Next Steps Hub Manager

Job Description

The Next Steps Hub Manager will lead and manage a dedicated team supporting apprentices to achieve their personal development goals on their three-year programme. About the Role: As a Next Steps Hub Manager, you will oversee the delivery of the Next Steps Programme in the hub, ensuring high-quality service delivery and the growth of the programme. Your key responsibilities will include: Managing and supervising a team of facilitators to support apprentices through their development plans. Assisting apprentices in completing awards and programmes such as Duke of Edinburgh, Grow and Learn, and John Muir. Ensuring the achievement of formal qualifications through recognised bodies (SQA, JASS). Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, including parents, funders, and educational bodies. Overseeing financial records and ensuring compliance with policies and regulations. Managing staff development, supervision, and performance reviews. Encouraging apprentices to explore and develop social enterprises. Please note that we are aiming to appoint quickly, due to the service opening in April 2025. A Recruitment Pack is available for download below. Are you passionate about Learning for Sustainability? Do you want to inspire and enable Scotland to contribute to sustainability at local, national, and global levels? Are you committed to working with learners, educators, decision-makers and communities to build a socially-just and sustainable world? If so, and you have the experience and skills, we want to hear from you. About Learning for Sustainability Scotland Learning for Sustainability Scotland is a pan-sectoral organisation; working across the length and breadth of Scotland and with frequent collaboration with partners across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. It has more than 1,000 individual and organisational members with a commitment to learning for sustainability. These include members from schools, colleges, universities, youth and community learning, local and central government and related agencies, and the ‘third sector’. Your skills and attributes for success: Proven track record and commitment to, pan-sectoral knowledge of, and passion for Learning for Sustainability. Ability to lead, facilitate and contribute to the development of the overall strategic direction of Learning for Sustainability Scotland. Ability to lead, manage and develop the content of forward work plans and budgets. Strong organisational, team collaboration, self- and line-management, and networking skills. Skill and experience to represent Learning for Sustainability Scotland; including high-level external advocacy and engagement with other UN RCEs, international organisations, Scottish Government and Agencies, Scotland’s universities and colleges, schools and educators, ‘third sector’ organisations and communities, private sector, and LfS Scotland members and other individuals and bodies as appropriate. This is a part-time role (0.6 FTE / 21 hours per week), with the opportunity to expand to full-time depending on project development and income growth. We are open to flexible and hybrid working patterns that combine remote and regular on-campus work. As a valued member of our team you can expect: An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. To be part of a diverse and vibrant local, national and international community. Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. About Us As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally. About the Team Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES), University of Edinburgh, has been making a major contribution and impact to the fields of education and sport both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced and transformed learning, teaching, and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. We are deeply committed to social justice, inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility. Our aim in all our work is to significantly impact the education, wellbeing and development of children, young people and adults, through problem-solving in the fields of education and sport. #J-18808-Ljbffr