Training Support Officer

Job Title: Training Support Officer

Location: Homebased or Southwest Area Office, BS3 2NS

Salary: £10,600 per annum, pro rata (£26,500 full time equivalent)

Job type: Part time - two days/14 hours per week, FTC - until 31st December 2026

Closing Date: 18thJanuary 2026

Interview Date: Week commencing 26th January 2026

Are you a Training Support Officer looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development.

We are currently looking for a Training Support Officer to join our team.

About the role:

This role provides tactical and targeted support to our District teams as we seek to enable our volunteers to deliver training to both cadets and volunteers in line with the Sea Cadets Learning Strategy. This post is responsible for supporting the delivery of the district training, including Royal Marine Cadet (RMC) training activity at Troop level. The work location can be flexible (home or office-based) requiring regular evening and weekend working supporting our volunteers by attending virtual meetings and delivering online training.

Responsibilities:

• Training Plan Delivery: Provide functional support to Area Training Managers and District teams to ensure training plans are successfully delivered and adapted to meet the needs of the Sea Cadet Experience.
• Targeted Change Support: Support key District staff (including DTOs, DSOs, and RMC Troop Commanders) specifically during the change management process to ensure smooth operational transitions.
• Capacity Building: Collaborate with District Officers to increase the number of qualified, competent instructors, enhancing the overall capability to deliver training to cadets and volunteers.
• Technical Advisory: Act as the primary point of contact for ATOs, DTOs, and RMC Troops on all training matters, offering dedicated support to units identified as needing additional guidance.
• Programme Coordination: Work with the Virtual Training Manager to coordinate the delivery of approved training packages, including BTEC and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, across the organisation.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor performance against National Support Centre targets to ensure all cadets and adults have equitable access to training opportunities and the wider Sea Cadet Experience.

About you:

• Experience in working with youth groups and awareness and understanding on the challenges young people face
• Experience in coordinating and supporting a programme of training activity
• Experience in coaching and mentoring volunteers
• Experience of drawing data to create support plans for delivery of activity
• Experienced trainer with the ability to deliver engaging and impactful training

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack found on our site.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per annum, pro rata for part time employees, increasing with length of service
• Hybrid working for many roles
• Volunteering Leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to the Marine Society Digital Library
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

Additional Information:

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Cadet Training Manager, Growth Manager, Training Manager, Growth and Development Worker, Development Worker will be considered for this role.