
• Ensuring the PPMA lobbying activities are supported by BEST material and input where appropriate.
• Liaising with and co-operating with other training providers and organisations to provide BEST sponsored recruits with the appropriate education and training at a competitive rate.
• Securing funding from other sources
• Keeping the trustees regularly informed about the activities and developments Staffing

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of grants, bursaries and awards approved.
• Regular, high quality and appropriate social media posts, profile, and traffic
• Amount of additional (non-PPMA) funding secured.
• Number of new STEM support (PPMA member) contacts passed to the STEM-day co-ordinator.
• Creation of events programme in conjunction with PPMA
• Development of a business plan and a longer-term outline plan (3/5 years)
• Quality and usage (hits) on BEST website
• Reporting on the \xe2\x80\x9cmarketplace\xe2\x80\x9d and BEST\xe2\x80\x99s position in it with reference to data and studies available from outside the industry \xe2\x80\x93 general trends, employment figures, benchmarking, etc.

Person Specification:

• Project manager \xe2\x80\x93 able to create, develop oversee and deliver activities and content to students, PPMA members and other stakeholders to a quality and timetable.
• A good communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly developed knowledge of, and interest in engineering, automation, education, and training
• Strong desire to encourage and educate the next generation of industry/automation engineers (technicians/trainees/ employees?)
• Able to source, organise and deliver content for regular social media posts.
• The ability to manage the content, style and delivery of media posts and press releases, articles etc. and report on their reach.
• Ability to influence and assist in the creation of high-quality website and social media content, report on the performance and develop/improve the utility and content.
• Multi-tasker/Completer doer
• Self-motivated

Candidates with the experience and relevant job titles of; Project Management, Project Administrator, Project Estimator, Project Planning, Project Coordinator, Project Director, Project Manager, Project Lead, Lead Project Manager, Contracts Management, Health and Safety, CSCS, First Aid and may also be considered for this role.

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