Can you help an ambitious charity scale its services and social impact over the next three years?  Build Up is recruiting a Programme Manager.

You’ll be joining an award-winning charity that supports young people to shape their local area. On our practical construction projects, young people design and build permanent, high-quality and accessible spaces for local communities.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who can understand the needs of small growing organisations, set up new systems and build operational capacity. You’ll be proactive, have solid experience in project management and business development and care about our organisation’s mission. As well as being able to think strategically and be highly organised, you’ll have an approach that is practical, friendly and flexible.

We value lived experience relevant to our young people, and strongly encourage applications from people of colour, minority ethnic backgrounds, working class communities and/or other underrepresented groups.

The role

You’ll be responsible for managing Build Up’s year-round programme, as well as setting up new projects and developing new business opportunities. You’ll work closely with our design and construction project managers to ensure all activities run to time and budgets. This role is key to our organisational development and alongside setting up new systems to support efficient working practices, we’d like you to strategically support our ongoing growth.

Who we are

Build Up’s purpose is to empower young people to shape where they live, and make decision-making in London’s built environment representative of its communities. We do this by running projects that put young people in control of the design and construction of permanent public and community spaces.

Key Details

Salary: £38,850 - 43,050 (pro rata), 8% employer pension contribution.

Hours: 3 days (22.5 hours) per week, flexible

Location: The role will involve regular face to face meetings, and initially 2 days a week in our Shoreditch office.

Start date: September 2022 (negotiable)

Applications

Candidates are welcome to discuss the role with Build Up’s Director Huan Rimington prior to applying.

Applications close June 19th 2022

We are seeking to appoint two new Programme Managers to manage our inspirational employability programmes.

The effect of the pandemic was felt the hardest in the disadvantaged communities we work in. Covid wiped out a decade of progress in improving social mobility. Our long-term strategy for supporting talented young people comes at the time when you are still 60% more likely to be in a professional job if you were from a privileged background rather than from a working-class background.

This evidence, set alongside the UK's acute skills shortage and ageing workforce, means that The Talent Foundry, with its partners, can make a huge difference in shaping young people's futures. With the right inspirational and targeted support young people can identify and access meaningful careers which will change their lives.

We work only in areas of high socio-economic deprivation. Every year we work with around 60,000 brilliant young people, creating and running programmes that are funded by some of the country’s major employers – Barclays, Dell, KPMG, M&G, the NHS, and Disney to name a few.

We also run a careers festival with a concert – Rock Assembly – which brings together 10,000 young people in Birmingham.

Over the last 12 years, we’ve worked with over 600,000 disadvantaged students from across 1,900 schools –we know how to help them build confidence in themselves and their talent and have the data to prove it.

We chose the name the Talent Foundry deliberately. In foundries, metal and other products are forged. Our goal is to help ‘forge’ talent.

The Programme Manager role and where it sits in the team

This is an established role that manages several of our long-term partnerships. With support from the Head of Programmes, the Programme Manager is responsible for ensuring TTF educational programmes are successfully delivered in partnership from conception to evaluation with funders, corporate partners and universities into schools and further education institutions.

We have two Programme Manager vacancies. One will line-manage a small team of Programme Co-ordinators, the other will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating our freelance School Facilitator network. 

You are:

You’ll be a brilliant project manager, someone who is great with people and likes to develop creative and inspiring activities in partnership with business and the public sector to engage and support young people. You can balance competing priorities and keep projects moving towards their goals. You are motivated by working collaboratively with funders and your team, yet comfortable making decisions after gathering insight and information.

Benefits

• Annual leave entitlement 28 days + Bank Holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working
• Pension  
• Training and development budget
• The afternoon of your birthday off (or the morning after)

We are open to hearing from candidates who are seeking part-time opportunities and/or job shares. This role will be hybrid working from home, with 2-3 days a month in London co-working space. 

Visit our website our website for full details of all current vacancies. 

To apply, please complete the application form with a 2-page (max) supporting statement paying particular attention to the responsibilities, skills and experience listed in the job overview document. CVs will not be accepted.

TTF is committed to embedding Equality and Diversity across all its work and believes that a diverse range of perspectives at all levels is essential for our legitimacy and effectiveness. We therefore strongly encourage applications from suitably experienced applicants from all walks of life who will continue to strengthen the diversity of our team. We would particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority candidates as they are under represented on our team at the present time.

The job holder’s responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person’s for whom they are responsible, or with whom they come into contact will be to adhere to and ensure compliance with the relevant Talent Foundry Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Procedures at all times. If in the course of carrying out the duties of the role, the job holder identifies any instance that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm either at school or at home, they must report this in line with the Safeguarding policy.

