Staffing & Logistics Manager
Role: Staffing & Logistics Manager.
Start date: January 2025 onwards.
Pay: £30,000 per annum on a full-time contract
Contract: Full-time contract. Part-time contract negotiable
Location: Sam Sykes Kendal HQ
How: To apply for this role please read the information and recruitment steps below, before sending your C.V with a cover letter to director@samsykesltd.co.uk
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We are recruiting for a Staffing & Logistics Manager to join our industry-leading DofE team for 2025 onwards.
Sam Sykes Ltd is seeking to appoint a highly motivated, experienced, and capable Staffing & Logistics Manager to fulfill the exciting and challenging role of managing the logistics & staffing of our extensive DofE expedition offering to UK & overseas customers.
The Staffing & Logistics Manager will work alongside our Operations Manager & Administration Manager to oversee the logistics & staffing of our 250+ freelance instructional staff and our busy course calendar. You will have the opportunity to develop and deliver innovative solutions to staff and deliver exceptional expeditions based on client requirements
You will be the core administrative contact for our entire operational team and take responsibility for the safe and professional delivery of our courses by ensuring the competency of staff, compliance with industry standards, AALS, HSE legislation, National Governing Body requirements, procedures, and regulations.
Our ideal applicant must be able to provide evidence of significant logistical management experience together with a calm and focused approach that inspires respect amongst a diverse group of experienced outdoor staff. Excellent organisational and IT skills are essential. All appointments will be based on merit. The candidate should have experience with the DofE expedition section or similar.
Application closing date: 12th December 2024.
Interviews are to be held week commencing 16th December 2024.
Recruitment steps
Send in your CV and cover letter FAO: Sam Sykes CEO to director@samsykesltd.co.uk
Following a review of the details, an in-person interview will be arranged at Sam Sykes HQ with Sam & the senior team. This will also be an opportunity for you to interview us, and discuss the role in more detail.
If successful at the interview, your references will be contacted along with any other safeguarding procedures completed and documentation checked.
Following positive outcomes from the references, safeguarding, and documentation checks in step 3, a contract will be offered for you to consider, and if accepted an induction process and internal training process arranged with you.
If you have any queries regarding the role after reading the job and personal specifications (buttons above), please contact us directly by e-mail.
About Sam Sykes
Operating throughout the U.K.
Sam Sykes is a world-leading provider of the expedition and residential sections of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.
Our team is the core of our business success.
Since 2009 we have grown consistently as a commercial organisation, whilst maintaining an unparalleled reputation for safety, professionalism, and ambition. The consistency of our continued growth and professionalism is symbiotic with the internationally regarded staff team here at Sam Sykes.
Based from our HQ in the Lake District.
We are driven to ensure that our staff enjoy working within a team of like-minded people, where personal development is actively encouraged and opportunity for progression is clear. Each member of the Sam Sykes team is an ambassador with an important voice both internally and externally to our company.
The story of Sam Sykes is steeped in over five decades of family history, delivering inspirational adventures to people worldwide since the early 1970’s. For more information on our background just click here.