an innovative social marketing agency that specialises in designing and implementing behaviour change programmes that get more people cycling are looking for a number of talented individuals to join their team they require a number of project managers to deliver their best practice workplace cycle challenge programme which is to be run in a number of locations across the uk the workplace cycle challenge is a fun free competition between businesses in an area to see which can encourage the most employees to cycle at least once over a threeweek period the organisations and teams that get the highest percentage of staff to ride a bike for just minutes or more will win the aim of the role is to establish and develop relationships with contacts with local businesses and encourage as many businesses and people to take part as possible each challenge has a dedicated project manager who works on a fixed term contract for between and 80 days for a fixed fee plus a performance based bonus giving a package equivalent of a prorata salary of the days and time commitments vary to 5 days a week depending on the project see each job description on our website for specifics it maybe possible for the right candidate to take on two challenge project contracts and work full time across both projects they are currently recruiting for projects in reading lewes hertfordshire and maidenhead and are soon to be recruiting in york and bournemouth they will also be recruiting for several other projects across the uk in february and march 013 roles and responsibilities the primary roles and responsibilities of this role are to act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports encourage businesses to register and participate in the challenge this will involve contacting potential businesses by phone and in person sometimes with warm leads but cold leads will also need to be contacted and engaged giving presentations meeting with relevant staff and selling in the challenge concept running media stunts distributing flyers to bike shops on cycle paths and on parked bikes promotion at local events etc contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the challenge externally to their networks source and manage sponsored incentives and prizes identify suitable champions within participating businesses develop effective workings relations with them and provide ongoing support so that they can promote the challenge effectively internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the challenge deliver registration packs to champions at registered businesses before the challenge starts and brief all champions plan and run events and tryabike sessions at participating businesses or in central locations to provide access to bikes and facilitate participant involvement in the challenge particularly by new cyclists person specification the project manager will be a friendly people person who is excellent at building corporate relationships and capable of presenting and selling the