Place Partnership Expansion Programme Manager in Huddersfield inHuddersfield PUBLISHED WED 26 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section

Kirklees has recently been successful in securing funding from Sport England to deliver a programme of work to improve levels of physical activity across the district. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our local communities and key organisations from health, local government, and wider [our Place Partnership] to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the people of Kirklees.

This is a key role working across the Kirklees system to develop and lead a programme of work over an initial 18-month period. It is responsible for setting up and leading the ongoing development and delivery of our Place Partnership work.

This funding unlocks the possibility of taking an entirely different approach to addressing physical inactivity. It is essential that we identify the reasons for physical inactivity in the communities we have identified to work with, the root causes and barriers behind this, and identify systemic changes required to support physical activity becoming a natural and enjoyable part of people's lives. Recognising that the existing leisure offer and significant number of established sports clubs across the district may not be the first or natural answer for this demographic.

The role is hosted by the West Yorkshire ICB on behalf of our Place Partnership and our offices are in the centre of Huddersfield. It reports into the Director of Partnership Development for Kirklees.

The role will lead our development work over a period of 18 months. It will actively engage with our communities and be able to work innovatively to work with them on community-led research, development & design to develop and test approaches to increasing physical activity that work for them. The postholder will also need to work with systems, sectors, and partners from various organisations including health and care.

In doing this they will lead the development of service and community interventions to improve levels of physical activity. This may include how statutory bodies build approaches to increasing levels of physical activity into service delivery, working with community organisations to design and deliver new or extended community led programmes to help people to become more active, links with other work across Kirklees such as creative health work and our Well Programmes.

They will also work with system partners to develop, amend, and implement policy changes or procedures to improve levels of physical activity, proposing changes in conjunction with working groups which have wider implications across the Kirklees place. For example, the work will significantly support the development of our Director of Public Healths Report on Moving More.

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The main duties of the role are:

To manage a collaborative, multi-agency approach by developing, implementing, and sustaining a managed network of stakeholders ensuring appropriate and regular liaison and collaboration.

To work with colleagues across several teams and partners providing support and motivation empowering them to achieve the goals of the programme.

Planning a broad range of activities to deliver the overall objectives of the programme, being able to manage complexity of the work, and able to adjust the timelines and plans whilst still achieving the overall objectives.

Establish and maintain programme and project management and reporting systems, including ways to identify and manage risks.

Being able to interpret Sport Englands Guidance and use own initiative and discretion to apply this to Kirklees in establishing our programme of work.

To ensure community involvement and co-production from project to policy level ensuring that interventions are as sustainable as possible.

To ensure effective management of programme resources and finance, in line with Sport England and locally agreed procedures.

Lead the performance management of the delivery of specific initiatives by partners, providers, and subcontractors.

To develop our monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan working with evaluation partners.

Represent Kirklees at external strategic and policy groups as required, presenting regular updates and progress reports to stakeholders including the Kirklees Everybody Active Advisory Group, and Health and Wellbeing Board.