Community Links is a hub  tackling health and social inequality in East London and beyond. We work alongside the community helping people of all ages reach their full potential.  We take our local knowledge of what works to influence national decision making. We are proud to be part of Catch22. 

Mission - We work towards a world where your potential is not limited by your health or social circumstances.

Vision - We believe everyone can thrive if they have 3 basic things: good people around them, a good place to live and a purpose in life. We call these our 3Ps.

Values - Our ethos is to be driven by dreams and judged by delivery.

Catch22 is a social business which design and delivers services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. We believe that people can thrive when they have a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

All Catch22 services deliver at least one (and often all three) of these outcomes.

If you share our values and commitment to transforming people’s lives, get in touch!

Job Description

The Advice and Community Programme Manager is a new role managing two different, but complementary programme areas within Community Links; Advice Services and the Community Connectors programme. 

Ideally the manager will have experience in one or more of the following:

• Coordinating pro bono legal advice clinics
• Working within community mental health (as part of the NHS or VCSE sector)
• Delivering specialist free advice around debt, housing, welfare benefits.

About the Advice Services Team

Our advice team is made up of specialist advisors who help over 3,000 people a year across Debt, Welfare Benefits, Housing and Legal (employment, housing, and consumer).

About the Community Connectors Programme

The Community Connectors programme is an exciting partnership between Community Links, Aston Mansfield, Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham, and the NHS East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) due to launch in June 2022.

Additional information

lace of work: Community Links, with a minimum of three days a week in the office.

Hours of work: Full-time, 37 hours (part-time hours will also be considered)

Salary/Grade: £38,000 (Grade H)

Reports to: Assistant Director

Level of screening: Enhanced DBS

Community Links is totally committed to equality of opportunity and supporting diversity and inclusion in both services to the community and in the employment of people. Community Links expects all employees to understand and promote its policies in their work.

Community links are proud to be part of the Catch22 group. Catch22 exist to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

We are building a new generation of creative, innovative and globally responsible engineers who will find solutions to the biggest social and environmental challenges of our time.

Working closely with Engineers Without Borders UK colleagues and our programme partners, our Programme Manager will drive forward the success of our design challenges in the UK and internationally, inspiring and upskilling undergraduates around the world to become globally responsible engineers. You will significantly contribute to our goal to upskill 250,000 individuals by 2030.

While experience in education or engineering programmes might help you hit the ground running, it’s more important that you have excellent project and people management skills and a good understanding and interest in working with a variety of organisations and across cultures to achieve shared objectives.

The primary responsibilities will be:

• Building and managing relationships with our programme partners. You will co-develop and deliver programmes, negotiate and manage budgets and seek opportunities. 
• Coordinating and collaborating with our team to best deliver our programmes. You will take an approach that empowers others, utilising the skills and expertise they bring, whilst project managing, planning and communicating to ensure key milestones are reached.
• Recruiting and building successful relationships with educators. You will share insight into how to successfully deliver the programme, facilitate the sharing of good practice and highlight how the programme supports course accreditation and relevant skill development.
• Developing, managing and delivering learning materials. You will ensure that our online resources and the delivery of supporting workshops are inspiring, relevant, appropriate for the education level of the students
• Integrating the programmes within the movement. 
• Monitoring and evaluation to assess and grow the impact of the programmes.

Being a small team, everyone is expected to contribute and provide support to others in the delivery and improvement of the organisation. This is a great opportunity to develop broader skills and experience, as well as being part of a supportive, dependable team.

We are offering the role with flexibility on location, with the option to be remote (UK), hybrid, or office-based (London). The minimum expectation is one day per month in the office.

Please note: This role is based in the North of England and the Midlands and will involve travel across these regions.

As our Regional Programmes Manager, you’ll inspire and lead our team of remote-based Senior Project Workers and Project Workers to effectively deliver high-quality support services for kinship families across the North of England and some parts of the Midlands. You’ll do this by working in close collaboration with local authority teams across the North and the Midlands who have commissioned our services. You’ll also develop effective partnerships with other local authorities to secure commissions and generate income for services.

Your team will deliver the following programmes:

• Kinship Ready – online workshops to prepare new and prospective special guardians for their role, as well as wraparound one-to-one support
• Kinship Reach – remote one-to-one support and virtual support groups
• Kinship Connected – in-person one-to-one support and support groups in the community

This role is home-based with travel across the North and Midlands, as well as other parts of England and Wales from time to time.

About Kinship

Kinship is the leading charity in England and Wales for kinship carers – relatives and friends who raise children when their parents aren’t able to. We offer kinship carers expert advice as well as financial, legal, practical and emotional support and understanding from the moment they need it, for as long as they need it. We’re always there to help with the complicated and stressful decisions that so many kinship families have to make, as well as to celebrate the good times.

