Good job going for somebody
- 4 February 2013 16:17213596Ashford Town Team Manager
Salary up to £35,088 pa
plus lease car or essential car user allowance.
Town Centres are currently going through a radical period of change. The Ashford Town Team Manager will need to embrace this change and work to define the characteristics, roles and experiences that will support the evolution of a vibrant and prosperous Town Centre, and will establish a unique Ashford experience.
This exciting new role of Town Team Manager in a Portas Pilot Town is required to create and deliver projects that will increase footfall and spend within Town Centre businesses.
The post holder will be expected to:
Lead the Ashford Portas Pilot Project, and establish and deliver a programme of activity to stimulate the vitality and viability of Ashford Town Centre.
Help define the role of Ashford Town Centre by building on the Ashford 2030 Framework developing the town centre Vision, and improving the management of Ashford Town Centre.
Champion the views of Ashford Town Centre businesses and residents ensuring they are relayed to the Town Team
The post holder must have a good understanding of the issues that town centres face and the experience and skills in retail and marketing to deliver solutions that will increase commercial activity and differentiate Ashford from other town centres. We are looking for you to have:
Substantial experience in the retail / marketing / tourism / hospitality industry.
Considerable experience of project management and delivery
The skills to engage businesses and develop dynamic partnership working.
For an informal discussion please contact Andrew Osborne, Economic Development Manager on: 01233 330310
For an application form and further details please contact recruitment@ashford.gov.uk or visit our jobs page of our website www.ashford.gov.uk
Closing date: Midday Thursday 21st February 2013 - 4 February 2013 16:24213598this just shows how important this role is, pity dover doesn't have one.
- 4 February 2013 16:25213599Team Ashford? I wonder if they do t-shirts, tea-cloths etc. with their initials on?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 4 February 2013 16:45213604Ashford got some Portas money to pay for it from !
(I also 'think' that there was some money given to the town centre when Sainsbury got permission to extend out of town (they still own the area where Wilkinson now is). )Find me on Facebook Dover History Pages Group or Flickr
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast - 4 February 2013 16:55213605Ashford also has a "Town Centre Manager" already - their Town Team are talking about permaneny covered market stalls down the Heights street and a phone app amongst other things
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast - 4 February 2013 16:57213607A Town Centre Manager AND a Town Team Manager, wow.
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4 February 2013 17:04213610With £35,000 plus the car allowance the Portas money will not stretch very far, I wonder why they need two Managers seems a bit over the top even if their remits are different.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 4 February 2013 17:05213611Exactly Jan, the Portas money was £100k, the Town Team manager will cost £50k pa taking into account rent, IT, stationery etc. Thats not what the money was intended for.
- 4 February 2013 17:24213614There is the Ashford Town Centre Partnership, though I don't know this works
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast - 4 February 2013 17:30213616Section 106 which I think backs up my Sainsbury theory above
"The £100,000 from government will also be match funded by an additional £100,000 from contributions through the planning agreements to revitalise the town centre"Find me on Facebook Dover History Pages Group or Flickr
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast - 4 February 2013 17:36213618that just goes to show that section 106 money is not such a barrier to developers, in fact i would think that sainsbury's could make up that sort of money in a matter of days.
- 4 February 2013 18:22213625Thanks David.
Perhaps I should send them my Tourism Strategy, the Plan of Action for Dover Town and How to Run a Successful Street Market, all adapted for Ashford of course.
If I could take up a full-time job, I'd think very seriously about it.
Roger - 5 February 2013 01:27213693Roger, if you send them all this information, they might just use it and not even say thank you.
Never play full open cards without a written agreement first! Always keep half the essentials secret for another day, that way they will deem you indispensable.
That's how I go about it in general
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 5 February 2013 05:51213695I can't take up a full-time job Alexander, but it's a shame really, but I'm sure there are many people able to take this up. The big shame, to me, is that Dover cannot fund such a post - £35,000 is a damn good salary.
Roger - 5 February 2013 08:35213707Roger, I wasn't aware you had a document about running a successful street market, when was this produced and what did you base it on, I'm very interested to have a look.
It won't be long before the Bluebird market is back outside and we have a target of 40 stalls a week from 30 pre xmas. - 5 February 2013 09:00213713I'm not sure if you are winding me up David, but after I was requested not to attend any more Town Team meetings, those who attended the next one were charged with looking into certain aspects.
I'm sure he won't mind me saying so, but Steve Davies of the Accommodation Shop was charged with finding out about running a street market. He contacted Dover and Channel Chamber of Commerce; he received no reply from Dover, but Peter Hobbs of the Channel Chamber said if you want to know anything about running a street market, talk to Roger Walkden - so he did.
I had written a paper on this and it has been updated a number of times since; It was also brought to a Town Team meeting at Simon's office in Castle Street, where it was discounted by the majority of those attending; you all knew better.
I have been told that it is personal and that no matter what I send or suggest, it will be discarded. I think that is a shame - not for me, but for Dover, but hey ho, life goes on.
I appreciate you and the other Town Team members are working very hard and well done for what you have achieved, but I do believe that had you been more inclusive than exclusive, you may have achieved more.
Roger - 5 February 2013 09:23213717I'm not winding anybody up Roger, of course I'm aware you attended a meeting. You suggested we gave the job of running the market to a gentleman who had previously applied for the job via DDC, they considered he had no experience or the right credentials. You were made aware of that at the meeting by a DDC councillor.
I wasn't aware you had a document about running a street market, I had no idea you had run a street market as I thought the previous saturday market was run by Cameron. - 5 February 2013 09:26213718btw at the last Town Team meeting there were 17 present, we certainly aren't exclusive.
We meet every monday at 5.30, if you'd like to come along, and this invitation is extended to all, you're more than welcome.
Please let me know beforehand so we can arrange numbers - 5 February 2013 09:59213725where are the meetings held david?
- 5 February 2013 10:31213739Usually the Marina Hotel, everybody is welcome, the only stipulation being what you'd like to discuss so we can make it an agenda item. We're all very busy and we don't just meet up for a natter.