Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Contract: Fixed term, 9-month maternity cover contract to May 2024
Reporting to: Senior Programme Manager
Salary: £36,850 per annum
Application deadline: 11.59pm, Sunday 09 July 2023
Interviews: week commencing 17 July 2023
We’re looking for a Programme Manager (Maternity Cover) to lead the management of our pre-employment and traineeship programmes at the Good Growth Hub
About us
A New Direction is an award-winning non-profit organisation working to enhance the capacity and agency of children and young people in London to own their creativity, shape culture, and achieve their creative potential. We’re a small, tight knit organisation who pride ourselves on our open and supportive working culture.
We are the operators of the Good Growth Hub (GGH) - a skills, employment and training hub based at Hackney Bridge on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The GGH brings together people and businesses in east London to offer career opportunities, training, and skills to 18- to 30-year-olds in our community, and fresh new talent to local businesses.
You can read more about what it is like working with us and our recruitment process, on the Work with Us section of our website here.
About the role
The Programme Manager is responsible for managing key pre-employment and traineeship programmes for the Good Growth Hub, including the award-winning STEP programme and the Royal Docks Internship Programme.
We are looking for a confident project manager, who is highly organised, a clear communicator and enjoys working in teams, with demonstrable experience in managing and delivering inclusive and impactful programmes for young people. The ideal candidate will be someone who enjoys the logistics of managing projects, including problem-solving and prioritising work across multiple programmes, and also enjoys building individual relationships with young people and employers.
A New Direction is committed to equal opportunities and values diversity in its workforce.
We’re committed to making reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process. There is space to tell us about any access requirements on the application form and we will always do our best to make any reasonable adjustments. If you need any of the application documents in a different format or need support with your application, please get in touch or call on 0207 608 2132.
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