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Job Title: Innovation and Practice Manager – Youth Homelessness
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: £37,221 – £41,741
Location: London
Closing Date: Monday 5th January 2026
Interviews: w/c 12th January 2026
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for an Innovation and Practice Manager to join our Services team.
About us
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills so they can move into education, training and employment. Our ambition is to end youth homelessness by 2037.
Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.
About the role
This is an exciting new role focused on developing, testing and embedding innovative and best-practice approaches to ending youth homelessness.
You’ll work across Centrepoint and with external partners to coordinate innovation activity, develop replicable service models, influence practice nationally, and ensure that learning is captured, evaluated and shared widely. A strong emphasis of the role is co-production, ensuring young people and frontline practitioners shape everything we do.
Centrepoint operates a hybrid working model
The requirement is a minimum of 50% of your working week in the office. For most full-time colleagues, this means attending the office for five days over a two-week period (e.g. two days one week and three days the next). This will be adjusted accordingly for part-time or compressed hours contracts.
What you’ll be doing
- Programme managing Centrepoint’s work to develop a replicable model to end youth homelessness across local authority areas
- Coordinating innovation activity across services and partner organisations to ensure consistency, oversight and learning
- Keeping abreast of best practice in youth homelessness in the UK and internationally
- Developing best-practice tools and resources for commissioners and practitioners
- Engaging and influencing local, regional and national partners to improve service delivery
- Supporting evaluation, learning and dissemination of innovation outcomes
- Ensuring meaningful co-production with young people and professionals with lived experience
What we’d be looking for from you…
- Experience delivering, commissioning or managing services within a housing, homelessness or social care context
- Strong understanding of the issues affecting young people at risk of homelessness
- Experience coordinating projects or programmes involving multiple stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels
- Strong written skills, including producing reports and materials for external audiences
- A genuine commitment to reducing youth homelessness and amplifying young people’s voices
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of benefits including:
- 25 days annual leave per year, rising to 27 with service
- Healthcare cash plan (including dental, optical and therapies)
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contribution of 5%
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within our organisation. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including those with lived experience of homelessness.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join Centrepoint as an Innovation and Practice Manager – click ‘Apply’ now!
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Harris Hill is proud to be partnering with the Community Land Trust Network to recruit a New Business, Partnerships and Innovation Manager — an exciting opportunity to join a highly respected national charity championing land justice, community ownership and social equity.
About the Role
Accountable to: Chief Executive Officer
Salary: £45,200–£55,200 (depending on skills and experience)
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract, with potential to become permanent
Working Hours:
· 3 days / 21 hours per week (with reduced duties), or
· 4 days / 28 hours per week
Working pattern negotiable
Location: Remote/home-based
This newly created role will play a pivotal part in expanding the charity’s income and influence. You will:
- Lead on new business development, nurturing existing supporters and securing new partnerships with developers, housing associations, local authorities, funders and other stakeholders.
- Shape and grow their consultancy and service offer, helping reduce reliance on grant funding.
- Support the roll-out of their Growth Lab, working with practitioners and community groups to develop innovative models, products and services for Community Land Trusts.
- Capture insights, impact and learning to strengthen the case for scaling these innovations.
- Work closely with the CEO on funding proposals, partnership development and strategic initiatives.
This role offers variety, influence and the chance to help shape a major area of the charity’s future work. The team operates fully remotely, with a warm, collaborative culture and a strong focus on wellbeing.
About You
They are looking for someone who:
- Has experience in partnerships, business development, philanthropy or account management — and enjoys turning opportunities into long-term relationships.
- Communicates with clarity, confidence and professionalism across sectors including business, charity, local government and community groups.
- Is entrepreneurial, proactive and excited by innovation and co-creation.
- Shares a commitment to social justice, equity and community-led change.
Key Dates
- Closing date: Monday 5th January 2026
- Interviews: Week commencing 12th January 2026
How to Apply
Please email Hannah Laking at Harris Hill to request the full job pack, or you can download it directly from this advert. If you’d like to learn more about the role, you’re welcome to book a call with Hannah. Alternatively, you can simply send your CV and supporting statement which must follow the structure outlined in the job pack before the closing date, and Hannah will get in touch.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
