Job Brief for the role of Programme Officer

Please send CV, covering letter and Equality and Diversity Monitoring form attached to :

Sheena Pentin -

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Power to Change Trust

Power to Change is an independent charitable trust endowed with £150 million from the Big Lottery Fund to support community businesses across England over the next 7-10 years. Power to Change acts as a community businesses champion through the provision of funding and support on a local level. We also aim to play a broader national leadership and advocacy role to enhance the market for community business and increase awareness of its social and economic benefits.

Our organisation

Power to Change was established in response to a growing recognition of the challenges faced by communities in maintaining vibrant local places with access to shops and services, opportunities for employment and skills development, a strong community fabric and a sense of a positive future. While industrial decline has made this a long-term challenge in a number of communities, the scale and reach of the challenge sharpened in the wake of the financial crisis as a result of the closure of high street retailers and local public services, and cuts to much of the support available for the voluntary and community sector.

Our vision and mission

Our overall vision is to achieve ‘better places through community business’, a vision which we will deliver through pursuing our mission which is to ‘back people to build successful local businesses for the benefit of their communities’. Power to Change has been established as a time-limited ten-year Trust, with the aim of significantly accelerating the growth and impact of community business in England, thereby creating a sustainable legacy of robust community businesses will which endure well beyond the Trust’s ten-year timeframe.

Our objectives

  • To grow the community business sector such that there are a greater number of high impact, sustainable community businesses at the end of 10 years
  • To demonstrate that community businesses can transform places through positive economic, social and environment impact
  • To influence government, business, consumers and other funders that community business is a powerful force for change such that they increase their investment in community business.

Our Values

  • we encourage and support community businesses to take power and responsibility to achieve lasting change
  • we collaborate to bring talented people and organisations from different backgrounds to deliver the best outcomes for community businesses
  • we are a catalyst for change, building on the best ideas, leveraging new resources and championing new approaches –
  • we focus our activities where they can have the greatest impact and bring greatest benefit to communities who are most marginalised.
  • we learn from strong research underpinned by a deep appreciation of what is important to community businesses -we are transparent and open about our decision-making, sharing what we learn

Our colleagues are expected to:
  • Positively support equality and diversity both within Power to Change and externally
  • Help maintain a safe working environment and take responsibility for own and colleagues' Health and Safety
  • Undertake such other duties to support the team as maybe requested

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all candidates irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.
Job Description
Role Title / Programmes Officer
Location / Sheffield
Reports to / Programmes Manager
Direct Report / None
Stakeholders /
  • Delivery partners, consultants and organisations working with Power to Change
  • Community businesses at all stages
  • The Power to Change executive grants committee
  • The Power to Change Research Institute, appointed evaluators and researchers

Role Purpose / To contribute to the delivery, review and improvement of Power to Change’s funding and support programmes. You will be working as part of an energetic team on a range of programmes enabling community businesses to grow and thrive.
This includes:
-Project and quality-management support.
-Working with programme managers on continuous improvement of programmes
-Supporting learning from funded work to inform future activity.
-Ensuring information and reporting on programmes is accurate and shared across the wider organisation
-Relationship-management of a small portfolio of high-risk or high-impact community businesses
-Supporting the wider work of the Programmes Team (including short-term projects), and to the wider organisational priorities.
Responsibilities / -Working with delivery partners and programme managers to ensure that programmes achieve their key objectives. This will include ongoing programme delivery and reporting.
-Carrying out specific short-term projects to improve the quality of programmes, drawing on learning from current delivery, evaluation and feedback from applicants and those we fund.
-Supporting and preparing for investment panels and grants committees as required by the specific programmes. Liaising with delivery partners to ensure that committees taking funding decisions have high-quality information in good time.
-Managing and supporting events and key meetings for the organisations we fund and delivery partners, including networking events
-Relationship-managing a small portfolio of high impact and high risk grantees to deepen understanding of community business and learn from the organisations we fund.
-Working with the Communications team to profile the work of the organisations we support and the wider impact of our programmes
-Being an active and supportive member of the programmes team; taking part in support and learning activities.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Desirable: Educated to degree level or equivalent
Key Skills / -Project management, including experience of managing budgets and successfully delivering complex projects;
-Ability to work collaboratively and transparently with team members and external delivery partners;
-Excellent time management and ability to work on multiple projects effectively
-Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
-Excellent written and verbal communications skills
-Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders, including event management
Essential Experience / -Experience of working with community businessesor social or small enterprise.
-Experience of project management, including partnership management
Desired Experience / -Experience of grant management or social investment
-Experience of programme reporting and analysis
Remuneration Package
(to be completed only for roles that are to be advertised) /
  • Salary; £30,000 - £32,000
  • Pension; Employee contribution 4% Company 5%
  • Holidays; 25 days plus 8 Statutory holidays
  • Hours: 9-5pm or as required to fulfil the role
  • 50% off gym membership
  • Season ticket loan
  • Childcare vouchers
  • 6 days vocational training or volunteering in a community business

Author / David Chater
Date / May 2017

Equality Monitoring Form

Power to Change is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality. We encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, race – this includes ethnic or national origins, nationality, religion or belief – this includes non-belief and / or sexual orientation or if you do not wish to complete this form. In order to achieve these aims, and to monitor the effectiveness of our advertising and recruitment strategies, we kindly ask you to complete this Equality Monitoring Form.

The information you enter on this Equality monitoring form will not be used in assessing and or scoring your application or at interview stage, nor will it be seen by any person involved in selection for the post you are applying for. We will not publish or use the information in any way which allows any individual to be identified. This information is kept fully confidential and accessibility is strictly limited in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Thank you for your co-operation.

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