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Programme Manager - Education
Location: Leeds based with some national travel (in addition to home-based work)
Full Time and/or Part-time (30 hours per week minimum) 12 Month FTC - Maternity leave cover
Salary: circa £40k dependent on experience
Deadline: Close of Business 10th March 2025
Overview
We are looking for a proactive self-starter who will support employers nationally to help young people realise their potential. You will build on our success to date and take forward flagship careers and skills programmes that help young people to find their future in key sectors of the economy. You will develop our supporter base, grow our network of education and employer partners across the country and lead the implementation of exciting projects and events led by employers from a range of different sectors. This is a crucial role in stepping up our work in the region and is an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who is committed to the future of the West Midlands to work with a purpose-led passionate and successful team.
Housekeeping
- Working hours - a standard full-time week is 37.5 hours, with flexible start and finish times.
- The role is based in Leeds, however, there will be travel and client delivery across the UK. This could include overnight stays as required (with reasonable notice provided).
- There is a requirement to be in the office a minimum of 2-3 days per week. Beyond this, flexible working and other arrangements happily considered.
- Flexibility on your part will be expected and unsociable hours may be required.
- It is necessary to have access to a car and a full clean driving licence as delivery on programme may be in locations that are hard to access through public transport
- All staff are required to undertake a Criminal Record Bureau/DBS check upon joining.
About us
Since 2004, we have partnered with leading employers across the UK to help them maximise their social impact and be a force for good in their communities. We do this by co-creating flagship careers and skills programmes with employers that help young people to find a successful future in key sectors of the economy.
We are passionate about the role that employers can play in enabling young people to achieve their full potential, regardless of background. Our work focuses on improving social mobility, removing barriers and supporting greater diversity and inclusivity within the future workplace.
We lead the way in developing professional, tailored programmes of careers and skills engagement with employers that open up opportunities to young people across key sectors. Our programmes not only support young people by developing their understanding of careers and building confidence and skills, they also help employers to tackle skills shortages by strengthening the talent pipeline - a win/win outcome for everyone involved.
We take a design-led approach to all our work and develop tailored programmes and solutions that really work both for our employer partners and the young people that take part. We are a values-led consultancy without shareholders or investors and reinvest all our surpluses in furthering our social impact.
About the job role
As a Programme Manager you will lead the conception, sales, development and delivery of client programmes nationally. Programmes vary in size, complexity and volume of stakeholders involved. Our clients, who are mostly corporate partners, look to us for expertise and the ability to tailor solutions that will work for them. All our programmes take a consultative approach with corporate and education partners and may involve managing delivery of advisory services, creation, design and event delivery through agile processes. Programmes may be multi-year across multiple geographies (nationally and internationally) and require a long-term strategic approach to their development and delivery.
Our tailored programmes are delivered to the highest standards, prioritising client service and impact, whilst ensuring that the programmes are optimally structured, and successfully delivered on time and to budget.
The role will also play a key role in driving continuous improvement through the following key responsibilities.
The key responsibilities of the role will include:
- National Programme leadership
- Programme design, management and delivery
- Client service excellence
- Business Development - growing programmes
- Creative / Design-led thinking
- Leading and managing people (mainly on programmes rather than line management)
- Growing the business
- Data collation and analysis and outcome evaluation
About you
You will be passionate about our mission, getting involved in new and exciting opportunities and using creative thinking to best meet client needs. The following experience and skills are required:
- Ability to think strategically
- Consultancy and advisory
- Growth
- Flexibility and responsiveness
- Highly organised
- Creative problem solver
- Team player
- Self-driven and resilient
- Confident and effective communicator
