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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a strategically minded individual with voluntary/early years experience to join us as our Programme Lead – Sheffield Early Learning Community where you will work with this specific Sheffield based partnership.

Please note this role is based in Sheffield and will require the successful candidate to also reside in Sheffield.

This is a fixed term contract running until December 2024 (21 months).

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

As Programme Lead (Sheffield Early Learning Community), you will be developing plans and strategies to support the families and young people in these communities. This role will involve the opportunity to grow and develop a project in it's early stages with exciting relationship building opportunities in the area.

There is an operational focus, a need to have a strong grasp of governance and also the opportunity to meet with partners out and about in the community. Within this role there is a lot of multi-disciplinary work where you will be able to collaborate with different levels of seniority from different teams and organisations too.

The Sheffield Early Learning Community is part of the Early Learning Communities programme, which began in 2018 in partnership between Save the Children and local partners across the UK. The programme aims to make a sustainable difference to the lives of children growing up in poverty by taking a whole-system and evidence-based approach to improving early learning outcomes.

By bringing together and supporting schools, statutory bodies, local charities, parents and children, and looking at the root causes of issues affecting outcomes, Early Learning Communities seek to enable communities to make a sustainable different to the lives of children growing up in poverty.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee and support the implementation of the workstreams and interventions identified within the Early Learning Community strategy

• Be embedded in the local system, influencing and building the capacity of local partners and the early learning system to think and work in ways which promote cross-agency collaboration, working with parents as partners and address the root causes of challenges facing children growing up in poverty
• Engage, support and build the capacity of the local community, including children, families and community organisations, inspiring people to feel a sense of pride in belonging to the Sheffield Early Learning Community and supporting them to achieve their ambitions
• Provide strong leadership and effective support to those you line and task manage, getting the best from your team and supporting effective collaboration with other teams
• Work with colleagues and partners to ensure delivery of funded work in line with the Early Learning Community opportunity and our commitment to co-design and locally driven solutions

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Proven strategic and operational expertise in working and building partnerships across multiple systems
• A good understanding of public policy, practice and systems issues affecting children in the UK, their families and their early learning, in relation to child poverty
• Experience of designing, managing and delivering complex programmes of work to a very high standard

• Good track record in leading teams; performance and results-focused management
• Knowledge of the local area, including existing relationships with local leaders, partners and stakeholders
• Experience of developing and operationalising complex programmes
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and representational skills in order to work with a wide range of people both internally and externally Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.

• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

Closing date: Wednesday 8th March at midnight

Interviews: Week commencing 20th March

Please note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]