Social Enterprise Strategic Programme Lead

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Job Purpose and Role:

• An exciting opportunity to make a huge impact on people’s lives around the West Midlands through creating and delivering social impact programmes. You’ll be part of a team of vibrant and dedicated change makers.
• A focused driven individual able to think strategically, whilst planning, leading, creating, coordinating and personally delivering social impact programmes.
• Working closely with community partners, stakeholders, clients and a small internal team to ensure the successful delivery and sustainability of our initiatives.

Job Overview: initiative for Social Enterprise (iSE) are seeking a passionate and dedicated Strategic Programmes Lead to join our team. Working at an award-winning social enterprise, dedicated to empowering aspirers in social enterprises and profitable businesses with social impact.

In this role, you will be responsible for taking briefs, designing, implementing, and co-managing social impact programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

·Programme Development: Creation, coordination and delivery of social impact programmes, to agreed workplans, budgets, goals, objectives, and timelines.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with community partners, clients, beneficiaries to ensure collaborative and effective programme delivery.
• Leading a Team : Working with a fabulous small team committed to making change.
• Compliance with Service Level Agreements : Ensuring programmes are created in line with agreed funder requirements.
• Implementation: Coordinate and oversee the execution of existing programmes, ensuring they are delivered on time and within scope.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Establish metrics and conduct regular assessments to measure the impact and effectiveness of programmes, making data-driven adjustments as needed.
• Reporting: Prepare reports and presentations on programme outcomes, challenges, and success stories for internal and external audiences.
• Resource Management: Oversee the allocation and utilisation of resources, including volunteers, funds, and materials, to maximise programme impact.
• Merchandise development: Designing and developing products/services to support programmes and generate revenue.
• Excellent Communication: Leading whilst working with marketing colleagues to promote awareness of social impact initiatives through online and offline communication channels.
• Innovation: Continuously seek out best practices and innovative approaches to enhance programme effectiveness and reach.

Key Duties:

• Planning: Developing and maintaining programme plans, timelines, and project schedules.
• Budgeting: Financial planning, maintaining programme budgets and records, and tracking expenses.
• Organising: Organising programme activities and agendas, and booking and managing events.
• Supporting participants: Providing guidance, learning materials, and support to participants, and tracking their engagement.
• Improving processes: Working with colleagues to document and improve processes, whilst identifying best practices.
• Liaising: Liaising with other teams and senior staff to complete projects.
• Problem-solving: Using problem-solving skills to find solutions for me issues.
• Prioritisation: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritise multiple tasks.
• Drive: Demonstrate motivation towards achieving successful results programme.
• Problem solver: Ability to identify, analyse and solve problems for you and our clients.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of 2 years’ experience in creating and delivering social impact programmes, coordination, project management, preferably within the not-for-profit, or profit-for-purpose sectors.
• Skills: Strong project management skills, embracer of ChatGPT, MS Sharepoint, excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, and a proven track record of successful stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge: Understanding of social impact principles, community development, monitoring and evaluation methodologies.
• Personal Attributes: Passionate about change, proactive, detail-oriented, and able to work both independently and as part of a team. You are a proven ‘Do-er!’

What we expect of the post holder:

• To work as part of the iSE Team to achieve our social purpose goals.
• Adhere to iSE’s principles and values.
• Bring to iSE attention issues of concern that could affect its ability to achieve its objectives, including its support of you in your own role.
• To maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities and encourage and support staff in their development and training.
• iSE is a small dynamic organisation. As such job descriptions may change over time. It is anticipated that staff will be supported in coping with changing job descriptions where appropriate through, for example, the provision of suitable training.

initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (iSE) has helped 10,000\’s of social entrepreneurs and business startups impact the world around us for nearly a quarter of a century. The programmes we deliver help shape the world into a better place for everyone.

Job descriptions may change over time. It is anticipated that staff will be supported in coping with changing job descriptions where appropriate through, for example, the provision of suitable training.

This job description may be reviewed and updated when necessary, in consultation with the post-holder.

·Job Type: Contract

·Hours of work:22.5 to 30 hours per week

·Company pension (optional): Employer 3% Employee 4%

·Reference ID: iSE-SPL-2

·Contact:

Responsible to: CEO

Location: iSE,Women’s Enterprise and Community Hub, 249a Ladypool Road, Birmingham, B12 8LF

To apply:

Send in a Cover letter with why creating social impact is so important to you & your latest CV.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

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  Contract

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  Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

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  Non-profit Organizations

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