What you’ll do: 

• Manage all relevant programme staff, ensuring all staff operate within organisational policy, practice and guidelines

• Manage the operationalisation of all relevant programmes, ensuring they are delivered to established standards, within agreed timeframes, and to budget

• Manage direct on-going relationships with funders and commissioners, ensuring that all reporting mechanisms are adhered to and delivered within agreed timeframes

• Manage relationships with programme partners, in ways that demonstrate leadership and that value partnership working 

• Build capacity across the organisation and within partner organisations, in community-mobilisation and community-led outreach theory and practice

• Champion community-based practice within The Love Tank and partner organisations, ensuring it is central to our ethos and work

• Identify and generate emerging partnerships and collaborations that build and nurture the work and ethos of The Love Tank

• Identify and generate income that facilitates the on-going delivery of existing programmes of work 

• Work with the Deputy Director of Programmes to identify future development opportunities

• Through appropriate team members, ensure that inclusive and supportive volunteering opportunities are developed and implemented, providing regular volunteer monitoring reports to the leadership team and Directors

• Be part of the organisation’s leadership team and contribute to Director level activity as appropriate

• Deputise for the Deputy Director of Programmes as appropriate

The skills and experience you’ll need: 

• Experience of managing community-based, multi-stakeholder programmes, ensuring they are delivered to established standards, within agreed timeframes and to budget

• Experience of managing and supporting staff in ways that provide clarity, accountability and care, while enabling autonomy, ownership and professional growth

• Knowledge of and understanding of systems-change approaches to challenging inequalities, and of the theory and practice of community mobilisation and outreach

• Experience of building and maintaining relationships with funders, commissioners, programme partners and other stakeholders, ensuring that communication is clear, timely and values-led

• Experience of managing programme reporting processes, including collecting and presenting monitoring information, progress updates and impact data for funders, commissioners and internal audiences

• Ability to operationalise programme plans into clear systems, delivery structures, staff roles and implementation processes

• Experience of leading partnerships and networks in ways that value collaboration and shared ownership

• Understanding of how to embed organisational policies, safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and good practice standards into day-to-day programme delivery

• Ability to contribute to senior organisational discussions, bringing insight from operational delivery, community practice, staff management and partnership working

• Ability to represent The Love Tank confidently and thoughtfully with stakeholders, communicating our work, values and approach with clarity and good judgement

• Lived experience of the communities reached through The Love Tank’s programmes and an understanding of the value and strength of lived experience approaches

The annual salary for this 1.0 FTE post is £45,000 (pro rata). We pay 3% employer pension contributions, provide monthly staff support grants towards well-being (e.g. therapy), and 33 days of paid leave per year including statutory bank holidays. 

To apply for this post, send a CV (please do NOT include a photograph on your CV) along with a two-page cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills and experience required for this post.

In addition, please outline in no more than 200 words your lived experience of the communities reached by this post. 

Please email the above to hello@thelovetank.info by midday of the closing date - 29 July 2026. Applications received after this time will not be accepted.

If you require more information about this role please email hello@thelovetank.info

Please do NOT contact other staff members for informal discussions about this post. 

Please visit www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/#next to understand the processes The Love Tank follows during recruitment of paid posts.