Working alongside kinship carers and the children they raise, with their voices and views at the fore, we build communities of support and give everything we have to fight for each family and their rights, as well as to raise awareness of kinship care and secure better support for all those playing this critical role.

In return, we offer 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time) and pension.

For further details about the role, please refer to the attached job specification.

To apply, please click the Apply button to send us your CV and cover letter, along with a completed Equal Opportunities form.

Closing date: 12.00 pm on Monday 30 May 2022.
Interview date: Week commencing 13 June 2022.

Challenge Partners offers practitioner-led school improvement programmes that are independently evaluated as effective. Our unique approach to programme management is critical to the success of our programmes.  The Programmes Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes and Evaluation and the programmes team, courageously leading  the delivery and development of consistently high-quality and relevant programmes and continuously improving these in light of programme evaluations. 

The Programmes Manager will have the following key areas of responsibility and will be expected to undertake other responsibilities commensurate with the role as requested:

Strategic leadership

• Use latest research and emerging leading practice to inform recommendations for the development of Challenge Partners’ programmes’ strategic direction

• Develop and maintain a practitioner-led network to ensure programmes remain current with the latest education research and relevant to schools 

• Present on programmes to internal and external stakeholders as required, including the recruitment of schools or school groups, and the facilitation of workshops or working groups

• Produce and share regular management information (financial and non-financial), and develop additional programme reports upon request. Develop hypotheses about Challenge Partners’ programmes, and use data to test these assumptions, and feed this into programme improvements

• Be an engaged member of the middle leadership team, providing input into the organisation’s strategy, future planning and priorities

Programme Management and Evaluation

• Oversee delivery of events, school visits, and associated activities which comprise the programme/s you have responsibility for

• Oversee the production and use of a risk management and action plan for programmes, updating leadership and trustee stakeholder groups as appropriate

• Oversee your team in budget setting and budget management throughout the delivery year. Manage over- or under-spends with internal and funding stakeholders

• Lead on the development and management of programme quality assurance processes 

• Identify all critical stakeholders. Maintain relationships with donors, school and trust leaders, service providers and other stakeholders as identified and take responsibility for resolving all queries and operational issues

• Define programmes’ governance arrangements and manage programme decision-making accordingly

• Lead on the onboarding and induction of schools to your areas of programme delivery each academic year, working with the Partnership and Network Development Team to ensure interdependencies are clear and well planned for 

• Support the Head of Programmes and Evaluation to deliver the internal and external programme evaluation strategy, drawing conclusions and appropriate actions and presenting these to leadership and trustee stakeholder groups as appropriate

• Work with the Communications, Marketing and Engagement Manager to demonstrate how the quality of our programme delivery aligns with Challenge Partners’ core objectives (including vision and values), and how we provide value for money for our stakeholders

Programme Development

• Support the Head of Programmes and Evaluation to develop and lead new programmes that align to, and improve delivery of, CP's core objectives

• Lead on the development of strategies for new programmes or the development of existing programmes, developing and maximising stakeholder relationships as required

• Manage any new or pilot programmes in their initial phases to ensure smooth transition to full programme delivery status.

• Make recommendations for programme development initiatives and lead on their implementation

Line Management 

• Ensure that your teams understand Challenge Partners’ strategy and the role they play within this

• Provide high-quality and consistent line management to your teams, including regular one-to-one meetings and performance reviews

• Support your teams’ development through access to appropriate opportunities, and identifying internal and external training needs to incentivise and retain high-performing staff

• Ensure direct reports have the management input, training, resources and guidance they need to undertake their roles effectively and efficiently. Including but not limited to:

  • Line management

  • Finance/budget

  • Risk management

  • Communication

  • Project Management

• Ensure that your teams work well with each other, members of the wider Central Team, and school leaders within the network

In addition to the skills and experience required to fulfil this role, we are looking for someone aligned to our mission and values (as available on our website), ambitious for Challenge Partners and the schools, trusts and young people we serve. The ability to move seamlessly between strategy development, programme management and operational delivery, as well as collaboration with colleagues and practitioners is essential - we are a small team and everyone is expected to get stuck in! A good understanding and/or experience of working with/within the English education system would be an advantage - if you do not have this yet, you will need to set out what you will do (with support and training from us) to gain this understanding.

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of experience delivering change within the NHS, as well as a wealth of experience in working successfully with community-based stakeholders. You should be passionate about wanting to change health inequalities, be resilient, enjoy stakeholder engagement at every level, and have a positive, can-do attitude.

This is an exciting time to join our Patient Projects team as we launch our Empowering People with Prostate Cancer (EPPC) project which aims to better educate and empower people living with prostate cancer.

This project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, aims to provide people living with prostate cancer with the information and support they need, at diagnosis, when considering further treatment options, thereby reducing treatment regret, and ensuring better quality of life outcomes. Central to this project is the creation of a new patient information and empowerment website, The Infopool.

This role will be instrumental in the development and delivery of this project, helping ensure the project achieves its ambitious outcomes. You will be instrumental in delivering on the EPPC project and expanding the Patient Project Department into new and more ambitious areas.

This project is part time, 3.5 days per week, and can be either fully remote working or flexible hybrid (our office is in Holborn). Some travel will be involved in this role.

Key Responsibilities 

• Build new and manage existing relationships with clinical stakeholders, including HCPs, NHS system managers, Cancer Alliances, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver a programme of outreach to healthcare professionals, ensuring the adoption of project resources and other organisational resources across target institutions.
• Develop a pilot project for a community-based approach to information prescribing, building new relationships with key stakeholders focused on most effectively reaching those with low health and digital literacy.
• Maintain a tracking and reporting system to ensure the project exceeds its targets and funding requirements are met.
• Support the Head of Patient Projects to define the project’s annual operational plan.
• Contribute to external events as a representative of PCR including attending national conferences, such as BAUN and BAUS.
• Help develop a system of Infopool champions in hospital-based and peer-led support groups to help advance the project’s objectives.
• Input into new project development as well as funding proposals, bids, and pitches to help expand the breadth and depth of the project and ensure the development of new projects for the department.
• Think strategically about opportunities to connect this project and its users with other priorities of the department and organisation.
• Undertake any other relevant duties and projects delegated by the Head of Patient Projects in line with the responsibilities of the post and the aims of the department.

Skills and Competencies 

The candidate must have the following:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field and continuing professional development in a relevant field. 
• Creativity, critical thinking, and multiple years of strong project/ programme management skills and experience.
• An awareness of health inequalities and a desire to make a difference.
• Experience working with government departments and the NHS.
• Knowledge of the UK’s health and care research landscape.
• An ability to manage multiple stakeholders, competing expectations and priorities in a sensible way that ensures delivery and success.
• Demonstrable experience of building strong working relationships with people at all levels across stakeholder organisations.
• An entrepreneurial, pro-active mindset with maturity and emotional intelligence.
• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively both internally and with a range of partners across healthcare and beyond. This includes patients, academia, industry, the NHS, and government.
• An ability to work autonomously, prioritise, organise, identify, manage, and mitigate risks, and plan own workload and deliver results consistently.
• Good IT skills, particularly in the use of MS Office, Teams, Zoom and web applications.
• An ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines, or where deliverables can change at short notice.
• A strong belief in the work we do.

The Youth Endowment Fund

Programme Manager 

Reports to: Head of Programmes, Youth Endowment Fund 

Salary: £41,225 - £43,394 dependent on experience  

Location: Central London/ Hybrid (expectation of a least 2 days per week in office if based in Central London) 

Application Closing: Wednesday 8th June 2022. 

About the Youth Endowment Fund 

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice. 

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.  

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by funding great initiatives, finding what works and working for change - scaling and spreading the practices that make a difference.  

Key Responsibilities 

Deciding which projects, we should fund and evaluate is key, as is making sure we deliver our funding and evaluations to the highest standards. Our Programme Managers are responsible for identifying, assessing, funding and supporting programmes designed to prevent youth violence.

Our Programme Managers span many areas of expertise. We look for individuals who may have experience in the youth sector, policing, criminal justice, education or how to involve local residents in making decisions about their own neighbourhoods.

If you have specific expertise in any of our funding themes or in place-based projects, we want to hear about it in your cover letter.

As a Programme Manager at YEF, you would work very closely with our evaluation team to make sure we learn from what’s being implemented and that the organisations we fund are prepared and excited to work with us to find what works.  
 

To achieve this, you will: 

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with through assessing funding applications, getting to know potential grantees and conducting site visits. You will check carefully all the initiatives we fund to ensure they are good things for us to fund.

• Work closely with potential grantees, external evaluators and our own evaluation team to ensure that the activity we are funding will be evaluable. This requires you supporting and advising potential grantees.

• Build strong relationships with our grantees and provide them with ongoing management and support through the life of their funding. You will also be responsible for monitoring the performance of grantees and ensuring targets are met and any project risks are effectively mitigated.

• Think strategically about how we design new funding rounds to achieve our overall goals and then manage those rounds excellently. You will help to design what our funding rounds are meant to achieve, will design grant application processes to achieve it, and manage our engagement with potential applicants to make sure we are attracting a diverse and promising portfolio of organisations to apply. 

