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Manager, Zippy’s Friends

Zippy’s Friends is a programme that helps young children to develop coping and social skills. It is now running in primary schools and kindergartens in 13 countries, and will help more than 60,000 children this year. You can read more about the programme here.

We now need to recruit a Manager to promote and manage the programme. Initially, the appointment will focus on Zippy’s Friends in the UK, but we hope that the Manager will increasingly take responsibility for expanding and supporting the programme overseas, at which point the salary would be adjusted.

Have a look at the detailed job description, and see if this sounds like the job for you.

Job Description

The Manager will be responsible for promoting Zippy’s Friends, in the UK and overseas, and supporting our existing partner agencies and teachers.

- organising and running teacher training courses
- liaising with partners
- providing information
- visiting schools and observing Zippy’s Friends classes
- organising workshops and conferences

- emails and correspondence
- maintaining detailed records and databases
- developing PowerPoint presentations
- arranging travel and accommodation
- monitoring stock levels and arranging deliveries and reprints

● Promotion, including:

- marketing
- giving presentations
- identifying suitable partner agencies
- negotiating contracts
- responding to enquiries

Person Specification

A few skills and qualities are essential, including:

• Commitment to our Mission
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Efficient, meticulous and tidy worker
• Cheerful, polite and pleasant personality
• Excellent presentational skills
• Happy to work in a small team and, occasionally, alone
• Willingness and ability to travel, both in the UK and overseas

Beyond this, skills and experience in these areas will be very helpful:

• Primary school teaching, particularly PSHE
• Knowledge of children’s emotional development
• Marketing and communication
• Foreign languages and /or experience of working in cross-cultural environments

The job is based at our office in Kingston upon Thames. Unfortunately, the office is not accessible to wheelchairs.

Salary

Salary will depend on experience, but is likely to be in the range of £23-25,000.

Impact

This is a chance for the right person to manage and develop an internationally recognised programme that already helps more than 60,000 young children each year and is still growing rapidly.

Applications for this post have now closed.