Head of Effective Delivery

We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Together we're helping people change their stories. This new role will be responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of our place-based programmes in 20 UK locations.What you'll be doing This new role has been created to help us meet the challenges of a rapidly growing team within a rapidly growing organisation. Working closely with our research and evaluation team, you will be responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of our 20 place-based programmes of work in locations around the UK. Our place-based programmes have developed over the past decade - our first local Hub was launched in Middlesbrough in 2013 and our latest, in Salford, was launched this autumn. We have expert and experienced delivery teams in place across all 20 areas. You will bring insights and capacity to take our delivery to the next level, achieving even greater impact in Hubs and collectively across the network. You will review current delivery and identify ways to make it more effective and impactful for our priority communities. You will also have line management responsibility for some members of our Hubs national team, who between them are responsible for 14 of the 20 areas. As a member of our extended leadership team, you will also support the development and delivery of our organisational strategy and contribute to creating a strong organisational culture and work in an integrated way across the organisation. This role is suitable for home and flexible working but you will be contracted to our office in London and will need to be able to travel to London at least three times per year for organisational team days, which will not be covered by our expenses policy. If you are based within easy reach of Hub areas, you may be offered this role as a permanent home worker, which means all travel expenses will be covered. Wherever you are based, you will also need to be able to travel regularly to our Hub areas for events or regular team meetings and strategy days, for which travel expenses will be covered.

You will need to be an excellent project manager with experience of delivering at scale while ensuring quality and impact. Experience of building and managing relationships with key stakeholders is essential, as well as change management at a senior level. You will also need a good understanding of programming inclusive and diverse events for children, young people and adults - including collective impact and principle of behaviour change. Experience of community empowerment and managing community driven projects would be an advantage, as would understanding of place-based working/multi-agency community programmes.

It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It's the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. It's better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it's harder to get where you want to go. The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity helping people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words - reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs and beyond.

• We work collaboratively in local communities, focusing our work in 20 areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
• We support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
• We campaign to make literacy a priority for politicians and decision-makers.
• We support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders' institutions to build their literacy skills
  
  As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.