Location
Southampton | United Kingdom
Job description
FareShare
Job Description – Regional Manager
Reporting to: Senior Transitions Manager
Location: Southampton
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35hrs
Salary: Circa £35k
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident Employer that welcome disabled applicants and provide reasonable adjustments.
About FareShare
FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to nearly 9,500 frontline charities and community groups.
The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat. It reaches charities across the UK, including school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.
Every year, more than three million tonnes of food go to waste in the UK, enough for 7 billion meals. Meanwhile, the cost-of-living crisis is driving millions into food insecurity. FareShare has a plan to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis using England’s surplus food.
We are fortunate to benefit from the support of major retailers, the media, sports ambassadors and a groundswell of public engagement. As a result, there has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness.
The role
This role is pivotal to the success of FareShare in the region. This individual is ultimately responsible for the leadership, development and direction FareShare’s operations locally. The individual will offer a holistic view of the operation within the setting of the local need and ensure that there is an innovative approach to meeting this need within the confines of complete compliance and operational safety. The role will manage and co-ordinate the day to day operations of the Regional Centre in liaison with other key managers. They will also manage and support the Regional Centre staff and volunteers, leading by example to ensure that our ambitious targets are met and ensure continuity of delivery standards within the guidelines of FareShare national policies and procedures and the needs of the local community.
FareShare UK has ambitious strategic goals and targets and this role provides the conduit to meeting these with the region. They will focus on meeting growth targets and operational excellence and report effectively on these to FareShare UK’s central teams and partners. This role is FareShare’s ambassador locally and will make connections with stakeholders in other not-for-profit organisations, local government, funding bodies and local media sources on our behalf.
The role is responsible for the sustainability of the region both in terms of financial sustainability through earned income, generating funds and creating and delivery innovative projects to further the mission.
Main areas of responsibility
- Create and develop Strategy and Business models in line with FareShare Strategy to accept and redistribute all food to our communities
- Manage and work within budgets, including forecasting, to increase income and improve costs per tonne of food moved
- Responsible for the Health and Safety of our people and responsible for Food Safety through working closely with the Operations Manager and Warehouse Manager
- Maximise the social and environmental impact of food redistribution through following our Charity Eligibility criteria
- Line Management responsibility for a team of Senior Managers, ensuring that all staff and volunteers have the knowledge and training required to deliver their objectives
- Ensuring high levels of data accuracy and accurate, timely reporting to Leadership Teams
- Responsible for ensuring that all investments are delivered on time and on budget
- Responsible for ensuring that all paid staff and volunteers have the best experience whilst working for FareShare and are fully supported through working with the Management Team, including delivering Appraisals, one-to-ones, inductions and Probation Reviews
- Responsible for engaging with HR on any matters of risk, and working within Employment Law
- Work with FareShare UK departments including Volunteering, Marketing, Fundraising and others to support the day to day operation
- Engage with the Food Team, Supply Chain and Logistics and Network Development Managers to ensure that FareShare Southern Central has the provision and support needed to deliver
- Ensuring that Safeguarding policies and best practice are adhered to
- Engage with Community Food Members (CFM’s) to deliver the highest standards of provision
- Working with FareShare Go teams to identify opportunities to meet demand
- Share best practice and learn from others in the FareShare Network to improve economies of scale, deliver financial sustainability and create innovation
As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Excellent Financial Management experience, including income, expenditure and performance monitoring
- Leadership of strategic and operational projects
- Working with and developing staff and volunteers who may have complex needs
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a team to achieve outcomes
- Business Planning skills to be able to create sustainable and innovative approaches to meet service needs
- High level of communication skills including oral and written in order to engage with a range of diverse people
- Ability to develop high level partnerships with external stakeholders to achieve strategic goals
- Working in a regulated environment and demonstrable risk assessment capabilities
- Problem solving skills and ability to make operational decisions on the spot
- Ability to act as an ambassador for FareShare within local communities
- Demonstrable ability to deliver good Customer Service levels to CFM’s
Desirable Criteria
- Health and Safety and Food Safety qualifications
- Full and clean driving license
Competencies and behaviours
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Planning and Prioritisation – develop and implement clear plans with defined outcomes and resource management
- Communicating with impact – ability to influence all people to establish commitment to the organisational goals
- The ability to act quickly and decisively to enact change
- Problem Solving and decision making – the ability to anticipate, assess and deliver innovative solutions to problems with clear and logical thinking
Benefits
- Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
- 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- Employers pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
Deadline for applications: 15th March 2024
For any further questions on this please email [email protected]
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