Stretching the City is a corporate wellbeing company, founded in 2010 by yoga teacher and wellbeing entrepreneur, Sally Lovett. Today, we boast a team of over 100 of the UK’s leading wellness teachers, experts and practitioners who deliver our workplace wellbeing services to our portfolio of 300+ global clients. Our business is growing by the day and we’re looking for leading teachers and team members to help deliver outstanding wellbeing services to our clients. See below for our current list of vacancies.
CLIENT ACCOUNT & MARKETING MANAGER: 6 MONTH CONTRACT to permanent
Stretching the City are looking for a motivated client account manager, who also happens to be a marketing whizz. Working for a small, but fast-growing company, your role will be roughly divided in two: Firstly – supporting the directors with the hands-on client account management and secondly – with the planning and execution of our marketing and comms.
Client Account Management
- Supporting the two directors, you’ll help respond to the influx of client enquiries in our inbox.
- Tasked with your own clients to look after, you’ll fulfil their bookings from start to finish, with our admin assistant supporting you along the way.
- With your excellent client servicing skills you’ll help ensure our clients are 100% happy with our services and return to us for their future bookings.
- You’ll proactively contribute to sales and sourcing new business.
- Proficient using Zoom, you’ll host (and sometimes record) some of our corporate webinars and classes.
Marketing & Communications
- Following the Stretching the City brand-guidelines, you’ll spruce up our facilitator’s powerpoint presentations and create assets for social media, newsletters and other comms.
- Pro-actively planning and executing a social media strategy (including Linkedin and instagram)
- Updating the website (using Wordpress)
- Writing relevant blog posts to a corporate audience
- Confident using Mailchimp, Canva, powerpoint, adobe (or other graphics programmes).
The ideal candidate:
- Possesses the motivation and initiative to work independently.
- Can work remotely, but is available for a meeting in Dorking Surrey, or Teddington, SW London at least once a month.
- Is a stickler for detail and thrives on organisation.
- Has proven client servicing, account management and marketing experience.
- Has an interest in wellbeing
- Meets the above requirements and can commit to the required hours.
Hours & Salary
- 28 net hours per week, spread over 4 days a week (must include Tues, Weds & Thurs) and hours must be worked between 9am-7pm. To support the growth of our American client base (and our UK clients working later), we ask that you’re available to work until 7pm 2 nights a week (with a later start in the morning).
- This is an employed role, working from home.
- Salary: £25,000-£30,000 pro rata (depending on experience)
- Start date: September 2021. 6 month contract to February 2022, with the view to extend or make permanent from February 2022 onwards.
To apply: Please send a CV and covering letter detailing your relevant experience to: sally@stretchingthecity.com. Closing date for applications 30 July 2021.
Yoga, Pilates & HIIT Teachers (Virtual & London based)
Whether it’s a regular weekly class, or a one-off event, our clients love their Yoga, Pilates and HIIT classes. As a Stretching the City teacher you’ll have a minimum of 2 years consistent teaching experience and bags of energy and enthusiasm. You’ll be a stickler for detail, keeping your students safe and adapting your class to suit all abilities.
Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years experience live ‘face to face’ teaching and minimum of 1 years virtual teaching experience.
- Experience teaching groups of at least 8 students.
- Copies of qualifications and insurance.
- For virtual classes:
- Complete confidence using Zoom to teach (and record classes if required)
- A clear, professional-looking space to teach from. Please send photos of your teaching space along with your CV and bio.
- For virtual HIIT classes: Ability to play an accompanying playlist via Zoom.
To apply: If you meet all the requirements, please send your CV, bio or a link to your website and a photo of your virtual teaching space to katy@stretchingthecity.com. Please do not send copies of your insurance or certification documents until asked to do so.
Coaches & Clinical Psychologists (Virtual & London based)
We’re recruiting chartered clinical psychologists to deliver our mental health workshops and webinars AND accredited coaches to deliver our wellbeing workshops and webinars. Both coaches and psychologists will have experience delivering workshops in person and online to a corporate audience. We’re looking for workshop leaders to deliver on topics including stress, resilience, overwhelm, burnout and mental health – and we’re also open to hearing about any topics you’d like to pitch to our corporate clients. You’ll have professional-looking powerpoint slides to accompany your workshop and make your sessions as interactive as possible, using chat, polls or Slido.
Requirements:
- Experience delivering workshops / webinars to corporate groups (not just individuals)
- Proficient delivering webinars on Zoom, Teams or Meets and using Powerpoint to create accompany slides.
- Confidence to include delegates, making the sessions as interactive as possible, whilst also keeping delegates psychologically safe.
- Accreditation from a professional body
- Professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
To apply: If you meet all the above requirements, please send your CV or bio, along with examples of your corporate experience to sally@stretchingthecity.com. Note we are not currently recruiting for coaches to deliver 1:1 coaching services.
Mindfulness Teachers (Virtual & London based)
Stretching the City mindfulness meditation teachers are passionate about sharing the plentiful benefits of mindfulness meditation with a corporate audience. You’ll be up to speed on all the latest studies and statistics proving the practice’s effectiveness, whilst confidently teaching mindfulness practices and techniques. Striking a balance between the practical and theoretical, you have an approachable, accessible teaching style, honed from at least 2 years of consistent meditation teaching.
Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years experience live ‘face to face’ teaching and minimum of 1 years virtual teaching experience.
- Experience teaching groups of at least 8 students.
- Copies of qualifications and insurance and accreditation from a mindfulness or meditation body (*Note we require specific meditation teaching qualifications – a yoga teaching qualification alone is not sufficient).
- For virtual classes:
- Complete confidence using Zoom to teach (and record classes if required)
- A clear, professional-looking space to teach from.
To apply: If you meet all the above requirements, please send your CV or bio, along with examples of your corporate experience to sally@stretchingthecity.com.