MARKETING MANAGER | Dorset Chamber

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1 November 2021

MARKETING MANAGER

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

We are seeking a creative and enthusiastic marketing professional to help grow our business. The main purpose of the role is to research and develop marketing and strategies and campaigns for our products and services, implement marketing plans and track results.

Reporting to: Chief Executive

Managing: Marketing Executive

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Contribute information, ideas, and research to develop marketing strategies
Design, and implement marketing plans for each service being offered
Manage and create appropriate content for a variety of channels (including our social media channels)
Deliver within agreed budgets
Track sales data and analyse trends, data, demographics, pricing strategies, and other information that can potentially improve marketing and sales performance
Create and present regular performance reports at board level
Manage our website and e-newsletters
Attends events and meetings as required
Support the production of our monthly business magazine

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Personal skills

Committed to delivering excellence
Pro-active and able to use own initiative
The ability to remain calm under pressure, multi-task, meet deadlines and deliver on time and on-budget
Presentable with a professional manner and attitude and an out-going personality
A strong team player with a hands-on approach
Aptitude for quickly developing good working relationships
Flexibility, with a willingness to be involved with all events and activities, including some out of hours activities

Experience and qualifications

A recognised professional marketing qualification is essential
Proven experience in managing people
Highly experienced in digital marketing
Highly-developed organisational skills
First class communication skills
Strong IT skills including CRM
A strong copywriter, you’ll have a keen eye for detail

Other requirements

Able to travel and attend events and other functions off-site as required
Access to vehicle with valid driving license essential
Will need to be flexible on hours occasionally

WHY WORK FOR US?

Salary up to £32,000 to £35,000 depending on experience
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm, 37.5 hours per week (out of hours work required on request)
Office based
25 days per annum holiday plus Bank holidays
Pension after probation 4% employee, 8% company and death in service (2 times salary)
Occasional sponsored company nights out and Christmas party
Modern, bright office environment
Dress for diary dress code
Tea, coffee and fruit supplied

Apply with CV to: [email protected]

EVENTS COORDINATOR | Dorset Chamber

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EVENTS COORDINATOR

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

To coordinate all Dorset Chamber events and training workshops and also provide support with membership engagement. The primary purpose of the role is events coordination, followed by support with membership engagement.

Reporting to: Head of Finance and Administration

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Event coordination

Working with colleagues, draft and maintain a forward events and training programme (face to face and virtual)
Source appropriate venues and speakers
Promote events through social media channels
Ensure events are delivered within agreed budgets
Seek sponsorship for events
Ensure venues have a health and safety assessment in place
Update events information on the Dorset Chamber website
Attend events in both an organisational and “meet and greet” capacity
Develop a process to gain customer feedback on events
Ensure events are also supported by other Chamber staff
Be the point of contact for events
Monitor event bookings and liaise with marketing staff to promote events and training
Support the development of new innovative events

Support with membership engagement

Regularly communicate with members via telephone and e-mail to raise engagement/ promote use of membership benefits
Monitor engagement levels and work with colleagues to target members not engaging
Contact customers post joining as part of a customer journey
Other support activities as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Personal skills

Committed to delivering excellence
Experience in using social media
Pro-active and able to use own initiative
The ability to remain calm under pressure, multi-task, meet deadlines and achieve targets on-time and on-budget
Presentable with a professional manner and attitude and an out-going personality
A strong team player
Aptitude for quickly developing good working relationships
Flexibility, including some out-of-hours activities
Strong IT skills

Experience and qualifications

Minimum 1 years experience in the management and delivery of events is essential
Highly-developed organisational skills
Excellent customer-service skills, both face-to-face and by telephone/ E-mail
First class written and oral communication skills

Other requirements

Able to travel and attend events and other functions off-site as required
Access to vehicle with valid driving license
Will need to be flexible on hours occasionally

WHY WORK FOR US?

