Centre Manager

Centre Manager

Location: Trafford Water Sports Centre

Contract type: Full time, permanent position 40 hours per week

Salary: £32,000+ Per Year depending on experience & qualifications.

Our client offers a wide range of outdoor activities and educational experiences to individuals, families, and schools across our 5 Activity centres.

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, and driven Centre Manager to lead their Water Sports Centre in the next stage of its development. The centre is located at Sale Water Park, Greater Manchester, with great transport links and ideally located in the North West between the Peak District, North Wales, and the Lakes.

Trafford Water Sports Centre is AALA licensed, RYA approved, & a Paddle UK delivery partner. As well as our day-to-day activities of sailing, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, and stand-up paddle boarding, we also offer climbing, Mountain Biking, & other land-based activities such as Bushcraft. The majority of our work is with long-term groups, meaning that your sessions will have variety and development; we are not a centre that delivers the same sessions week in week out!

It is unlike many outdoor centres in that they have access to a huge array of additional training, support teams, and career development pathways. This is not just a job, but a rewarding and exciting career with many possibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that the centre is consistently delivering high-quality outdoor adventure sessions.
• Line management of the onsite team.
• Contribution to the overall running and development of thea company, including new developments and new centres.
• Contributing to the delivery of staff training and in-house activity sign-off.
• Collaborate with Operations Manager and Onboarding to recruit staff as the need arises.
• Support the development of activity safety documentation and processes.
• Management of site-specific safety documentation and processes.
• Management and development of physical resources (buildings, land, and equipment as appropriate).

What we are looking for:

• Experience in outdoor centres, or the delivery of Outdoor Education, at a senior level (eg Senior Instructor, Deputy Manager/Manager).
• Qualifications and experience in a range of outdoor adventure sports.
• Outdoor First Aid Qualification (minimum 16 hours).
• Full UK driving license.
• Proven management experience.

Benefits with this role:

• Progressive pay scale.
• HAPI App - access your employee discounts and rewards.
• Employee Assistance Scheme.
• 33 days of holiday annually, social events, and access to equipment.

Our client are very proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant that means we have made a commitment to welcoming service personnel, veterans and military families into the group. We are delighted to have veteran friendly policies, offer a Veterans Peer Support Network within our teams and are able to offer Military Awareness and support to our colleagues.

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