What you’ll do: 

• Manage and operationalise The Love Tank’s Intersections for Health Equity programme, ensuring delivery is aligned with the agreed programme plan, budget, funder requirements and organisational values

• Lead The Love Tank’s involvement in the wider Health Inequities Partnerships programme, contributing to cross-partner learning, shared systems-change activity and collective approaches to tackling health inequalities

• Manage and support the programme team, including the project coordinators and research coordinator, ensuring staff have the clarity, capacity, mentoring and support they need to deliver high-quality work

• Work closely with The Love Tank’s research team on delivering community-led research, systems-mapping activity and other knowledge-generation processes with targeted undeserved communities

• Coordinate and lead “action for change” activity with NHS providers, local authorities, policy actors and community partners, ensuring that programme learning is translated into institutional discussion and practical change

• Establish and maintain programme governance structures, including programme boards, relevant partnerships and stakeholder engagement processes

• Ensure that equity, intersectionality, lived experience and community leadership are embedded across all aspects of programme design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation

• Ensure that all programme activity is delivered within organisational policies, safeguarding standards, data protection requirements, health and safety and funder reporting expectations

• Be part of the organisation’s leadership team and contribute to senior organisational discussions as appropriate

• Deputise for the Deputy Director of Programmes as appropriate

The skills and experience you’ll need: 

• Experience of managing complex 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

• Experience of working in multi-partner programmes or partnerships, including managing relationships, building consensus and contributing to shared approaches across organisations

• Understanding of systems-change theory and practice, including how community-generated evidence can be translated into changes in policy, commissioning, service design, workforce practice or institutional accountability

• Experience of developing, testing or managing pilot interventions, particularly those that respond to barriers in access, trust, representation, leadership or culturally competent care

• Ability to engage confidently with funders, partners, statutory bodies and other stakeholders, contributing constructively and communicating The Love Tank’s work, values and community-led approach in ways that are clear, credible and values-led

• Experience of establishing or supporting advisory groups, governance structures or lived-experience leadership mechanisms that meaningfully influence programme direction

• Ability to manage programme reporting processes, including progress updates, funder reports, monitoring information, outcome learning and evidence synthesis

• Understanding of safeguarding, data protection, ethical practice and inclusive participation, particularly in relation to peer-led, research, outreach or community-based work

• Ability to contribute to senior organisational discussions, bringing insight from programme delivery, partnership working, community leadership and systems-change practice

• 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. 

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