Lead Programme Performance Coordinator in Leeds

£40,531 per annum - Grade 7

Leeds / Hybrid

Full time / Permanent

Closing date – 8 March at 23:55

Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share.

We’re looking for a Lead Programme Performance Coordinator to join our Employment and Skills Data & Performance team. As Lead Programme Performance Coordinator, you will lead a skilled team overseeing financial management, performance reporting, contract compliance and demonstrating the real impact of funding for people across West Yorkshire. This role is focussed on Healthy Working Life - a £37 million partnership between West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. Co-designed with residents and employers, the programme supports people with long-term health conditions into secure, rewarding work and helps economically inactive residents move closer to employment.

In this role, you will take the lead on implementing systems to manage and monitor the Connect to Work offer. We’re seeking a Lead Programme Performance Coordinator with exceptional leadership skills, strong management capability and the confidence to represent the organisation with partners across the region.

Our Offer

• Work your way – From flexible and agile working options, including a generous flexi-time scheme to help you balance your personal life and career.
• Time to recharge – Enjoy 28 days of annual leave (with increases based on length of service), plus all Bank Holidays.
• Free greener travel across West Yorkshire – Cover your commute sustainably with unlimited free bus and rail travel using the MCard (Zones 1–5).
• Secure your future – Benefit from a highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Investing in you – Take advantage of fully funded professional development, regular training, and up to 3 paid volunteering days per year.
• Grow with us – Incremental salary progression for most roles and annual cost of living increases.
• Family first – We offer enhanced parental and bereavement leave, plus other family-friendly policies to support you when it matters most.
• Your wellbeing, our priority – Access 24/7 free confidential counselling services and the Headspace app for you and up to 5 family or friends.
• Modern workspace in a prime location – Work in bright, contemporary offices just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station, fully equipped with the latest tech.

The Role

Reporting into the Data and Performance Lead, your key responsibilities will include:

• Provide day to day management of a team of Programme Performance Coordinators.
• Manage allocated contracts in line with funding guidance and contract requirements.
• Develop and maintain effective contract management tools to monitor overall contract finances, performance, subcontractors, partner delivery and associated risks of multiple high value contracts, ensuring accuracy.

Please review the Role Profile for more information about the responsibilities.

About You

You will have the following key skills, attributes, education, and experience:

• Knowledge and practical experience of contract and project management methodologies, techniques and good practice.
• Relevant and recent experience of developing, implementing, embedding and maintaining contract management processes and procedures.
• Experience of directing team priorities and managing external influences to achieve targets.
• Understanding of the contract management requirements of a range of funding streams.
• Excellent attention to detail and confidence using Microsoft Tools.

To Apply

If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form on our website and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.

Further Information

The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met.

Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis.