Job Description
This is a key role driving the delivery of the Education Programme of a leading mental health charity focused on supporting the systems around children and young people. We are looking for a compassionate, flexible and focused professional with excellent interpersonal skills and experience of managing a complex and substantial portfolio of work, who is eager to work with the CWT team to achieve meaningfully.
The Education Programme Manager’s workload includes supporting a small Education team to deliver specific projects; delivering key organisational projects directly; managing programme level work; liaising with the Education trainers; and supporting Education-related work across the Trust – from fundraising to reporting. We anticipate this role will provide the opportunity for the successful candidate to grow into the staff team's ‘education specialist’, by keeping abreast of key sector developments, while retaining a keen understanding of when further specialist input would be helpful.
The role would suit someone with a driven interest in ensuring our work is as impactful as possible, someone who is a ‘doer’ and a broker of relationships, with strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with a wide range of people including clinicians and those with lived experience.
Key responsibilities and duties
* Work with the Head of Programmes and a wide range of stakeholders, including trainers and clinicians, to lead and support on the planning and delivery of a range of projects, from initiation to close, including establishing and managing risk, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation measures.
* Prepare reports on Education programme’s progress for a variety of stakeholders including the Board of Trustees, the CEO and senior managers, the staff team, funders and other stakeholders.
* Work in collaboration with colleagues with lived experience of mental health difficulties, ensuring their voice is central to our work.
* Ensure that considerations of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are incorporated meaningfully across the Education programme delivery.
* Support and retain oversight of the Clinical Lead’s quality assurance of the Education trainers on an annual basis, or other frequency as agreed.
* Support CWT’s Fundraising team to identify potential funding opportunities within the Education programme, and at times support bid development by developing viable project proposals swiftly.
* Develop and maintain a strategic overview of ‘the Education landscape’ so as to:
* advise the CEO and Head of Programmes of key developments that will help shape the Education programme’s future direction (alongside freelance experts who are further embedded into specific areas within education), and
* to represent the Trust externally and developing our reach, impact and credibility in new areas, so as to help CWT achieve the growth strategy laid out in our Strategic Business Plan (currently 2025-27).
* Work with other teams within the Trust to identify opportunities for cross programme working to develop engagement with our information, training and services.
* Manage a small Education team to deliver effectively and efficiently; while supporting their development, embodying a collaborative and supportive leadership culture in line with the Trust’s values.
* Approve Education programme expenditure as per a delegated budget, including querying unexpected expenditure and highlighting anomalies to the Finance team; and supporting budget development and reforecasting processes by offering a key ‘front line’ perspective on priorities and costs.
* Always ensure compliance to data protection, safeguarding, confidentiality and relevant organisational policies and procedures.
To apply
If you would like an informal discussion with the line manager of this role, Emily Kippax (our Head of Programmes), this can be arranged via our recruitment team at recruitment(at)charliewaller(dot)org.
The deadline for applications is 8.30am, Monday 28th July.
Please submit via your chosen job website or send your CV and a supporting statement to the recruitment email above. We ask that you structure your supporting statement, by providing relevant information under the person specification bullet points (combining these if multiple points are effectively responded to by one experience). This can be in bullet point form. Please try to keep your supporting statement to a maximum of 800 words, excluding headers. We will also consider recorded supporting statements in a similar structure to the above. Applications will not be considered without a supporting statement.
Should you be shortlisted in the first instance, you will hear back from us by 30th July, if not before. Interviews are currently scheduled to take place on Tuesday 5th August and will involve a competency interview along with a short task relevant to the role. Please indicate if you are not available on this date in your supporting statement: we cannot commit to interviewing on another day but would do our best to accommodate.
We will provide details about the recruitment task three days in advance to allow candidates time to prepare. We will also provide at least 50% of the interview questions three days in advance so that all candidates can perform at their best.