Leadership Specialist Part Time

Manchester, Lancashire
The Growth Company

The Growth Company (GC) Business Support team has several vacancies open for a Leadership Specialist/Advisor to support business leaders through demonstrable experience, knowledge, and credibility, within all areas of strategic and personal leadership development.

As a leadership specialist in GC Business Growth Hub, you will need in-depth experience and understanding of leadership and management tools/techniques, to develop a leadership strategy for all sizes of businesses across the Greater Manchester (GM) area.

GC Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across GM to realise their ambitions. Since 2011, GC Business Growth Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing finance guidance, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. We work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain effective relations with business owners/leaders and internal and external key contacts to promote our services.
• Work with a specialist range of procured suppliers to design and run bespoke leadership support.
• Design, develop and lead the delivery of a range of workshop/cohort programmes aimed at leaders across a range of businesses.
• Develop and maintain a high-level network of business/professional contacts that generate personal referrals.
• Handling client enquiries face-to-face, via phone, and email, to assess growth potential, and leadership and business needs using appropriate tools, processes and systems where required.
• Ensure that the monitoring and collection of output and impact data is undertaken throughout the project.
• Undertake detailed diagnostics face-to-face at client premises (where appropriate) to identify the appropriate starting point of support.
• Undertake detailed discussions with clients around complex leadership issues to understand their leadership challenges.

About you:

• Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify opportunities and be innovative.
• Superb communicator who can network effectively.
• Excellent planner and, organiser.
• Ability to work at a senior strategic level, work within tight deadlines and handle challenging situations that leaders may experience.
• Able to challenge leaders of all levels to enable them to develop their personal leadership styles.

Skills required:

• Account management skills are essential.
• Expertise in coaching, change management, performance analysis and people management are essential.
• Experience of working with and developing the personal skills of SME business leaders.
• In-depth understanding of the leadership development arena across GM is a must.
• Significant and demonstrable experience in completing leadership behavioral assessments.
• At least degree level business education, or degree level qualification with a management body or the relevant business experience to match those.
• Proven track record in managing a range of leadership issues.
• Has technical knowledge in the key leadership developmental areas.
• Excellent presentation skills both written and oral.
• Well-developed IT skills.

GC is committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from an ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the recruiting manager and our Internal recruitment team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

Should you apply for any of our roles, we will be completing interviews virtually or face to face, dependent on the role. This will be explained further should you reach interview stage. We will be more than happy to explain the measures we have put in place, ahead of you attending any of our premises.