The posting
We're looking for an experienced and motivated Community Programmes Coordinator to join our Youth & Community team in Calderdale. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and develop impactful community and youth programmes that make a genuine difference to local people. You'll provide leadership and support to a dedicated front-line team, build strong partnerships with stakeholders and community organisations, and ensure projects deliver meaningful outcomes for young people, residents and communities across Calderdale.
You will be responsible for leading project delivery, managing performance and budgets, identifying funding opportunities, and driving continuous improvement across services. You'll play a key role in developing new opportunities, strengthening community partnerships, and ensuring our programmes remain responsive to local needs.
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines people leadership, community engagement, project management and service development, making it ideal for someone who is passionate about creating positive change and helping communities thrive.
Newground Together is a registered Charity and a part of the Together Housing Group, a social landlord with over 38,000 properties across the north of England. Newground Together aims to empower people to create sustainable communities that are connected, resilient, healthy, and prosperous. Newground Together is committed to supporting people into jobs and training opportunities, connecting with young people and families, creating memorable outdoor experiences and providing health and wellbeing activities.
Diversity & Inclusion: As an organisation we are committed to having a Diverse and Inclusive workforce. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates with any of the nine protected characteristics. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Further information can be found at this link - Equality and diversity - Together Housing Group
Requirements
Outline of Key Responsibilities in the Community Programmes Coordinator for Youth & Community - Calderdale...
- Lead, motivate and support a team delivering youth and community programmes across Calderdale.
- Ensure projects achieve agreed outcomes, contractual targets and quality standards.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with community groups, partner organisations, funders and stakeholders.
- Manage project performance, monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements.
- Develop and implement improvement plans to enhance service delivery and participant outcomes.
- Manage project and contract budgets, ensuring income and expenditure are effectively monitored and controlled.
- Identify and secure new funding opportunities to support service sustainability and growth.
- Ensure high-quality engagement and support is provided to participants, tenants and community members.
- Promote Newground Together's services and social impact across local communities and partner networks.
- Support staff development through coaching, supervision, training and performance management.
- Ensure compliance with safeguarding, health and safety, GDPR and organisational policies.
- Oversee the safe operation of community venues and hubs used to deliver services.
- Represent Newground Together professionally and positively at meetings, events and partnership forums.
We're Looking for Someone Who Has...
- Experience of community development, youth work or delivering community-based programmes.
- Experience of leading, motivating and developing staff within a service delivery environment.
- Strong partnership-building skills and experience working with statutory, voluntary and community sector organisations.
- Experience of managing budgets, funding requirements and performance targets.
- Knowledge of safeguarding practices relating to young people and vulnerable adults.
- Excellent communication, leadership and organisational skills.
- The ability to monitor performance, analyse information and drive continuous improvement.
- Experience of engaging with local communities and involving participants in service development.
- Confidence using Microsoft Office, databases and CRM systems to manage information and reporting.
- A proactive, solution-focused approach with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A genuine passion for supporting young people, communities and people facing disadvantage.
- A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and delivering person-centred services.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle insured for business use.
- Flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends to meet service needs.
- Enhanced DBS clearance.
Benefits
What we offer:
- Starting salary: £42,195
- Generous holidays: 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days with service) plus bank holidays
- This is a 37-hour per week role, primarily based within the community and at our youth centres across Calderdale. The successful candidate will typically work 9:00am to 5:00pm, with regular evening working on Tuesdays and Thursdays (1:00pm to 9:00pm). Flexibility is also required to support occasional evening, weekend and community events. Hybrid working may be available where service needs allow, although the role is predominantly site and community based.
- Work Location - Based at The Hub at Pellon, Halifax, with delivery taking place across youth and community settings throughout Calderdale.
- Regular evening working is required, typically Tuesdays and Fridays from 1:00pm to 9:00pm, with flexibility to respond to occasional operational, safeguarding or health and safety matters.
- You will oversee the delivery of youth programmes across a range of locations, while maintaining a hands-on approach and supporting front-line delivery when required.
- Services currently include youth clubs in Pellon, Ovenden, Mixenden, Elland and Rastrick, alongside street-based youth work across Calderdale.
- Great benefits: An attractive pension scheme, health and wellbeing benefits, including access to GPs, and a range of financial and lifestyle perks, like cycle-to-work and vehicle leasing schemes.
- To view the full range of our benefits click on the Employee Benefits Link
THG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient numbers of applicants are received. Therefore, please apply without delay!
Please ensure you fully answer the questions on the application form.
Due to the nature of the role involving work with vulnerable members of society, this post is subject to a Enhanced Criminal Disclosure, which will be carried out when a conditional offer is made.
