Programme Performance Coordinator
£33,416 per annum - Grade 5
Leeds / Hybrid Full time / Permanent
Closing date – 8 March at 23:55
Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share.
We’re looking for an outstanding Programme Performance Coordinator to join our highly skilled Employment and Skills Data & Performance team. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating financial processes, managing internal and external performance metrics, overseeing contract reporting, and evidencing the real impact our funding has on the lives of West Yorkshire residents.
This role is focussed on Healthy Working Life - a £37 million partnership between West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. Co-designed with residents and employers, the programme supports people with long-term health conditions into secure, rewarding work and helps economically inactive residents move closer to employment.
As Programme Performance Coordinator, you will take a lead in developing and implementing systems to coordinate and monitor the Connect to Work offer within the Healthy Working Life programme.
Our Offer
· Work your way – From flexible and agile working options, including a generous flexi-time scheme to help you balance your personal life and career.
· Time to recharge – Enjoy 28 days of annual leave (with increases based on length of service), plus all Bank Holidays.
· Free greener travel across West Yorkshire – Cover your commute sustainably with unlimited free bus and rail travel using the MCard (Zones 1–5).
· Secure your future – Benefit from a highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
· Investing in you – Take advantage of fully funded professional development, regular training, and up to 3 paid volunteering days per year.
· Grow with us – Incremental salary progression for most roles and annual cost of living increases.
· Family first – We offer enhanced parental and bereavement leave, plus other family-friendly policies to support you when it matters most.
· Your wellbeing, our priority – Access 24/7 free confidential counselling services and the Headspace app for you and up to 5 family or friends.
· Modern workspace in a prime location – Work in bright, contemporary offices just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station, fully equipped with the latest tech.
The Role
Reporting into the Lead Programme Performance Coordinator, your key responsibilities will include:
· Support the Lead Programme Performance Coordinator to manage a range of contracts.
· Develop and maintain effective contract management tools to monitor overall contract finances, performance, subcontractors, partner delivery and associated risks of multiple high value contracts timely.
· Ensure the accuracy of reports, contract evidence and funding claims.
Please review the Role Profile for more information about the responsibilities.
About You
You will have the following key skills, attributes, education, and experience:
· Knowledge and practical experience of contract and project management methodologies, techniques and good practice.
· Relevant and recent experience of developing, implementing, embedding and maintaining contract management processes and procedures.
· Understanding of the contract management requirements of a range of funding streams.
· Excellent attention to detail and confidence using Microsoft Tools.
To Apply
If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form on our website and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.
Interviews are planned for week commencing 16th March 2026. This will consist of a task-based assessment and interview, based on the role profile.
Further Information
The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas,
perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met.
Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis