Project Co-ordinator - Britannia Sailing Trust, Devon

Project Coordinator for Britannia: Making Waves

Britannia Sailing Trust is looking for a Project Coordinator who will be crucial to the delivery and management of this Maritime Heritage Project, ‘Britannia: Making Waves’.

You’ll be responsible for tracking the lifecycle of this project from start to completion. It’s an exciting and varied job which could involve anything from working with volunteers to arranging events and providing services to the disadvantaged. Working closely with the team and management, you will ensure that everyone on the team is on track to complete their tasks on time and on budget.

This is the perfect career route if you’re someone who enjoys variety and could be a useful step on a career path to being a Project Manager.

16 hours a week – 0.4 full time equivalent. Free lance self-employed person required for a 2-year contract, reviewed after 12 months. You would be providing information and data collection for monthly reporting to the Board of Trustees of Britannia Sailing Trust and be under the guidance of and managed by experienced Board members.

Salary £25,000 pa pro rata. Travel expenses are paid at 45 pence per mile whilst undertaking duties on behalf of the Trust.

We are a very small team and passionate about our aims – staffed mostly by volunteers, we are working to promote maritime heritage but with people in mind.

Your work will be centred on the historic vessel Britannia, berthed in Exeter Heritage Harbour and this project is to complete her restoration and make her ready to take to the seas again, transitioning from a static restoration project to a functioning seafaring and passenger carrying traditional sailing vessel. More information about our history and goals can be found here on our website.

Duties will include:

• Creation and running community events in tandem with project team
• Liaison with community partners furthering our goals for community education
• Working with team members – hands on and behind the scenes to ensure timescales are upheld in accordance with the Project Plan
• Working with the Volunteer Supervisor to ensure that our volunteer team have a good experience; collecting regular feedback, etc.
• Keeping records and collecting data on activities that are being delivered enabling high quality evaluation
• Produce a simple monthly project report for the Project Team and the board of Trustees

Essential Skills:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Education to GCSE and A level
• Exemplary time management skills and ability to work on own initiative as well as working within a team.
• Ability to communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Empathy, Respectful and non-judgemental attitude – some of our team members may be vulnerable
• Ability to undertake a varied workload and to keep to deadlines
• Creative and imaginative
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Valid driving licence

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience in youth work, community or business
• A proven track record of raising significant funds from charitable trusts or foundations.
• A knowledge of or some experience in Maritime Heritage
• An understanding of social values and a commitment to the ethos and
  values of Britannia sailing trust
• Some sailing experience at any level – dinghy to Tall ships – desirable, but not essential.

Britannia Sailing Trust is an ever-changing organisation and all staff are expected to participate constructively in our activities and to adopt a flexible approach to their work. This job description will be reviewed annually during the appraisal process, and may be varied according to the needs of Britannia Sailing Trust.

The job description sets out the main duties of the post at the date when it was drawn up. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot of themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading for the post.

Some of this work can be done from home and a laptop and connection to wifi is essential, but we would expect some time to be spent every week with the restoration team and volunteers at Exeter Quay.

Britannia Sailing Trust has a Safeguarding Policy, Equal Opportunities Policy, DBS Policy, Health and Safety Policy and Volunteer Policy. You will be made familiar with these in an Induction. We expect all our staff and volunteers to uphold them and respect the ethos.

Please apply by email in the first instance to britannia1915@gmail.com