• Report to our team and external stakeholders regularly on our funding portfolio to identify the emerging support needs of our potential and existing grantees and propose recommendations to address these needs. 

• Represent the Youth Endowment Fund at external events. 

About You 

You are this sort of person: 

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in a charity that is making a difference.

• You want to work in a job that makes young people safer. This issue matters to you. You don’t need extensive experience in grant making, you just have to be committed to learning it, but you do have to understand the sectors we work with, the challenges facing young people and what organisations face when implementing delivery programmes.

• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: policing, education, social care or the youth sector. 

• You have incredible judgement. You are able to reach sound and considered judgements about the viability and suitability of applicants based upon our given criteria, often using detailed written and financial information, and are able to deliver constructive feedback to organisations. You can also identify when things aren’t going to plan and be proactive with sharing observations and recommendations. 

• You are an optimiser. You look for solutions and think creatively to overcome challenges. You are curious, hungry to learn and always looking for ways to improve processes and increase efficiency and impact. 

• You love well-designed systems. You are committed to designing and maintaining the best systems to make sure we manage our funding rounds well. You know this is critical to effectively managing multiple, large-scale funding programmes and competing priorities. 

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with people at every level inside and outside the organisation and have managed large networks of stakeholders with different interests and priorities. You are excellent at customer service and can professionally handle issues that come up within your grant portfolio. 

• You work very well in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed. You don’t care who gets the credit as long as things get done. 

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values. 
   

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence. 

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. 

This position will require a DBS check to be performed, but a record is not a block to performing this role. 
 

To apply  

To apply, please send a CV and cover letter, and complete the monitoring form via our application page by 23:59 Wednesday 8th June 2022. 

You’ll be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.  

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 20th June 2022. 

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.  
  

We exist to fund research into beating blood cancer. In the past 60 years, we’ve invested more than £500 million into blood cancer research. This had led to improved treatments, and saved lives. Recently, we’re proud to have formed the Blood Cancer Vaccine Research Collaborative with Myeloma UK, Anthony Nolan, and the British Society for Haematology. The aim of the Collaborative is to fund to studies collecting data from Covid-19 vaccinated blood cancer patients, and to subsequently fund a meta-analysis of pooled data sets from all the various studies. The Collaboration has awarded ~£1.7M across 15 studies to date. This post will ensure that our Research programme works to beat blood cancer and deliver impactful and patient focussed results. 
 

Your role as Programme Manager is to complete this programme. This varied role will include ensuring strong governance of the programme at every level, international relationships, research funding, and communicating findings to the relevant and appropriate audiences.  

We’re also going to develop a programme to engage effectively with our funded researchers and monitor activity and outputs from our research project. As the Vaccine Research Programme comes to a close, you’ll then be developing the landscape map and horizon scanning for blood cancer research, identifying potential researchers, breaking results to identify potential funding calls, researchers and partners to engage with.  

This role is open to job share, and part time applications (minimum 0.8FTE)

Grassroots Movements Programme Manager

Are you someone with experience of being involved with social movements and work within the grant-making field? Are you excited at the prospect of being able to co-design a new funding stream to support social movements?

We’re looking for a dynamic individual to co-lead our new funding programme for social movements aimed at resourcing movements that are situated on the frontlines of social and environmental injustice, and who are striving for transformative change.

You will need to have a good understanding of both these worlds, experience of participatory processes, exceptional communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with a range of groups and audiences

The movements fund has emerged within JRCT through a careful process of learning, listening and consultation. The fund is rooted in a movement led decision-making process and will be allocating £1 million over 3 grant rounds in 2022-23. This fund is more important than ever in the context of deep structural inequalities and injustices within our society.

For more information and to apply:

• Download the application pack 
• Send your CV and cover letter by 29th May
• Interviews will take place on the 17th June in London

We welcome all applicants and are keen to enhance our team to reflect the diversity of the UK and the communities we serve.  We would like to encourage applications from disabled people, those from LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and those experiencing other forms of marginalisation, as they are underrepresented at this level.

Please apply via our website.

