Project Manager, Voices for the Future
Key information:
* Closing date: 10am, Friday 31 October 2025
* Salary: £32,000 per year pro rata (0.7 FTE) / £22,400 per year
* Hours: Part-time, 24.5 hours per week
* Contract: Fixed-term contract to end of March 2027
* Location: Based in South East Wales as a home working role
* Interviews: Online, Monday 10 November 2025
We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Together, we're helping people change their stories. Our innovative Voices for the Future project uses writing workshops, resources and other activities to engage targeted communities in Welsh heritage.
What you’ll be doing
Voices for the Future is an ambitious project that explores ways for diverse communities to find personal and local connections to the rich heritage of the Newport Rising and Chartism in Wales. It is being delivered across Newport, Caerphilly and Torfaen, with a focus on understanding how this heritage can inform and shape our vision for the future.
You will be responsible for the strategic management and delivery of the project, including budget, reporting and partnership agreements, as well as ensuring the project supports and is aligned to our national strategies, networks and initiatives for local areas work. You will also line manage a Project Officer.
You will work from home but will also need to be able to be in all three areas - Newport, Caerphilly and Torfaen - on a regular basis, to support events and local partnerships.
What we’re looking for
You will need to be an excellent project manager, with knowledge of both Chartism in Wales and of South East Wales communities (particularly Newport, Caerphilly and Torfaen). You will also need experience of managing budgets, reporting to funders and working with multiple stakeholders across a wide geographical area.
Due to the nature of the role, you will need a driving licence/access to your own vehicle to support project delivery across these areas. Experience of working with heritage organisations, education or library settings or local authorities in Wales would be an advantage, as would the ability to communicate in Welsh.
Why our work is so vital
Literacy changes everything. 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 they 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.
What we offer you
Our team are passionate about our mission and we have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. We offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.
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.
Application details
Our people are our most important asset, and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase the presentation of these groups among our staff, as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.
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Unfortunately, we are unable to respond individually to applications, so if you have not heard from us by the advertised interview date, this means we have not been able to shortlist your application this time. Please note we do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.
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