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Service Development Manager
We are looking for an experienced and resourceful Service Development Manager to work closely with the CEO to establish and deliver a strong presence across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury.
This is an opportunity to join a supportive and purpose-driven team where your work will make a direct difference to families across Gloucestershire.
Position: Service Development Manager
Location: Remote/Gloucestershire, with regular travel across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury and occasional attendance at the Stroud office
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Salary: £38,000 pro rata (£30,811 actual salary for 30 hours per week)
Contract: 24-month fixed-term contract
Closing Date: 20th September 2026. This job opportunity may close early if we find an appropriate candidate before the closing date.
The Role
This is a hands-on role combining direct family support, project management, service development and partnership building. You will hold an appropriate caseload, develop new activity, build strong local referral pathways and help turn the countywide plans into practical support for families.
We need someone who is confident working independently, takes ownership, builds relationships quickly and can find practical solutions when there is no obvious route forward. The initial focus will be Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, but the role is designed to evolve as our countywide work develops.
Key accountabilities include:
- Service development and delivery
- Direct family support
- Project management
- Partnerships and referral pathways
- Funding, monitoring and sustainability
- Safeguarding and quality
The first year will focus on developing and delivering Home-Start services across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury. As the countywide work develops, the focus of the role may evolve to support wider service development across Gloucestershire.
For the first six weeks, the post will be predominantly based at the Stroud office for induction and orientation.
After this, the role will be mainly home and community based, with regular travel across Forest of Dean, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury and occasional attendance at the Stroud office.
About You
We are looking for someone who is practical, resourceful and motivated by making things happen.
You will be comfortable supporting a family one day and developing a new partnership or service the next and have enough frontline experience to understand what works for families and enough project-management discipline to turn ideas into effective delivery. You will not be joining a finished project with every detail already decided. We need someone who can understand the objective, identify what needs to happen next and move the work forward.
You will have experience of:
- Direct service delivery, ideally with families, children or communities
- Holding a caseload or providing ongoing one-to-one support
- Project management
- Developing or implementing new projects or services
- Building effective relationships with external organisations and professionals
- Working independently and taking responsibility for delivery
- Safeguarding and professional boundaries.
Practical requirements
You must:
- be able to drive;
- be willing and able to travel independently across Gloucestershire;
- be able to work predominantly from the Stroud office during the initial six-week induction period;
- subsequently be comfortable working from home and community locations;
- be confident using standard IT and case-recording systems.
If this sounds like you, then apply today!
About the Organisation
Join a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age. Trained home-visiting volunteers offer regular friendship, emotional, and practical support to help families experiencing a challenging time in their lives. The service is unique and also offers free support peer groups, antenatal, postnatal, and perinatal mental health services.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, faith groups, and socioeconomic circumstances, as well as from people who are disabled, neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, or from different age groups. We also value applications from those with caring responsibilities or non-traditional career paths.
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Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP
Thank you!
PURPOSE OF ROLE
As part of Caudwell Youth’s five-year strategy to Go National, this role will lead the development and delivery of the organisation’s first online mentoring service.
The Project Manager for Online Services will oversee the pilot, implementation and ongoing management of the programme, ensuring safe, accessible and high-quality support for young people. Working closely with the Deputy CEO and internal teams, the role will shape the future of Caudwell Youth’s digital support offer.
Key Duties
- Lead the pilot and implementation of Caudwell Youth’s national online mentoring programme.
- Manage the digital platform where the online mentoring will take place, ensuring it operates effectively and provides a user-friendly service.
- Working in conjunction with internal teams to develop evaluation and evidence outcomes of the pilot.
- Oversee the day-to-day delivery of the online mentoring programme, ensuring safe, consistent and effective support for young people.
- Understand and analyse user journeys, using the data and insight to shape current programmes and ensure continuous improvement of online services.
- Identify opportunities to expand reach and accessibility for young people who may face barriers to in-person support.
- Ensure robust safeguarding practices within digital mentoring environments with support from Deputy CEO.
- Ensure the programme provides consistent, safe and effective support for young people.
- Monitor programme performance and contribute to evaluation and reporting for internal learning and funders.
Coordination & Development
- Develop processes, guidance and resources to support safe and effective online mentoring.
- Develop and coordinate collaboration with stakeholders
- Carry out user research and usability testing with young people and mentors to continuously improve the service.
- Support the recruitment, onboarding and training of volunteer mentors delivering online mentoring.
- Provide guidance and support to volunteers to ensure they feel confident delivering mentoring in a digital environment.
- Develop and maintain risk management processes specific to online delivery.
Partnership & Liaison
- Communicate technical requirements and flag any issues to the online mentoring platform provider, to ensure the platform supports safe and effective service delivery.
- Collaborate with the team, and stakeholders in the design phase on the platform
General
- Undertake and identify training as required and take a positive approach to personal development.
- Fulfil the duties and responsibilities of an employee as regards to Health and Safety at Work, including own safety and self-management.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks deemed necessary.
Experience & Skills (Essential):
- Experience delivering or managing online or digital services, ideally within a support, education or youth-focused environment.
- Experience managing projects from development through to implementation, including coordinating multiple stakeholders.
- Experience supporting, coordinating or supervising volunteers or frontline staff.
- Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate teams and manage competing priorities.
- Ability to work collaboratively with technical teams (developers, designers or platform providers) with an understanding of user experience and accessibility.
- Experience carrying out user research or usability testing, and gathering data, feedback and evaluation to review and improve services.
- Ability to develop and implement processes and systems to support effective programme
Experience & Skills (Desirable):
- Experience working with young people, mentoring programmes, or wellbeing services.
- Knowledge of digital safeguarding and managing risk in online environments.
- Experience developing or launching new services, pilots or programmes.
- Experience working within a charity or non-profit organisation.
- Experience delivering or supporting national or remote services.
Why Work For Us
We are an experienced team that are dedicated to improving the lives of the young people we support.
Benefits:
- Flexible working
- Hybrid – working from home and in the community
- Private Healthcare (including Employee Assistance Programme and extended counselling sessions)
- Life Insurance
- Group Personal Pension with a 5% employer contribution and Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 25 days annual leave (FTE) plus bank holidays, plus charity closure between Christmas and New Year
- Extra paid day off on your birthday
- Paid day off for volunteering in your community
- Training opportunities to support your personal development
- Employee discounts on everyday goods and services
- Being part of a passionate and dedicated team
Caudwell Youth is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.
As an organisation supporting young people with care experience, with mental health and those at risk of criminal exploitation and offending, we are keen to receive applications from those with lived experience. For those who are care experienced, we will guarantee an interview.
We actively seek to bring diverse perspectives and experience, and especially welcome applications from disabled people and those from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic backgrounds and LGBTQIA+.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
The young people, children and families that we support are at the heart of everything we do at Mermaids. The work that we do has significantly expanded and we now need a highly effective and experienced Support Line Manager to join the organisation. The role is a core part of the our management team and will lead and manage our support line services.
Mermaids is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from those with lived experiences (directly or indirectly) and/or close ties to the LGBTQ+ community. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to join us and shape what we do. We are particularly keen to receive applications from BPOC (black and people of colour) and/or disabled and trans candidates.
Registered Charity
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Supporting trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children, young people and their families since 1995
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.