Social Enterprise Lead (Birmingham)

£27,179 -£29,324 pa + benefits Permanent, full time Selly Oak, Birmingham You have proven experience of working with young people between 18-25 with mental health issues, including experience of management or supervisory responsibility. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Aquarius as a Social Enterprise Lead. Based in Edgbaston, Aquarius is a charity that helps people and communities overcome the harm caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling. This brand-new role involves working at our social enterprise café, Evolve, with sites in Selly Oak, St. Paul's, and Digbeth iconic Adam & Eve, a former pub and music venue. Evolve provides young people who have faced barriers into employment with training and job opportunities – all whilst serving up stellar coffee, freshly prepared sandwiches, and tasty treats. Your challenge will be to take responsibility for the development and growth of Evolve and oversee the overall day-to-day running of the sites. This could include creating and implementing new pricing and menu structures, maintaining standards. We’ll also look to you to line manage supervisors and volunteers and manage their progression. Overseeing the support of young people, budgeting and finances, creating and implementing new marketing strategies and building relationships with suppliers and sponsors are just some aspects of this brilliant opportunity. To succeed, you’ll need to be a multi-tasker with excellent timekeeping who flexible over working hours and willing to travel to various locations in Birmingham as required. Professional and presentable in appearance, you have an enthusiastic approach to all aspects of work, coupled with good customer service skills and a real team ethos. What more, you’re comfortable working with procedural requirements and following instructions but can also use your initiative. Keen to learn new things, an understanding of costs and trading margins would be useful, and experience in and passion for working in the hospitality industry is essential. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post. To review the Job Description please click here. We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a Black, Asian and those in Minority Ethnic background. This is a rolling recruitment process; shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply. When applying, please upload a CV and supporting statement which should clearly outline your skills and experience. Aquarius Action Projects is a long-established charity (since 1982) based in Birmingham with a national reach of contracts and Partnerships. Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough – a large charity that specialises in mental health, alcohol, drugs and related areas. Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support. We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people. Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Richmond Fellowship’ or ‘Aquarius’ (our subsidiary charity in the Midlands). Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate. Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough jobs on the Humankind job site https://peoplekind.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/ Aquarius Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough. Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers. Find out more at www.aquarius.org.uk