• Job Title:  Programme Manager – Sierra Leone
• Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone (with frequent nationwide travel within Sierra Leone)
• Salary banding: £25,000 - £34,000 per annum depending on experience
• Contract: Two years, with possible option of extension

Street Child is seeking an outstanding candidate with the ambition, skill and tenacity to drive programme delivery and quality in our flagship Sierra Leone country programme. You will be joining an agile and fast-growing global organisation, working for children's futures in 20 fragile, conflict and crisis affected countries. This role reports to the Sierra Leone & Liberia Country Representative, working alongside several other Street Child UK staff in country, as well as Street Child’s excellent national partners, in particular Street Child of Sierra Leone who are presently delivering several significant FCDO grants as well as projects with various other partners including the Government of Sierra Leone. Key to this role, the successful candidate will look to drive the implementation of high quality, impactful education programmes in partnership with local actors whilst also supporting our wider work across the country. Our portfolio is growing, with several innovative new programmes coming online, presenting an excellent opportunity for a successful candidate to be at the forefront of education programming in Sierra Leone.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme management (70%)

• Provide rigorous and adaptive programme management to drive quality in our education interventions across our programme portfolio;
• Work closely with Street Child’s national partners to ensure on-time and on-budget programme delivery, with an emphasis on impact and value for money
• Work alongside the Sierra Leone and Liberia MEL Lead and partners to support the development and implementation of robust MEL systems and conducting frequent field monitoring visits
• Support strong  programme reporting, completing SCUK internal reports and preparing donor narrative and financial reports in collaboration with national partners
• Lead on budget management across all live projects, liaising with partner and SC UK finance teams
• Directly provide partner capacity development support in priority areas, as required

Resource mobilisation (30%)

• Support high level proposal and budget development as required alongside the Sierra Leone Country Representative and/or local partners;
• Represent Street Child in interactions with donors, networks, government and other stakeholders in all relevant fora, in collaboration with the Country Representative;
• Support Sierra Leone based events in coordination with SCUK fundraising teams, including the Sierra Leone marathon, bike rides & international teacher training programme.

We are looking for:

• A dynamic, positive, personable professional with a track record of delivering education programmes in partnership with local partners;
• A proven track record in driving programme quality and impact in education programming and a sound awareness of equity and inclusion;
• A passion for extending Street Child’s capacity, and that of our partners (especially our unique lead local partner, ‘Street Child of Sierra Leone’, to serve children in Sierra Leone

Benefits

• Living allowance of $500 pcm
• Comprehensive travel and life insurance
• 1* Return R&R flight per year in addition to start and end of contract flights
• 25 days annual leave + public holiday
• Access to L&D funding for short, medium and long term training to support your professional development

Please note that this role is unaccompanied and not suitable for candidates looking for a family posting.

How to apply

To express your interest in this role please send your CV and covering letter to our recruitment email address as set out in the attached job description by Tuesday 24th May 2022. Your cover letter should include why you want this role and why you are a suitable candidate, outlining your relevant experience.We will review applications as they are received so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.  We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should a suitable candidate be identified before the advertised end date.

Diversity is important to us at Street Child and so we especially welcome applications from candidates with backgrounds typically under-represented in the sector and/or reflect the communities we seek to serve.

Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy.

An opportunity to lead as our Programme Manger in a role designed to shape and deliver our life -changing deveopment programme to young people engaged in sport across London. 

This is a part time role with flexible working days equivalentto 2.5 days per week, aligned to the demands of the role.

We are recruitng a Programme Manger to oversee the work involved in delivering our overarching programme. This will  mean being responsible for the continued content creation and design of the programme syllabus; being part of and managing the team of BEK trainers to deliver the syllabus to the 22/23 cohort of young people and working with the Executive Director and other members of the professional team, trustess and partner organisations to ensure the integration of the programme into the wider scope of BEK's activities. 

Specific responsibilities

• Plan, develop, deliver and evaluate the BEK Development syllabus in conjunction with support from the Trainers Team and where relevant, partner organisations.
• Work with the Executive Director to recruit to the BEK Development Trainer Team as required.
• Manage the BEK Development Trainer Team, to include supervising and scheduling the BEK Development programme delivery.
• Manage processes associated with the Trainer Team’s preparation and review of each BEK Development delivery cycle.  
• Ensure that the development and delivery of the BEK Development programme matches the organisation’s aims and strategic goals.
• Initiate and develop relationships with relevant stakeholders (including the young people we work with, sports coaches and teachers) to support the development of programmes - ensuring overall design and delivery is of a high standard.
• Accurately monitor progress on programmes (including budgets, income and expenditure) as supported by the Executive Director.
• Manage communications with all stakeholders - including schools and clubs - to ensure timely awareness of programme arrangements, permissions and any other regulatory or specific requirements.
• Report at regular intervals to the Executive Director and from time to time, trustees and   funders and other stakeholders, on programmatic activity and progress at regular intervals.

Person specification

The Programme Manager should show effective leadership, high quality delivery skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills to be able to successfully deliver on the responsibilities of the role.

They will be an adept project manager, able to multitask in order to plan and deliver the BEK Development programme across different sites throughout each delivery cycle. They will be a good communicator who is able to update relevant stakeholders with the progress of the delivery cycle and any of our varied programmes at both the design and implementation stages. 

