Jobs

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Currently recruiting for:

Social Enterprise Business Consultants
(Freelance positions- recruitment ongoing)

Social Enterprise Business Consultant

Length: initial 3-month period with a view to full-time

Salary: £28-35k (depending on experience)

Base: Central London office and some home working. Requirement for some travel within the UK.

Experience and skills

• Graduate with at least 4 years experience in a specialist direct client consultancy role. You will have managed client projects and possess a wide range of project management and consultancy tools.
• You will have either entrepreneurial experience running your own business or have worked within one of the UK’s recognised management consultancy firms.
  
  You will have had experience in the following areas:
  
  
• Designing financial forecasts
• Writing business plans and developing investment strategies
• Developing investment memorandums
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Working with a charity or another 3rd sector organisation
• Selling consultancy products
• Facilitation of group discussions and workshops

Above all you will excel at managing and developing client relationships.

Would suit

• A professional keen to make a fulfilling career move into the sharp-end of the exciting social sector. We can guarantee that your role will be intellectually stimulating and diverse.
• Someone who wants to make a difference by working with charities and social enterprises with a genuine passion and desire to create lasting change
• Someone who enjoys working in a small team as well as being able to work on their own.
• Someone who wants to challenge themselves and develop their skills to meet the needs of charities, social enterprises, corporate social responsibility departments and central government.
• Someone with a passion for environmental and social issues.

Role

• We deliver direct consultancy to all types of charities and social enterprises. You will take pre-sales meetings supporting the Director of Consultancy negotiate engagements.
• You will work directly with the clients helping them further develop their enterprises. The products include, feasibility studies, strategic reviews, financial planning, business planning, investment raising, structural reviews.
• We run a number of programmes including Spark, a national investment competition aimed at combating the problems of homelessness through social enterprise. You will work with the finalists developing the business plans and getting them investment ready for a pitch event.
• We develop programmes directly with corporate partners. You will assist and facilitate a team from the corporate and provide a social enterprise perspective.