Free Admission and ALL are welcome
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MARKETING MANAGER | Dorset Chamber
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
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
- 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
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
Cleaner Required nr Sherborne Dorset
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:
Office Cleaner Blandford | Servicemaster Wessex
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
Maintenance Team Members | King’s school Bruton
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
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
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