They should be able to develop and track the BEK Development programme budgets accurately. 

They will be solutions driven and able to take initiative, seek advice and support where they face challenge.

They will have excellent relationship building skills, enabling them to connect with the young people who participate on the programme, the Trainers Team who they manage, and the wider BEK executive team and trustees.  

As a small charity, there is likely to be opportunity for the Programme Manager to support in other areas of the charity to enable ongoing growth and a successful Programme Manager will demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit and a wiliness to drive the charity forward.

Essential Qualities

• Experience in teaching, training, coaching and/or facilitation.
• Experience of programme content creation/design. 
• Knowledge, understanding and/or lived experience of the power of sport.
• Demonstrable experience of working with young people aged 15 plus and leading multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.
• An ability to plan and manage budgets.
• Experience of working both independently and within a team.
• Ability and experience managing and reporting. 
• The ability to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable Qualities

• Knowledge of the Third Sector. 
• An understanding and interest in sports/performance psychology.

What we can offer you: 

Great hands-on experience and development opportunities. 

Charity sector experience.

Insights into charity operations, relationships development and stakeholder engagement.

High levels of responsibly commensurate with the way the role develops.

Supportive, working environment.

Application Information and Further Details

This role is advertised as a part time position equivalent to 2.5 days per week, but to be spread in some weeks over Monday to Friday depending on the delivery schedule.

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Future Foundations’ mission is to equip young people to thrive. Our vision is a world where every young person makes the transition into adulthood with the foundations they need for their future.

The objective of the 'AWS Get IT' programme is to inspire more young people, and especially girls, to get into IT and gain digital skills.

• Location:  Future Foundations, Devas Club, 2a Stormont Road, London SW11 5EN (Hybrid working)
• Hours: Full time - Five days a week (35 hours a week).
• Annual leave: Starting at 28 days annual leave, plus 8 days Bank Holidays.  Plus a day off for your birthday
• Start Date:  Ideally, we would like someone to start on the 8th August. 

You will be required to complete and Enhanced DBS check for this role, as well as at least 2 referecnes including from your last employer.

Please note that forst round interviews will be at our offices the week of the 13th June, and second round interviews will also be at our offices the week of the 2th June.

Programme Manager Role for the AWS GetIT Programme

The Programme Manager will be the lead for this programme which is currently in its 4th Year with the main oversight of all the programme elements for the UK.

Programme Management

• To manage project and operational plans to include oversight of; timelines, actions and deadlines by the team
• To manage the budget for the programme; creating a budget forecast and reporting on P&L to senior management
• To ensure that systems are in place for the efficient management of schools within our system (Citrix Podio)
• To ensure that key targets are being met, and taking reasonability for action where the targets are at risk of not being met
• To report to senior management in FF and AWS on project progress
• To attend weekly client calls; ensuring actions are followed up by the team
• To deliver training and presentation to AWS Ambassadors as part of their training or information events
• To work with client to ensure all communications and documents go through the correct checking procedures for legal and PR sign off
• To ensure all FF policies and procedures are being followed to ensure safe and high-quality programme design and delivery

School Engagement:

• To work systematically to engage and recruit schools onto the programme within a certain time period
• To ensure the correct target audience are being reach
• To ensure continued school engagement throughout the programme, and manage withdrawals from the programme in line with targets
• To oversee all communication with schools such as email campaigns, phone calls and online events
• To ensure effective communication is ongoing with schools to keep them up to date with all programme information, and that key stages are being completed
• To ensure that all stages of the programme are on track, and that there are effective systems in place to ensure clear data for each of these
• To ensure impeccable records of all communication with schools and that all documentation is kept up to date at all times
• To work with AWS to ensure ambassadors are paired with appropriate schools

Event Management:

• To ensure that all attendance for events is accurately recorded
• To liaise with client to ensure clear roles and responsibilities are defined, along with clear timelines / deadlines for actions
• To liaise with schools about in person events, such as the winners day, to ensure that health and safety and safeguarding considerations are clearly discussed and responsibility for these areas is defined.  This will include creating documents to support this.
• To ensure that all FF policies and procedures are being followed to ensure safe and high-quality programme design and delivery, such as creation of Risk Assessments and adherence to safeguarding protocols
• To ensure that all events, either in person or virtual, are attended by an FF presentative, as required
• To ensure that any materials or kit for events is ready and delivered as required, with the support of the Office Manager

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Qualification- Degree or equivalent

Desirable Qualification- PRINCE2 or similar project management qualification or equivalent experience

Essential Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year of project management in a workplace context
• A background of successful school engagement
• Experience working in the youth or education sector
• Strong operational and logistical experience
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Strong decision-making skills
• Ability to remain calm and focused
• A passion for working with young people
• Able to balance competing priorities
• Able to work in a team and independently
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of using CRM systems
• Experience of using WordPress
• Experience of data handling, including an understanding of UK GDPR and data security
• Experience of presenting to groups or leading training sessions online
• Ability to use internet technology (e.g. YouTube, blogs, Prezi) to produce high quality social media

My international Charity client are looking for an experienced Programme Manager, preferably from a similar international charity, to develop and manage the PMO function and manage and lead the next stage of the Microsoft 365 programme, from shaping the approach to achieving the desired outcomes through to delivery.

