Programme Manager – Community Wealth Building

The Ubele Initiative

The Programme Manager (Community Wealth Building) sits within and works across Ubele’s Community Wealth Building hub. Community Wealth Building is one of Ubele’s four strategic hubs, with the aim of strengthening our communities through the development of assets and enterprise. The Programme Manager will work directly with the Director for Community Wealth Building and will hold responsibilities across the current and emerging community wealth programme. Responsibilities will include supporting the overall strategic development of the hub and alignment with Ubele’s strategic vision.

The Programme Manager will support the Director of Community Wealth Building to ensure synergy across the programme; managing and supporting project leads and managers within the portfolio, working with regional and national stakeholders, and interfacing with associated funded projects elsewhere within The Ubele Initiative.

The ideal candidate will have a sharp business mind and a proven ability to strategize and implement high-level programme initiatives, with a strong talent for project management and delegation, and be motivated by the desire to nurture programme success from inception to completion.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Programme development and management
• Relationship management and communications
• Business development
• Team and resource management
• Strategy development
• Risk management

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Excellent programme, project, task, and time management skills, with the ability to work to own initiative and manage own workload.
• Confident leading programmes and projects with multiple strands and stakeholders.
• Ability to develop new programmes and adapt existing work based on the strategic objectives of the organisation and wider stakeholders.
• Strong partnership building and management skills.
• Good negotiating, influencing and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills that can be adapted for a variety of audiences.
• Ability to analyse and make objective judgements based upon complex written and financial information.
• Demonstrable ability to plan and manage resources.
• Have worked with Black, racially minoritised or other marginalised communities.
• Significant senior management experience, including risk management, budget oversight, team management, planning and delivery.
• Senior partnership management and relationship building at regional and/or national level.
• Have worked in community wealth, assets and/or enterprise.

TO APPLY

Applicants are asked to submit a CV and a one page supporting statement covering the below points:

• Why you are interested in the role
• How you meet the requirements set out in the person specification

Closing date: Tuesday 27th June

Interviews expected be held w/c 18th July