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We're looking for an experienced programme lead who will design an impactful year-round programme to help our young people understand and explore professional careers, build the skills and competencies employers value, and develop the confidence and insight to secure their first professional role.

About the Role

You’ll use youth insight, sector benchmarks, collaborative brainstorming and your own expertise to decide what our programme needs to achieve for young people. You’ll then design a programme that gets there, measure what works and adjust.

Our programme year includes a two-week work experience residential each summer, one or two three-day in-person programmes, and a year-round online offer. Our programme is delivered largely by volunteers and in partnership with employers who offer things like skills workshops, mock interviews, CV reviews and career chats. You'll design the overall programme, train and support the people who deliver it, and show the difference it makes through clear data and reporting for our funders, donors, trustees and the public.

You'll line manage our Youth Engagement Coordinator, who holds our relationships with young people, and leads their recruitment and onboarding. You'll also work closely with the rest of our small team: our Team Administrator, who looks after programme logistics and admin, our Supporter Engagement Coordinator, who holds our relationships with volunteers, our Employer Partnership Lead, who holds our relationships with employer partners, and our CEO, who provides strategic leadership across our work and leads on grants and trusts fundraising.

We're looking for someone who thinks strategically and creatively, who's naturally curious about what works and why, and who's driven by real outcomes for young people.

You don't need experience in every area below. If you bring strong programme design and impact measurement experience and you're ready to grow in the rest, we'd love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

 Programme design

• Design our annual programme for young people, including the summer work experience residential, three-day residentials, and the year-round online offer
• Set clear outcomes for each part of the programme, and design volunteer-led content, sessions and activities that achieve them
• Use impact findings and feedback from young people to keep improving what we deliver
• Identify new programme ideas, drafting a case for support for each and contributing to fundraising efforts to secure the resources needed to deliver

Programme delivery

• Line manage and develop the Youth Engagement Coordinator
• Train and oversee volunteers and alumni programme coordinators to deliver programme activities
• Ensure our programmes are safe and inclusive
• Use resources efficiently and responsibly, delivering within available budgets

Impact and reporting

• Decide what we want to learn from each programme activity, and design the before and after data collection to find out
• Analyse impact data after each activity, giving a quick read on how the programme is performing and where it should go next
• Run an annual alumni survey to track how young people progress after they leave us
• Build and maintain a clear dashboard that brings together our historical and routine impact data
• Draft impact reports for grant funders and partners
• Write our annual impact report
• Share our impact through social media and our website
• Provide information and data for quarterly trustee reports and meetings
• Support grant applications and pitches by drafting cases for support and providing impact data

The role will require some overnight stays in London during our in-person programmes and the postholder will join our quarterly in-person team days.

Application tip: In your CV, please highlight any experience you have doing any of the above. We don’t expect you to have done all of this before, but show us what you have done!

Who we’re looking for

It’s essential we find someone with:

• Strong programme design skills, with the strategic awareness to set clear, impactful outcomes and the creativity to shape activities that achieve them
• Strong analytical skills, including designing surveys and making sense of quantitative and qualitative data
• Confidence using spreadsheets and data visualisation tools to analyse and present data
• A strong writer's ability to turn data into clear, compelling reports and cases for support that tell the story behind the numbers
• The ability to turn ideas into realistic plans and see them through
• Effective budgeting and project management skills
• A drive to keep improving, using evidence and feedback to adjust what isn't working
• A clear understanding of and commitment to safeguarding and inclusive practice
• A collaborative approach to working with colleagues, volunteers and partners, and a talent for helping others grow and do their best work

The role will require an enhanced DBS check.

It's also desirable if you:

• Have used dashboard tools such as Power BI, or are keen to learn how
• Understand the career and employment landscape young people are facing today, or are keen to spend time learning about it
• Understand social mobility and the socioeconomic and geographic barriers our young people face
• Have experience recruiting, training and supporting volunteers or sessional staff
• Have experience of line management
• Have experience working with corporate partners or employer volunteers
• Have experience designing programmes for young people

Application tip: Use your application to outline how you fit the above description, with specific examples that demonstrate your strengths. While AI can be a useful tool in drafting your application, please ensure your application reflects authentic detail about your experience and reflects your unique voice. It's easy to spot generic responses, and these aren't likely to be successful. 

What we can offer

 Salary and pension: We are offering an FTE salary for the role of between £32,000 and £35,000 FTE, pro-rated. We also provide a 3% employer contribution NEST pension.

Hours: We envision the role as 4 days per week (28 hours) but we are open to applications from candidates seeking a 3 day (21 hours) or 5 day (35 hours) role.

As a remote and largely part-time team, we offer a great deal of flexibility. We need someone who can commit to some regular team meetings, including quarterly away days which might fall outside of your normal working pattern. Otherwise, we trust you to set the schedule which works best for you.

Annual leave: You will be entitled to 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (these will be pro-rated to reflect your hours).

Location: Our team works remotely. The team does meet in London quarterly for away days, for which travel is paid for. Remote participation is possible to accommodate access needs. You must live in and have the right to work in the UK.

Training and Development: You'll be supported to develop an annual development plan and will have an annual six-hour coaching package with an independent coach. We're keen to support your individual development, and we take time together once a month for a shared team learning session.

Contract: This is a permanent role. You will have a probation period of 6 months and a notice period of two months.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging: As a strengths-based organisation, we value the unique perspectives, experiences and insights that each person brings to our team. We are a small, agile and highly flexible team committed to continual improvement. We believe in equity, diversity and inclusion and welcome all candidates to apply, especially those who can bring lived experience similar to the young people we support.

We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments to make the recruitment process more accessible. We use anonymised recruitment to reduce the impact of bias in recruitment.