Community Programmes Coordinator Youth & Community - Calderdale

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Community Programmes Coordinator to join our Youth & Community team in Calderdale
. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and develop impactful community and youth programmes that make a genuine difference to local people. You'll provide leadership and support to a dedicated front-line team, build strong partnerships with stakeholders and community organisations, and ensure projects deliver meaningful outcomes for young people, residents and communities across Calderdale.

You will be responsible for leading project delivery, managing performance and budgets, identifying funding opportunities, and driving continuous improvement across services. You'll play a key role in developing new opportunities, strengthening community partnerships, and ensuring our programmes remain responsive to local needs.

This is a varied and rewarding role that combines people leadership, community engagement, project management and service development, making it ideal for someone who is passionate about creating positive change and helping communities thrive.

Newground Together is a registered Charity and a part of the Together Housing Group, a social landlord with over 38,000 properties across the north of England. Newground Together aims to empower people to create sustainable communities that are connected, resilient, healthy, and prosperous. Newground Together is committed to supporting people into jobs and training opportunities, connecting with young people and families, creating memorable outdoor experiences and providing health and wellbeing activities.

As an organisation we are committed to having a Diverse and Inclusive workforce. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates with any of the nine protected characteristics. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Further information can be found at this link
- Equality and diversity
- Together Housing Group

• Lead, motivate and support a team delivering youth and community programmes across Calderdale.
• Ensure projects achieve agreed outcomes, contractual targets and quality standards.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with community groups, partner organisations, funders and stakeholders.
• Manage project performance, monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements.
• Develop and implement improvement plans to enhance service delivery and participant outcomes.
• Manage project and contract budgets, ensuring income and expenditure are effectively monitored and controlled.
• Identify and secure new funding opportunities to support service sustainability and growth.
• Ensure high-quality engagement and support is provided to participants, tenants and community members.
• Promote Newground Together's services and social impact across local communities and partner networks.
• Support staff development through coaching, supervision, training and performance management.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, health and safety, GDPR and organisational policies.
• Oversee the safe operation of community venues and hubs used to deliver services.
• Represent Newground Together professionally and positively at meetings, events and partnership forums.

• Experience of community development, youth work or delivering community-based programmes.
• Experience of leading, motivating and developing staff within a service delivery environment.
• Strong partnership-building skills and experience working with statutory, voluntary and community sector organisations.
• Experience of managing budgets, funding requirements and performance targets.
• Knowledge of…