Salary up to £22,000 to £25,000 depending on experience
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm, 37.5 hours per week (out of hours work required on request)
Office based
25 days per annum holiday plus Bank holidays
Pension after probation 4% employee, 8% company and death in service (2 times salary)
Occasional sponsored company nights out and Christmas party
Modern, bright office environment
Dress for diary dress code
Tea, coffee and fruit supplied

Apply with CV to: [email protected]

Support Worker (Day/Night) | The Forum School

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1 November 2021

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Support worker (Day/Night) required by the Forum School

Full time permanent

Hourly rate £10 – £10.40 (£21,840 – £22,713)

For further information and to apply please call or email:

01258 860295

[email protected]

Cleaner Required nr Sherborne Dorset

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1 November 2021

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Reliable, experienced cleaner required.

One full day per week for home in village close to Sherborne Dorset.

Top Rates Payable for the right candidiate

Please send your details to Charlotte at:

[email protected]

Office Cleaner Blandford | Servicemaster Wessex

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1 November 2021

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Office Cleaner Required in Blandford Forum by Servicemaster Wessex

Start time 17.00 (5pm) for 2hrs & 15 mins per day 5 days per week.

£108.88 per week paid monthly + Benefits

To find out more and to apply please call, text or email:

07921 775999

[email protected]

Maintenance Team Members | King’s school Bruton

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1 November 2021

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King’s School Bruton & Hazelgrove School Sparkford would like to hear from experienced maintenance/gerneral builders who would like to join their busy teams.

On offer is year round full time contracts, with and excellent salary with generous on call payments.

To find out more and to apply, please visit:

https://www.kingsbruton.com/about-us/vacancies or https://www.hazelgrove.co.uk/about/staff-vacancies

Or call HR on 01749 814316

Estates Maintenance Workers | Margaret Green

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1 November 2021

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Margaret Green Animal Rescue are recruiting Estates Maintenance workers.

37.5 hours per week £9.50/£10.50 ph dependant on experience

Based at Church Knowle looking after 3 sites & 6 shops.

If you have a good level of skills in general maintenance such as carpentry, plumbing and basic electrics then we would like to hear from you.

For more details please contact the Estates manager: [email protected]

Why I’ve changed my stance on raising National Insurance | Simon Hoare MP

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23 October 2021

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I’d guess that there are not many people in North Dorset who do not know at least one person, a friend or family member perhaps, who is not waiting currently for an operation, scan or some other medical intervention.

I know from my inbox that the waiting lists are growing, and that people are worried. When will they get help? When will their pain be eradicated etc? It is for that reason that the Government had to act to inject extra resource into the NHS to cope with the Covid-generated backlog. I was concerned that we were breaking a manifesto commitment not to increase National Insurance contributions. But it was written in a different, pre-pandemic age. An analogue document for a digital age. Covid has changed
so much. Those who know me know I am no ideological purist. Rather, I plant my flag as a confirmed and proud centre-ground pragmatist.
Following the decades old Tory tradition of finding practical solutions to problems; not hogtied to dogma or ‘little red books’. So, the new money will go to the NHS and hopefully that will help tackle the mountain range like waiting list problem.

‘Flush with money’
But, as a Tory I also know that injecting money into anything, let alone such a vast public service as the NHS, can never be the end in itself. Listening to health commentators it is clear that outputs and productivity go up when money is at its tightest as every ounce of health benefit is squeezed from every
pound. When an organisationis ‘flush with money’ it can often mean that financial rectitude and prudent management go out of the window at worst or take second place at best. We must therefore look to those who control the purse strings to ensure that the maximum benefit can be derived from this windfall cash injection. 150% of our entire GDP could go to health provision and it would still not be enough. Medical science is outpacing public financing. We must focus on productivity and outputs. It is in the patient’s interest to do so.

A skill shortage.
Doctors and nurses do not grow on trees. It is not just a question of the money but also having the
medical staff to deploy to use it. There is of course a moral dimension to skill-raiding from overseas, often depleting other countries of medical expertise. That said, and while there is a huge need for front line staff (let us not forget many of them are physically and mentally on their knees as a result of Covid),
we will need to ensure there is a timely flexible response from the Home Office regarding visas and
processing applications.

The Social Care timebomb
A big part of the NHS capacity crisis is the bedblocking that occurs when patients no longer need acute care but are not able to return home without an integrated care package. As a result, they cannot be
discharged. This often leads to thousands of beds nationally being used for non- medical care. That
is why we are trying to defuse the Social Care time-bomb before it detonates.
Health and Social Care are two sides of the same coin. A major contributor to the problems of social care provision has been the disproportionate reductions in Government-provided funding to local government. It is local councils who know their communities and its needs better than Whitehall. I shall
continue my advocacy for Local Government funding within Westminster to make that case.