The position involves:

• Coordinating projects and resource management within the programme
• Stakeholder and sponsor communications
• Reporting
• Program financial management

Your main responsibilities will be to

• Design, manage and successfully implement phase 2 of the Microsoft 365 programme globally
• Working closely with the Programme Sponsor and the CIO, clearly define and articulate the programme’s benefits, ensuring that the various component projects and activities within the programme remain in alignment with the delivery of the benefits.
• Lead and coordinate the work of project managers working on projects within the overall programme.
• Compile and create the Business Case for the change through workshop facilitation, current and future state, gap analysis, Change requirements (people, process, technology) and execution of this into the organisation through a tranche or workstream based programme plan.
• Create approval documentation, including the Programme Brief and Business Case, from the change vision and support the approval process.
• Ensure effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the M365 programme. Ensure the delivery of products and/or services from tranches/workstreams meets the appropriate level of quality on time and within budget.
• Establish the Office 365 programme organisation, stakeholder matrix and communications plan. Identify and facilitate the recruitment/secondment of additional core resources required for the programme.
• Manage the overall programme budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivery and for forecasting future spend.
• Managing the dependencies and interfaces between tranches/workstreams and projects within the M365 programme.
• Managing any contributions from 3rd parties (e.g. Microsoft and Microsoft partners) and internal SME resources, including the business.
  Project Management Office (PMO)
• Review and advise on project controls and associated templates for the Technology portfolio of projects and programmes and aligning these to other project controls already in use at IHQ.
• Drive the use of the Edison 365 PMO tool within IHQ IT and align with the PMO SharePoint site.
• Set up and operate efficient and consistent portfolio reporting against all Technology projects addressing both qualitative and quantitative aspects of projects to support governance decision making
• Create, maintain and socialise a Technology PMO SharePoint site providing news, information and project resources that supports or references the Technology Portfolio and is aligned to other PMO or project functions within IHQ – e.g. the IFAS project.
• Ensure all Technology projects have appropriate and consistent governance structures and that governance is active and continuous
• Working alongside the CIO, create Technology Portfolio updates and internal communications for governance bodies (e.g. Risk & Management Committee) and for publication internally on SharePoint or TEAMS
• Support the IHQ-IT and all departments with Technology enabled Business Change projects to adopt and operate project methodologies and to use the correct project control templates
• Review the Technology portfolio to identify and report risks, issues, conflicts and interdependencies, and to ensure these are addressed appropriately
• Once the PMO is fully established, Identify how to extend this practice and reach across supported territories in the Shared Tenant
• Working with project managers and the Service Transition Manager to ensure projects transition into Business As Usual
• Working with project managers and business leads, ensure that there are clear mechanisms in place for measuring and reporting against project benefits as projects transition into Business As Usual

Experience and role related knowledge

• Significant experience of leading and successful delivery of large complex technical change programmes
• Significant experience of end to end programme management for a large complex organisation from Discovery, definition, business case, procurement, training, user acceptance testing, implementation to closure and benefits realisation.
• Experience of defining resource requirements to deliver a complex cloud based infrastructure replacement programme, securing project resources, matrix management, supporting team members to manage the balance between successful programme delivery and BAU activity.
• Proven ability to establish credibility and work with senior leaders to ensure the programme and territorial projects are aligned with strategic direction and deliver the desired capabilities and benefits
• Expert knowledge of techniques and tools for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes, including risk management
• Proven ability to establish and maintain robust programme governance structures; facilitating effective working relationships between the programme management team, project teams and 3rd party suppliers.
• Experience of working with programme boards to develop compelling programme vision statements, Blueprints and defining individual projects to deliver new capabilities.
• Proven success in delivering onsite leadership by building and motivating team members to meet project goals
• Good technical understanding of the MS 365 collaboration stack including, Exchange, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint Online
  
  Qualifications and training
• A professional qualification such as Prince 2 (Practitioner) or is an APM certified project manager and/or MSP certified or similar in Agile project management.
• Educated to University degree level or equivalent in a professional or related discipline