Inspire Address: Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9QX Salary: £27,424 - £33,528 per annum Hours: 37.5 hours per week Contract: Permanent. Required as soon as possible Reference: 0580 Inspire is looking for a proactive and skilled Personal Development Lead to oversee the design, delivery, and continual improvement of programmes that help young people thrive. This hands-on leadership role combines line management, programme coordination, and contractual oversight, ensuring high-quality, well-organised, and responsive provision across the charity. You will lead service self‑assessment and quality assurance processes, support safeguarding standards, and use feedback, youth voice, and impact data to drive improvement. Working closely with colleagues, the role also contributes to demonstrating impact through resources, digital content, case studies, and stakeholder updates. This is a hands-on leadership role combining line management, programme coordination, and contractual oversight. You will ensure the smooth coordination of logistics, countywide events, and resources, maintaining high standards of accessibility, relevance, and delivery across all programmes. The role requires a confident and organised leader who can motivate teams, manage risk, and adapt to changing priorities. In addition, you will lead service self-assessment activity, embedding safeguarding, quality assurance, and improvement processes. By gathering and responding to feedback, youth voice, and impact data, you will help ensure programmes remain effective, innovative, and focused on meaningful outcomes for young people. You will work alongside colleagues to communicate impact, ensuring the creation of resources, website content, case studies, and updates demonstrate outcomes and support funder and stakeholder engagement. You will need: proven ability to provide effective line management, set clear objectives, supervise delivery teams, and support performance and professional development the ability to foster a positive, collaborative, and inclusive team culture, ensuring high-quality practice across programmes a full driving licence and access to a car, due to travel across Suffolk. About us Inspire is a charity dedicated to helping young people discover their purpose and fulfil their potential. In 2024, over 7,000 young people turned to us for support, guidance, and opportunities. Our mission is rooted in the belief that every young person deserves the chance to lead a confident and fulfilling life. That’s why we focus on all aspects of wellbeing—mental, physical, emotional, and social—to equip young people with the tools and guidance they need to succeed. To make that all possible, we have an eclectic mix of brilliant people working to do great things for others. We’re committed to creating a supportive working environment where both our team and the young people we serve can thrive. We hope this pack gives you a better understanding of who we are! We will offer you: Join our fantastic team at Inspire and enjoy a range of benefits to enhance your own well-being, improve your work-life balance and most importantly make a difference to the lives of the young people we work with. Here is what makes us a great place to work: career development: we invest in your future with access to training and opportunities for career advancement within the organisation your birthday off: after a successful probation period you will be awarded an additional day’s leave to celebrate your birthday so you can enjoy your special day without having to worry about work gifted leave: we understand the importance of quality time with loved ones and that is why we gift additional annual leave over the Christmas period to staff, allowing you to fully enjoy the festive break annual leave and pension contributions accrual: we recognise and reward your commitment. The longer you stay, the more annual leave and pension contributions you will accrue because loyalty deserves to be celebrated childcare support: we understand and recognise the importance of family and that’s why we offer your children free places (aged between 5-11 years) at our holiday clubs, making it easier for you to balance your work and family life uniform: we make sure you feel part of the team with a professional, high-quality uniform provided at no cost to you free parking: enjoy the convenience of free car parking at all of our sites. We believe in equality, diversity and inclusion. We are committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. To find out more For further information, please email Jackie Partridge, Head of Services on jackiep@inspirecharityuk.org How to apply To apply, pleases email a covering letter and CV to Jackie Partridge, Head of Services on jackiep@inspirecharityuk.org Closing date: 5 pm, 9 February 2026. Interview date: 19 February 2026.