Programme & Learning Coordinator in Sheffield

This post is open to female applicants only. This is based on a genuine occupational requirement as the role involves supporting women and leading on women-only activities within trauma-informed environments.

We have an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, organised, and values-driven Programme & Learning Coordinator to join our Changing Futures team. Changing Futures is about listening to, involving, and empowering people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage. We want to design and deliver services with people, not for them, ensuring their voices shape meaningful and lasting change.

This role will have a particular focus on our women-specific workstreams, providing leadership and support for female volunteers and participants. You will help create safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed spaces where women can connect, learn, and grow, including women’s groups, peer support sessions, and development activities.

As a Programme & Learning Coordinator, you will lead activities that embed coproduction and learning across the programme, ensuring lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. You will also develop and deliver engaging learning opportunities that promote growth, confidence, and shared understanding across partners and participants.

• Lead activities that put people with lived experience, particularly women, at the centre of the Changing Futures programme.
• Develop and deliver learning and development opportunities for the Coproduction and Peer Support Service, ensuring they are inclusive, trauma-informed, and sensitive to the needs of women.
• Coordinate and facilitate women’s groups and safe spaces, promoting recovery, confidence, and personal growth.
• Support female volunteers to develop skills, build resilience, and engage meaningfully in programme design and delivery.
• Work with partners to gather and use customer insight to influence service design, evaluation, and governance.
• Lead on customer experience data, co-evaluation and digital engagement, ensuring the voices of women with lived experience are heard and acted upon.
• Promote inclusive and strengths-based ways of working across the programme.
• Continue developing your own expertise in coproduction, evaluation, and trauma-informed practice.

You will be a positive, empathetic, and motivated individual who is passionate about empowering women and amplifying lived experience. You will have experience either personally or professionally working with women facing multiple disadvantage, and you will be committed to creating safe and supportive environments where women can thrive.

• Excellent relationship‑building and communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire others.
• The confidence to facilitate groups and deliver learning activities, particularly in women‑only settings.
• Strong organisation and problem‑solving skills.
• A commitment to inclusion, empowerment, and continuous learning.

At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential. Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra‑care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.

In 1972, South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) was formed as part of a wider movement to end homelessness after our founder, John Belcher, watched Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home.