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This just came up on my FB, if I was 20 yeas younger and knew more about social media. Imagine living in the tweed valley in 2021.Jealous.
Or Edinburgh, or anywhere round there..
Whilst you are at it, volunteer at EWS tweed valley too.
Given the overwhelming reaction here, I may have to give it all up and go there myself..
Nice place to visit. Couldn't live there.
I've only visited, done Inners and Gtress a few times, why couldn't you live there?
The ridings great but it's too far from civilisation, at least 50 years.
Nice place to visit. Couldn’t live there.
Aye its shite here.
Salary looks a bit **** for the amount of stuff they want you to do?
Lived in Innerleithen for years (when I didn't cycle much.) Great place. Worked in Edinburgh ~1hr commute each way.
Salary looks a bit **** for the amount of stuff they want you to do?
Yeah, might be an interesting & fun opportunity for someone without a ton of experience - but you'd probably need a lot of experience to do everything they are asking for.
And I'm not sure it's the most-secure kind of business, so perhaps not one to leave a decent position for.
It seems like a wishlist jobspec rather than a realistic one tbh, definitely worth sticking in an application even if you don't think you meet a bunch of their "requirements", there won't be many people that can honestly say they tick them all.
(it's almost 2 different jobs mashed together, with the brewery and events stuff having their own specialities and requirements.
Will they take a 40-something IT manager with no relevant experience?
Not for me, that's some job spec for not much cash
That's actually a job role I could fill, however they're offering way to low for what they're expecting, and the experience they're looking for. It looks like they're trying to replace someone who has been trying to do it all. A 5 page job decription is quite something and with "flexibilty". It looks great, but crikey, they could offer more if it's a full time role.
I dunno 30k is a lot in some areas. My wife wants us to move back to Wales and I keep looking. I get offered senior management accounts roles in Newport for 35-40k and thats aimed at people like me who are 50ish.. If you live and work in the south east thats kind of laughabale money.
So if I was late 20's and wanted to move to tweed valley and internerd savvy, its seems OK..
Eg this says 25k is about right. https://www.checkasalary.co.uk/salary/digital-marketing-executive-scotland?
If it was based in edinburgh then maybe it would be much higher.
Having been involved with various race organisers, with the exception of the brewery bits, that is probably quite an accurate description of what is needed to work for a sporting event organiser.
You spend any time between events, promoting events, dealing with sponsors, dealing with entrants,
and planning for events. Then you have to actually put on the event, all while still dealing with sponsors and entrants, and the inevitable problems that appear during event setup. There can't be many smaller race organisers who don't put in 12+ hour days in the days running up to events.
It goes from being a quite laid back office based role during the quite periods, to absolute continual flat out chaos leading up to events. If you've ever wondered why race organisers look tired on race day, it's because they've probably worked 80+ hours in the preceding week, and still have another day off clearing up to handle.
It can be a very rewarding job, but it's also not for everybody. If you can't handle a line up of people wanting their problems sorted right now, while you have several hundred people waiting for an event to happen as expected, you're probably not going to survive for long.
Blimey, that is some job description.
So in summary they want a someone who can triple up as a sales person, a marketing manager and a PR/comms person, with some event organisation/management thrown in to fill up the quiet bits in between (natch!)
They must be bonkers. It is essentially three entirely separate job roles and specialisms. They're either taking the proverbial, or they're completely ignorant as to what is involved.
Recruit someone and try to get them to actually do all of that and they'll be up in front of a tribunal and getting flamed on social meeja - a la Brewdog - toot sweet.
And all that guffin about "it'll be hard and stressful and you'll just have to man up" don't mean jack when whichever poor sod you've thrown to the wolves is having a breakdown in the corner. Somebody needs to have a word