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    Are you interested in working with people from your local community? Would you like to help motivate and inspire adults and young people to improve their health and wellness through leading and managing teams that support them to be able to increase their levels of activity?

    If you answered yes to any of these questions, then we may have a Graduate Trainee Manager Programme for you!

    The Your Trust Graduate Trainee Manager Programme will give you a wide range of knowledge and most importantly experience to help you develop a leadership career within the field of culture, leisure, fitness, swimming, sports and wellness. You will also get a whole range of additional qualifications and the opportunity to see how the industry works.

    This Graduate Trainee Manager Programme has been designed to develop and support ambitious, motivated and capable team members or new applicants to progress in a leadership and management. During the Programme, you will work with every department within Your Trust with the view that, upon completion, you will be equipped to assume the role of a manager within one of our Teams. The programme is anticipated to last between one and two years but is dependent on individual progress; future progression will also be discussed and developed throughout the Programme.

    What You Will Be Doing

    Your role will be to provide a professional, efficient and high quality service to customers of Your Trust whilst on a Graduate Trainee Manager Programme. This includes supporting Your Trust Management Teams across Leisure, Culture, Development and Business Support with the day to day running of their service whilst completing a number of operational improvement projects and development activity leading to the achievement of a range of skills to enable a successful career in the leisure, cultural or community sector.

    What We Need From You

    • Qualified to Degree level, ideally 2:1 or above
    • Interest in career in culture, leisure, fitness, swimming, sports and wellness
    • Hard working and ambitious
    • Energetic and motivated
    • Committed
    • Curiosity - Curiosity to learn, to challenge the norm, to improve, to push boundaries, to innovate, to create. You don’t stand still, you are always evolving, learning and curious to improve what we offer.
    • Enthusiasm - You have a genuine enthusiasm for our people, for our borough, for service, for our driving purpose.
    • Trust - We have an innate trust in each other, in our teams and in our ability to deliver to the highest standard. We want our customers to trust us and in the high standards that they come to expect from us.

    As an organisation we encourage an environment which is inclusive to all therefore we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with all different kinds of life experiences

    All positions are subject to a DBS Check appropriate to the role