Job Description
Your main role is to be a senior member of the PIRC team, holding responsibility for overseeing PIRC’s strategic direction and vision, programme delivery, representing the organisation at internal and external events, and working with the Head of Operations to ensure the financial health of the organisation.
Title: Head of Programmes
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid - based at PIRC offices in Machynlleth, as well as your home address, with travel when necessary.
Salary: £42-45,000 (£33-36,000 pro rata). This is the base rate for our socially-just pay policy, which can provide additional salary based on personal need.
Hours: 32 hours over 4 days, usually between Monday to Thursday, with 1:1 toil system (hours or days earned for working beyond your set hours)
Job-sharing: Unfortunately applications for job-sharing this role cannot be considered.
Holiday: 28 days (22.5 days pro rata, including bank holidays)
Additional Leave: We operate a two-week (paid) winter closure period. This is non-contractual leave and it does not count towards your annual leave allowance. Closure period dates are reviewed and confirmed annually.
Benefits: NEST Pension 3% employer contribution, External Mentor, Annual Training & Development Budget, Free eye test & contribution to glasses.
Deadline to apply: 9:00am, 14th July 2025.
Interviews: We’ll carry out remote interviews online, on 22nd and 23rd July 2025.
Preferred start: October 2025, negotiable.
This role requires that you are resident and have the right to work in the UK.
PIRC works to support our movements—for equality, anti-oppression, and climate justice—to tell better stories for a just world:
* We connect diverse groups, in participatory spaces, to share knowledge, develop strategies and strengthen movements;
* We carry out strategic research to support this work;
* And we create and openly share resources and tools for developing better strategy and communications.
For us, this work is not just about communication: our practices must reflect and strengthen the stories we tell, and the values that underpin them. Our approach is strongly rooted in the social sciences, and is led by principles of:
* liberation
* connection
* participation
* creativity
We advocate an approach that can be used by grassroots groups with limited financial resources, who often find themselves excluded by mainstream strategic communications work.
The Role:
Strategic Leadership
* With the Head of Operations, co-lead, as part of a collaborative process with the full staff team, the development and review of the operational strategy and budget
* Plan and facilitate Programme Team Meetings
* Oversee and input into funding applications and reports, including ensuring programme team documents are kept up to date for fundraising
* Working with the fundraiser to identify funding opportunities and attend key funder meetings
* Input into Board development, including regular reports at Board meetings
* Oversee and drive annual, quarterly and monthly planning
* Play an active role in the restructure and its evaluation and review, including development of this role
Team Leadership & People (HR) Management:
* Work closely with delivery staff to set delivery project plans
* Check in regularly with individual Delivery Team members (such as Workshops Lead, Curriculum Lead, Community Lead and Research Lead)
* Support staff to take ownership of and drive forward their areas of work and participate in the overall running of PIRC
* Support staff development
* Liaise with PIRC Board ‘Delivery SubGroup’
Programme Delivery
* Ensuring programme delivery is aligned with PIRC’s strategy and values
* Taking an active role in programme delivery alongside Delivery Team members
Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement
* Liaising with funders, maintaining existing relationships and building new ones
* Building and maintaining relationships across PIRC’s movement ecosystem