Project & Partnership Lead

This role sits within the Housing, Neighbourhood & Building Services (HNB) and focuses on identifying needs, developing, and managing projects within the Play, Youth & Community (PYC) Service. You’ll work in collaboration with various agencies to enhance health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and promote independence among children, young people, and their families.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead on health and wellbeing initiatives for staff and service users, ensuring projects are well-defined, effectively managed, and delivered on time.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams, senior managers, and external stakeholders to support programme success.
• Manage a small team, overseeing daily operations and ensuring delivery of service objectives.
• Identify funding opportunities and prepare business cases to expand services and share resources with partners.
• Manage a health development budget to support wellbeing initiatives.
• Plan medium- and long-term projects using national guidance and evidence, adapting them to local needs and service policies.
• Develop and implement community development strategies aligned with public health goals.
• Create and evaluate action plans to embed healthy outcomes across PYC services.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the challenges faced by vulnerable children, young people, and families, including poverty and health inequalities.
• Collaborate with the Tackling Poverty Coordinator to support shared outcomes.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and coordinate service-wide meetings to support programme delivery.
• Represent the service at multi-agency meetings and contribute to wider wellbeing campaigns.
• Deliver workforce development programmes in partnership with the learning and development team, covering safeguarding, mental health, restorative practice, and more.
• Work with the communications team to promote the PYC service across various platforms.
• Support frontline staff in delivering consistent public health messages.


Skills:

You should have:
1. A relevant degree or equivalent experience.
2. Evidence of ongoing professional development and experience in project delivery.
3. Ability to interpret national guidance and apply it locally.
4. Experience in developing and implementing wellbeing initiatives.
5. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
6. Capability to balance strategic and operational responsibilities.
7. Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.
8. Analytical skills to interpret data and inform initiatives.
9. Experience as a trainer/facilitator in health, wellbeing, and safeguarding is desirable but not essential.
10. Ability to demonstrate awareness of public health improvement, behaviour change, and health inequalities.
11. Awareness of issues affecting children, young people, and communities.
12. Commitment to promoting equality and positive working relationships.
13. Ability to manage workload and make decisions under pressure.
14. Experience using social media and digital platforms for promotion.
15. Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
16. Proficiency in IT systems, especially Microsoft Excel and Office 365.