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Centre Coordinator

Healthy Me Healthy Communities
Manchester, Greater Manchester

Posted: 8 Dec 2025

Deadline: 8 Jan 2026

Compensation: £27,711 - £30, 060 per year, starting at £27,711 (points 12-17)

Living Wage employer Disability Confident scheme

Paid Full-time Permanent

Job description

From a disused paint factory to an award-winning community hub, Gorton Central has had a £1million makeover transforming it into a thriving community asset. 

We’re looking for a pro-active person to do this varied, ‘hands on’ role at Gorton Central, our community hub and home, where we develop exciting, innovative and quality services and collaborations. The Centre Coordinator will be responsible for the day to day operations of our busy community hub. 

The Centre Coordinator will report to the Service and Business Manager, and will line-manager centre and centre volunteers. 

Key accountabilities

The role will be responsible for:

• The day to day operations of a busy community hub including opening and closing and ensuring compliance, customer service and activities are of a high standard and delivered in line with agreed approaches and organisational priorities.
• Line management of centre staff and centre volunteers.
• Planning and monitoring the centre rota, deploying centre staff and volunteers ensuring the centre remains open, safe, inclusive and offers a high standard of customer service.
• Coordinating the Healthy Me Healthy Communities Centre activities including the Community Grocers (part of the Good Food Gorton approach) and wellbeing activities.
• Coordinating and updating an effective signposting and referral system and liaising with partners to provide a high quality service.
• Maintaining a maintenance and repairs log of the building, dealing with emergency maintenance incidents, deploying maintenance contractors from an approved list and overseeing on site maintenance contractors.
• Cultivating and maintaining effective professional relationships with partners and venue hirers contributing to Centre income targets.
• Undertaking consultation, feedback and evaluation with Centre participants and venue hire customers.
• Monitoring Centre related budgets and providing insights into improving earned income and cost savings.
• Completing monitoring, impact and social value reporting of the Centre.
• Working with the Service and Business Manager and other team members on existing and new initiatives including the development of food security and garden projects.
• Applying for and completing monitoring and evaluation for small grants related to Centre delivery.
• An active member of the Gorton Central operational team.
• Undertake other duties as required to meet the organisational needs.

For this post, successful candidates will need to demonstrate their skills and experience of the following:

• Experience of working in a VCSE/statutory community centre/similar venue.
• Experience of supervising/line managing staff and/or volunteers.
• Ability to deal with multiple competing priorities and demands, prioritising based on business need.
• Ability to form strong professional relationships with venue hirers and partner agencies, contributing to earned income and service development objectives.
• Ability to work effectively under minimal supervision and as part of a team.
• Strong understanding of and commitment to improving health and life outcome for those most effected by inequalities.
• Excellent work ethic with the willingness to work flexibly and responsively to meet the needs of the organisation.
• Good knowledge of IT packages including Microsoft Office, databases, email and social-media.
• A good standard of education with evidence of professional development.
• Entitlement to work in the UK at the point of the role commencing.

Application information

• Email your CV (maximum 2 pages of A4) and a statement outlining how you meet the requirement of the job description and person specification (maximum 2 pages of A4) to info@hmhc.co.uk by 10am Thursday 8th January 2026.
• Interviews will be held in person at Gorton Central, Highmead Street, Gorton, M18 8PE on Thursday 15th January 2026.
• For an informal chat about the role, please email Kate Harrison, Service and Business Manager on Kate@hmhc.co.uk to arrange.

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