Programme Manager

Overview

The Great Big Climate Circus is a four-year Climate Action programme for Gloucestershire, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This role will lead Creative Sustainability’s work in the partnership with World Jungle, Cotswold National Landscapes as part of the Cotswolds Conservation Board (CCB), Bromford Flagship Housing Association and The Ernest Cook Trust. The project aims to create a joyful, inclusive climate and nature action movement across Gloucestershire, by empowering young people and communities through fun, creativity, and grassroots leadership:

• More Empowered Young People through activities for youth leadership development, learning and action, supporting young people to participate fully and in their field of interest.
• More Empowered Communities through creative community place-based events, and supporting the development and delivery of community actions in their places
• More Sustainable Partnerships through sharing learning about creative engagement and youth leadership, networking and presenting to regional and national networks.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities

Planning and Delivery

Working with the partners to timetable events, ensure activities are resourced and deliverable. You will have support from an Activities Lead and members of the wider CS team.

Supporting youth leadership and paid roles

Identifying opportunities for young people across all aspects of the project – creative, practical and governance roles - support young people to come on board and plan their workplans and commitments.

Leading inclusive aspects of partnership development and support

Helping to develop the partnership in areas of coproduction, evaluation, youth voice and participation, running meetings and training opportunities in ways that ensure inclusivity and equitable participation.

Ensuring a youth voice throughout

Advocating for youth voice on governance within the project, to network and promote the project widely, and to produce the Youth Voice and Participation Climate Action Toolkit – a key output of the project.

Evaluation and Reporting
You will lead the partnership on use of inclusive evaluation, working with an external consultant to assess the success of the project. You will prepare narrative reports for the Lottery Climate Action Fund.

Compliance
You will work with the CS team and partners to ensure the project is fully compliant with the law and upholds best practice in Safeguarding, H&S and environmental impact.

Staff Management
You will directly line manage the CS Activities Lead, and work with the wider CS youth team to support young people as needed to ensure their full participation

Budget
You will monitor Creative Sustainability’s delivery budget and work with the funding team to generate additional funding for community action projects identified as the project progresses.

Skills and experience

We need people who
• are comfortable with ambiguity
• understand positive and negative risk
• seek to solve problems
• advocate for and listen to others
• focus on working together

It is essential that you have the skills and experience to
• Manage a complex workload with competing pressures
• Be highly organised and systematic
• Make decisions with others in complex partnership scenarios
• Hold multiple concepts (values, principles, practices and purposes) and ensure they are at the forefront of decision making
• Work independently to prioritise busy and complex responsibilities
• Line manage staff and supporting staff with workplans and their own prioritisation
• Have a passion for youth voice and advocacy
• Manage large budgets with financial record keeping and reporting
• Demonstrable skills communicating with stakeholders at all levels, including participants, partners and funders
• Be confident in speaking publicly to include presentations and press coverage
• Manage receiving, sifting and using a high volume of information
• Communicate effectively in writing
• Have excellent digital skills
• Hold a full UK driving licence and willingness to drive as part of job

It is desirable that you have
• Knowledge and understanding about climate and nature issues
• Experience in managing local projects specific to climate and nature action and mitigation
• Personal interest in climate and nature action
• Experience of H&S and safeguarding compliance
• Experience writing fundraising applications

Please click on Apply Now and complete an online application.