About Dingley's Promise
Dingley's Promise is the UK's largest specialist early years SEND charity, supporting children aged 0–5 with special educational needs and disabilities and their families. We operate twelve specialist centres across England and deliver national training to over 30,000 early years practitioners each year. Our mission is to make sure every child with SEND gets the best possible start in life.
This role sits within a national government-funded programme delivering high-quality online CPD to up to 10,000 early years practitioners across England, in partnership with a consortium of specialist sector organisations.
Role Purpose
Lead the day-to-day delivery of a national early years SEND CPD programme, coordinating across Dingley's Promise teams and a national partner network to ensure the programme launches on time, delivers to quality, and meets all contractual requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Programme delivery
- Own and maintain the programme plan, ensuring all workstreams — content development, LMS build, partner management, marketing, and learner support — progress to time and budget
- Coordinate weekly operational meetings with internal teams and external partners
- Track and report on programme KPIs: registrations, starts, completions, learner confidence data and partner deliverables
- Identify and escalate risks proactively, maintaining a live risk register
- Prepare monthly progress reports for the Head of Training, CEO and the funder as required
Partner management
- Act as the primary operational contact for all partner organisations
- Manage partner delivery schedules, content sign-off timelines and payment milestones
- Ensure all subcontractor agreements are in place and obligations are being met
- Coordinate partner steering group meetings and distribute papers and actions
Contract management
- Monitor delivery against the contract specification and KPI framework
- Prepare and submit funder reporting returns on schedule
- Liaise with Finance on invoicing, payment processing and budget tracking
- Support the Head of Training in funder relationship management
Quality and compliance
- Ensure all programme activity meets funder requirements and Dingley's Promise quality standards
- Manage the rectification plan process where performance falls below threshold
- Maintain accurate programme documentation for audit and evaluation purposes
Person Specification
Essential
- Knowledge of SEND policy and the early years workforce
- Demonstrable experience managing complex multi-partner programmes or projects to time and budget
- Experience working in or with the education, training or early years sector
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Confident communicator with experience managing relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
- Competent with project management tools and Microsoft Office suite
- Experience preparing concise management reports and board-level updates
- Understanding of contractual obligations and compliance in a public sector or grant context
Desirable
- Experience working on government-funded or grant-funded programmes
- Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, PMP)
- Experience managing digital or e-learning delivery programmes
We are an equal opportunity organisation and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and inclusion and appoint Trustees based on the skills, experience and perspectives they bring to our Board. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment where everyone can thrive.
Ref: DINGLEY1
Pay: £45,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newbury (Berkshire)
