Programme Manager in Manchester

This role will be instrumental in developing our work with separated and age disputed young people. You would be joining a passionate and highly skilled team, all wanting to make a difference to young people’s lives.

Since 2019, GMYN has delivered dedicated support for separated young people across Greater Manchester. Our newly funded Beeing Together project builds on this foundation, combining high-quality opportunities and support for young people with the development of a sustainable model for long‑term impact. Central to this is the Beeing Insight Network, which brings together professionals across Greater Manchester to strengthen collaboration, share learning, and improve support for separated and age‑disputed young people across the region.

We are looking for a Programme Manager to lead our Beeing Together project while also contributing to our wider Care Experienced Young People programme. This is an opportunity to lead a high‑profile piece of work that combines programme leadership, partnership development, project management, and a strong commitment to youth voice. You will manage a dedicated team, lead relationships with partners and stakeholders, and ensure the successful delivery of high‑quality services for separated and age‑disputed young people. Alongside this, you will support the development and delivery of additional projects that strengthen GMYN’s wider offer for care‑experienced young people across Greater Manchester.

This role offers the chance to shape support for separated and age‑disputed young people across Greater Manchester, influence practice across the region, and contribute to the ongoing development of GMYN’s wider offer for care‑experienced young people. If you have experience managing programmes and projects, a strong understanding of the experiences of separated, age‑disputed, and care‑experienced young people, and the ability to turn ideas into impactful services and partnerships, we would love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring the successful delivery, quality, and performance of GMYN’s project for separated and age‑disputed young people.
• Developing and managing projects and services, including GMYN’s wellbeing support offer for young people experiencing age disputes.
• Ensuring GMYN projects are delivered safely, inclusively, and to a high standard, with appropriate safeguarding measures in place.
• Building and sustaining strategic partnerships with delivery organisations, commissioners, local authorities, and regional stakeholders to support programme development, investment, and sustainability.
• Representing GMYN at strategic forums relating to migration, care experience, youth participation, and community integration.
• Ensuring young people play an active role in shaping, evaluating, and influencing programmes through co‑production and youth voice approaches.
• Convening and facilitating partnership and steering group meetings to strengthen collaboration and improve outcomes for young people.
• Line managing staff, supporting their professional development, and promoting a culture of reflective practice, learning, and trauma‑informed delivery.
• Performing safeguarding responsibilities at Designated Safeguarding Officer level and responding appropriately to safeguarding concerns.
• Leading monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting processes, using data and insight to demonstrate impact and inform continuous improvement.
• Reporting on programme performance to senior leaders, trustees, funders, and other stakeholders.
• Carrying out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities that contribute to the organisation’s overall aims and objectives.

Key information:

• Employer: GMYN
• Locations: Hybrid, Greater Manchester
• Role Type: Permanent
• Working Hours: Full‑Time

How to apply:

Your invitation to interview will be based on how you demonstrate that you meet the points in the person specification. We will consider skills and experiences from previous roles and encourage applicants to demonstrate how they can be transferable to this role. In your application, please answer the questions below. Please ensure that your answers are no longer than 200 words. Your answers may be marked down if you exceed the word limit. Alternatively, you can send an audio application if you prefer. If you send audio, please ensure the answers are no longer than 2 minutes. Please send audio files to jobs@gmyn.co.uk While we acknowledge that candidates might use AI to write their applications, we prefer to hear from their authentic selves.

Questions:

• Outline your experience of managing a programme or project and how you ensured it was delivered successfully.
• Tell us about your experience of working with separated, age‑disputed or care‑experienced young people and the key learning you have gained from this work.
• Describe your experience of working in partnership with others to achieve positive outcomes for young people.
• Explain how you have involved young people in shaping, designing, or evaluating projects.
• Share your experience of managing, supervising, or supporting staff and how you have helped individuals or teams perform effectively.

Closing date: 12pm on Wednesday 1st July

Interviews: Interviews take place on Tuesday 7th June and Thursday 9th June

More about this role:

Closing Date: Wednesday 1st July 2026 at 12:00pm

Anticipated Interviews Week Commencing: Monday, July 6, 2026 - 12:00

Anticipated Interview Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2026 - 13:00

Contact Name: Jobs at GMYN

Employee Benefits:

In May 2025 we received membership status for the GM Good Employment Award. This means we have gone through a rigorous process to ensure that we are the best employer we can be in the following areas – secure work, flexible work, pay, engagement & voice, recruitment, people management, health & wellbeing. In essence, we care about staff and strive to support them to be happy and succeed in the workplace. We are at the completion stages of the Bronze Trauma Quality Mark. This means that we are trauma aware and strive to do everything through a trauma lens.

All staff receive the following offer:

• Annual Leave: All staff receive 25 days of annual leave in addition to the public bank holidays, pro rata. This offer rises after three years employment with an extra day each year (capped at 30 days). We also provide additional 'Gift Days' during Christmas when the office is closed.
• Flexible Working: We operate flexible working hours and working from home policies to allow you to fit your personal commitments around your work.
• Remuneration: We are a living wage employer, benchmarking salaries and reviewing annually. We provide development opportunities for staff to experience key themes such as project management, staff supervision and other areas of the organisation to help with role / salary progression.
• Celebration leave: GMYN allows all employees to take a day off from work each year to celebrate their birthday or a religious celebration.
• Wellbeing Days: Staff receive five annual ‘no‑questions‑asked’ days off, taken as needed to reduce stress and support mental wellbeing as part of their holiday allowance.
• Emergency leave: Staff are allowed time off to deal with an emergency or other situations which have an impact on their ability to work. GMYN pay full salary for up to 5 days a year pro rata for staff to deal with an immediate situation that is out of their hands and unplanned.
• Pension: We offer a salary sacrifice 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contributions.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Staff have access to a 24/7 service offering a wide range of support.
• Volunteering/Development hour: GMYN allows all staff members the opportunity to take one hour out of their working week to either volunteer or engage in a development hour.
• Social Value: GMYN takes pride in our social value and environmental impact, continually seeking team‑led ideas to drive improvement.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: GMYN provides the Cycle to Work scheme, supporting staff to buy a bike, with the cost of the equipment repaid by the employee through salary sacrifice.

Working Pattern Details: Flexible working, some office hours and some evening work will be required.

Would You Consider A Job Share For The Role?: Yes