Role Summary & Purpose

The focus of this permanent role is to manage the development and growth of LandAid’s Strategic Programmes, in line with our new strategy and core mission to end youth homelessness.

This is an exciting role with the potential to create significant social impact at a pivotal moment in the growth of our Strategic Programmes work. As a charitable trust LandAid’s core purpose includes distributing grants to create sustainable routes out of homelessness and into sustainable independent living for young people. The Strategic Programmes’ team are responsible for brokering services for our charity partners that broaden our offer above and beyond our core grants in three different areas:

Pro Bono - brokering free professional services and advice from LandAid’s corporate partners in the property industry, in support of the work of our charity partners.

Employability - establishing sustainable routes out of homelessness for young people through facilitating access to Employment, Education, and Training opportunities, through funding projects and establishing best practice and advice for property sector employers.

Property Donation - establishing new accommodation for young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, through facilitating access to discounted rents and other in-kind donations of property.

The focus for all three programmes is now on their growth and the maximisation of their social impact. This follows a period of development and refresh for the Pro Bono Programme, and the successful piloting of the newer Employability and Property Donation programmes.

All three programmes have proven to be successful, sustainable and scalable. This role is primarily concerned with maintaining the management of the programmes whilst working alongside the Head of Strategic Programmes to enhance them and expand their reach.

LandAid relies heavily on the voluntary support of our corporate partners from the real estate industry and this role will work closely with these partners to maximise their contribution to our mission to end youth homelessness. Our programmes benefit from incredible support within and across the industry, but we can do more, ask more and achieve more. The role will also require you to work closely with our charity partners to ensure that our programmes deliver against their needs for maximum impact.

Responsibilities

Your principal responsibilities are to:

• Manage and develop our three flagship strategic programmes, brokering appropriate support from our corporate partners to deliver and grow the support available to young people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness.

• Deliver targeted activity in line with our partnerships model to increase engagement with strategic programmes from our corporate partners and support them to engage their staff to contribute.

• Ensure a healthy pipeline of engagement from charity partners across all strategic programmes, through effective promotion, to include direct approaches, professional and social media channels, and presentations, articles and blogs.

• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders to ensure a consistent and holistic approach to delivering against our shared goals and objectives in support of LandAid’s core mission.

• Line-manage and develop the Pro Bono Programme Officer, supporting them to effectively process, broker and track pro bono requests.

• Make recommendations to the Head of Strategic Programmes and the Deputy CEO/Director of Fundraising & Programmes on the future direction, shape and next steps for these programmes.

Project Management

• Work with the Head of Strategic Programmes to develop key milestones and SMART KPIs for the programmes, ensuring they are both ambitious and achievable, aligned with impact targets & LandAid’s overarching strategic aims.

• Oversee and develop processes to ensure streamlined and effective programme administration.

• Ensure accurate records of all activity are kept and systematically monitor and evaluate departmental activities against KPI’s,

• Provide regular updates on progress against KPIs, and on the programmes more generally, working closely and strategically with the Head of Strategic Programmes to provide information internally, and to relevant funders, boards and committees.

• Develop, review and update governance documentation for all three programmes, including resources and guidance for providers and recipients of support as required. To enable all parties to make the best of the opportunities the programmes can offer.

Relationship Management

• Establish effective partnerships and working relationships within the property & charity sectors to deliver, effective solutions for vulnerable young people.    

• Oversee the engagement and management of individuals who volunteer their time and expertise in support of LandAid and our charity partners. 

• Establish direct connections between corporate partners and charity partners - brokering, supporting, evaluating, and monitoring those relationships.

• Deliver excellent stewardship and recognition of those corporate partners and individuals who contribute to LandAid’s strategic programmes.

• Develop and sustain effective strategic relationships with senior and influential stakeholders including senior volunteers, such as members of the LandAid Grants and Impact Committee (LGIC) and those representing programme funders.

• Ensure effective integration and knowledge sharing with other LandAid team members. To enable effective engagement and stewardship of our corporate partners and identify possible areas of collaboration (e.g. engaging our regional boards to promote or support these initiatives).

• Seek and develop opportunities to collaborate, and partner, with other providers of programmes and initiatives in our areas of interest.

• Work collaboratively across sectors to address specific, local issues which prevent young people accessing employment and affordable housing.

Impact & Evaluation

• Work with the Head of Strategic Programmes to develop the impact measurement framework and establish key impact metrics and regular evaluation for the programmes.

• Assist in the comprehensive measurement of LandAid’s social value by capturing, analysing and reporting on the impact of our Strategic Programmes work.

• Work with our charity and corporate stakeholders to ensure that the programmes are aligned with their objectives and meeting expectations.

• Undertake such activity as necessary to assure the processes for assessing and progressing projects across all programmes, to ensure that LandAid’s resources are being deployed to achieve maximum impact

• Liaise closely with charity partners to ensure that lived experience and need are at the centre of our programmes, actively consulting with young people where possible and/or appropriate.

• Ensure that the evidence and information gained from evaluations, feedback and other data sources are incorporated into decision-making about programme changes, as well as future plans and initiatives.

Communications

• Ensure the systematic collection of case stories to support the communications team in the delivery of activity to promote the impact of our strategic programmes and LandAid more widely.

• Be alert to and share any opportunities for communications, PR and External Affairs-based opportunities to promote the strategic programmes and LandAid more widely.

 General

Your general responsibilities are to:

• Be a committed and effective member of the LandAid team

• To take your own professional development seriously and continually look for opportunities to learn and improve what you do, and how you do it

• Adhere to our policies and procedures, and working confidently and enthusiastically within our values

• Carry out any roles and tasks required to support the Head of Strategic Programmes, and the priorities of the charity as requested, including providing holiday cover as required.

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will mainly perform. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be changed in the light of experience and in consultation with the post-holder.