Future of care
Two final points if I may? First, we now need to sculpt what we want adult social care to do and look like for the next 30-40 years. The model needs a radical overhaul to reflect the change in demographic demand.
Second, we will at our peril forget that ‘social care’ is not ‘elderly care’. There is a huge and growing demand among children and young people for social care and they cannot be overlooked.

by Simon Hoare MP

Simon Hoare on the murder of David Amess

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I welcomed the shock, horror and outrage that greeted the vicious murder of my colleague David Amess. The response of the public highlighted that, thank God, such events are very few and far between in our national life. Their very rarity ensures that they stand out. We have not become accustomed to them. The senselessness of his death acts as a prompt for us to all to reaffirm our expectations of decency, courtesy and respect. It allows us to remind ourselves that these are the golden threads that bind us together – a virtually universally shared set of values all based on a broadly similar moral and ethical compass. His dying will have some meaning if it acts as a spur to all us to reaffirm, loudly and proudly, those shared values.

simon hoare's thoughts on the death of David Amess MP. — Sir David Amess 1952 – 2021

Like many, if not most of my Parliamentary colleagues from across the Parties, I have received many kind messages of support, thanks and human kindness from across the political spectrum of North Dorset and indeed further afield. Let me share an example –

“it is so incomprehensible when a tragedy like this happens. We also wanted Simon and his colleagues to know how grateful we are that there are people willing to represent the people of our country and fight to keep our democracy. We send you all our love and prayers. God Bless.”

And another sent from my friend and Labour opponent at the last two elections Pat Osborne –

“Shocking sickening events today Simon. I’m truly sorry for the loss of your colleague. I hope you’re OK. Please stay safe.”

Strangely, (or perhaps not) when those with actively different political views take the time and care to send a message it doubly warms the heart. All those messages cheered and provided succour in a bleak time. I doubt that anyone who did write will have known how much all of us have appreciated those messages of simple, unvarnished humanity. Thank you.

“We can get it wrong, fail and annoy.”
Simon Hoare

As I write we do not know the answer as to why David Amess was killed. We do know, however, that it shines a light on lessons needed to be learned by us all. We politicos need less populist dogma driving a wedge between people, and more respectful debate designed to bind together and heal. The country needs to learn that we politicians are not saints. We can get it wrong, fail and annoy. When we do it must be called out and appropriate sanctions taken. However, the vile tsunami of social media that pours continually from keyboards must stop. The anonymity of social media has made it anti-social media. I know I’ve typed a few things in the past that should have been phrased differently. Have been less dogmatic. Let’s remind ourselves we can disagree without being disagreeable. Many of us use metaphor, irony, sarcasm and robust language knowing we do not mean the words literally. We presume that our readers, listeners, followers will understand this. However, we make an error when we presume that everyone else will ‘get it’. The disturbed mind, the troubled soul, often needs little to break it and impel it to acts of ill and evil.

“The author hoped I would die in anguish with my children surrounding me helpless and then burn in hell’s fire”
Simon Hoare

I remember receiving, shortly after my first election in 2015 an absolutely abhorrent email. The author hoped I would die in anguish with my children surrounding me helpless and then burn in hell’s fire (you will get the drift). I contacted the sender to ask these questions in relation to his message: would he have said it face to face; would he have said it a telephone call; would he have put it in a letter? I asked him to reread what he had sent me. He was appalled. He cried. He apologised. We then had a perfectly civil conversation. There is too much ‘type and press send’. An email address, Twitter handle or social media account does not create a cloak of anonymity. It does not absolve one of responsibility for one’s words. It harms. It hurts. It invokes anxiety and fear. It creates an imbalance of entitlement – I can say what I want (says the writer) but woe betide if my MP/Councillor/official fights fire with fire.

So, as we come to terms with the murder of a decent public servant, husband and father killed solely because he was a public servant, let us try to find a way as a country to cherish and use our freedom of thought and speech but in ways that don’t lead to hate, violence and potential loss of life. I remain of the view that we can. I only hope that we do.

Simon Hoare

https://www.simonhoare.org.uk/contact