Role Purpose

As part of our strategy and strategic partnership work with Sport England, you will be responsible for leading the testing of local leadership programme delivery. This forms part of our ambitions to empower a more diverse range of young people with opportunities to develop essential leadership and life skills, regardless of their background.

You will act as an influential member of the organisation’s Programme Delivery Team focused on delivering the Programmes and Projects Strategy, aimed at supporting growth, reach, and impact of Leadership Skills Foundation programmes among underserved and/or under-represented communities and individuals.

In addition to establishing and managing relationships with external delivery stakeholders at regional and local levels, you will work to embed the learnings from your area of work across the organisation in order to benefit thousands of young people across the UK. The locality and the targeted audience(s) for the testing of the programme will be identified by our research led approach.

An understanding and familiarity with the youth and community education and sport/physical activity landscapes is an important part of the role. This role will require positive, proactive and supportive external relationships with local delivery partners to be created as well as working with other teams and colleagues internally to support organisational objectives and goals.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

1.     Responsibility for co-ordinating, engaging and managing local stakeholders to deliver leadership programmes with identified target audiences, groups and individuals

2.    Develop a shared understanding of the needs and barriers young people in underserved communities face in accessing leadership skill development and volunteering opportunities

3.    Provide support to identified local delivery stakeholders to address and overcome these barriers to engage the target audiences

4.    Identify and co-ordinate work with local delivery partners to create and activate local delivery area plans

5.    With support, develop and oversee the process and distribution of agreed programme delivery funding to local delivery partners

6.    Deliver training, support and orientation to local delivery partners 

7.    Support identified stakeholders to test adapted leadership skill development programmes and learn from the delivery to inform future delivery.

8.    Establish a delivery feedback loop to inform the development of learning resources and programmes to overcome the needs and barriers young people in underserved communities face

9.    Provide opportunities for the research plan, developed by the Programme Delivery Research Team, to be implemented to drive the improvement of strategic, business and operational planning and delivery

10.  Provide connectivity between your work/engagement with delivery centres and the work of the Business and Market Development Teams

11.   Capture and share best practice to support the wider adoption across community and partner networks

12.  Work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders to successfully influence and deliver agreed programme objectives and key results

13. Maintain a working knowledge and up to date awareness of the landscape and audiences the Leadership Skills Foundation works with and aspires to work with

Key Relationships

Internal

• Head of Programme Delivery (line manager)

• Programme Delivery Research Manager

• Programme Delivery Research Executive

• Innovation Officers

• Finance Manager

External

• Local delivery centres and partners

• Strategic partners including organisations such as Sport England.

• Research and insight partners

Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of supporting individuals/teams and organisations to deliver projects and programmes.

• Confidence to act as the lead contact point for the local delivery of a funded programme.

• Familiarity with delivering and carrying out operational workplans and working collaboratively with teams to achieve them

• Effective resource management

• Experience of proactively supporting and managing local and regional stakeholder relations.

• Analytical thinking and evaluation skills

• Strong interpersonal, presenting and communication skills with the confidence and ability to adapt styles to different groups.

Desirable

• A proven track record in leading and delivering purpose-driven programmes.

• Experience of collecting and presenting data and insight.

• Experience of supporting programme innovation, development, and design.

• An understanding of the sport and physical activity landscape in the UK.

• Experience of delivering informal education or skill development programmes.

Personal Qualities

• The ability to engage and inspire others.

• A confident, collaborative individual that wants to lead and make a positive social difference.

• Pro-active with the ability to work on own initiative collaboratively and independently.

• Effective and confident communicator.

• Adaptable to operational requirements with an openness to give and receive constructive feedback as part of a growth mindset.

• A creative, problem solver with a focus on the individuals and groups benefitting from our programmes.

  The ability to travel across the UK is required.