Title: Programme Director - Speke and Seacombe
Reports to: Regional Executive Director
Direct Reports:Programme Managers & Senior Programme Manager
Contract type: 12 Months Fixed-Term contract
Hours: 5 days per week (37.5 Hours) Worked between Monday- Friday
Salary: Grade 1B £58,916 - £63,717 FTE salary, (5% employer pension contribution, Medicash and group life assurance, 27 days annual leave per annum for FTE plus bank holidays)
Location: Contractually based from our Liverpool office, with some flexibility to work from home, subject to business requirements and line manager approval. Travel across UK as required.
Role Summary:
We are looking for a Programme Director to strategically oversee and manage the programmes across Speke and Seacombe as part of the ‘Cradle to Career’ portfolio in Liverpool. The successful candidate will continue to effectively lead the established teams and embed delivery and discovery plans across all workstreams.
Key responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for Right to Succeed's place-based work across Speke and Seacombe, ensuring successful programme delivery in Speke while leading the Discovery process in Seacombe.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing team, creating a culture of collaboration, accountability, learning and continuous improvement.
- Build and sustain influential partnerships with local authorities, schools, communities, funders and strategic partners, ensuring shared ownership and long-term commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and families.
- Represent Right to Succeed at local, regional level, building credibility with commissioners, funders and partners.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the policy, funding and public service landscape affecting communities and local authorities, translating this into regional intelligence that informs programme development, supports strategic decision making and strengthens collaboration.
- Work alongside Liverpool City Region Directors to shape a coherent regional approach, sharing learning, solving challenges collectively and building the evidence, insight and stories that strengthen our influence and accelerate impact across the region.
- Produce high-quality reports for our Board and funders/commissioners that support and demonstrate programme impact.
- Contribute as a member of the leadership Team, providing strategic programme insight, regional intelligence to help shape Right to Succeed's strategy, culture, growth and long-term sustainability.
How to Apply
To apply for this position, please and complete the application from our webpage www.righttosucceed.org.uk and email it, along with your CV, to by 9:00am on Monday 13th July 2026.
Staff Management and Leadership
- Provide strong leadership of the programme you are overseeing, setting a clear vision to ensure the team understands their roles/responsibilities
- Ensure there are clear lines of accountability and responsibility across the team, which foster and maintain effective working relationships for the organisation
- Lead by example in terms of your work ethic, your commitment to the delivery of results and to demonstrating the values of the organisation (see below) in all that you do
- Invest in the professional development of your team, ensuring that they are growing in their roles and as members of the Right to Succeed staff team
Ownership of Delivery
- Work with the Senior Executive team to ensure in advance of delivering any programme, the delivery process is designed effectively and delivered maximising insight, impact and opportunities for future learning
- Oversee the Delivery and Discovery phases of both locations to ensure that we are setting the programmes up for success in terms of planning, timescales, partnerships, interventions, future resilient communities, data collection and measurement frameworks
- Ensure that RTS programme materials and training are effectively embedded leading to a consistency of methodology across our programmes and being accountable for programme key areas of activity
- Oversee relationships with organisations, schools/education providers and delivery partners, local authority leads, ensuring that we have the right relationships in place and that these are effectively managed
- Formalise and proactively lead your steering group of influential local stakeholders focused on developing the collective impact conditions
- Provide robust performance management of the programme, ensuring accountability and evidence based learning
Build partnerships
- Develop partnerships with best practice deliverers, influencers, schools, services, communities, local authorities and commissioners in the local area/place, ensuring that they are supported and managed to a high level of quality, reflecting our organisation’s values
- Ensure that memorandum of understanding and contracts with all partners are robust, setting clear expectations about deliverables and the way the partnership is represented publicly
- Ensure that highly efficient processes and procedures are in place for managing all partnerships effectively
- Work to identify partnerships that could open the door to further funding for the charity’s work in this area and
- Embed the vision for resilient communities and build this into the culture and the teams at all times
Programme development and organisational learning
- Support the Regional Director by contributing to Right to Succeed's learning, helping to develop our approach, systems and ways of working.
- Embed a culture of continuous improvement, using evidence, policy and best practice to strengthen programme delivery and outcomes.
- Keep abreast of policy, funding and public service reform, translating developments into practical improvements across programmes.
- Work with Programme Directors and senior leaders to share learning, strengthen collaboration and build consistency across programmes.
- Identify opportunities to replicate and scale successful approaches, ensuring programmes, systems and processes can be adapted for new places
Communication and representation
- Work with the communication and marketing team to build awareness of both the organisation and programmes you are overseeing by developing messaging and materials that communicate a strong vision for the programme
- Act as an ambassador for Right to Succeed, networking widely to build new and existing strategic relationships to the benefit of the programme and organisation more broadly
- Raise the profile of research-informed, locally-led approaches within programmes, by positively amplifying youth and community voice, advocating in relation to impactful work taking place across the places/communities that we serve
Person Specification
Experience and skills (essential)
- Commitment to the aims and ethos of Right to Succeed and a desire to bring about positive change in relation to societal inequity
- Leading complex, place-based programmes or services that improve outcomes for children, young people and families.
- Senior leadership within education, local government, children's services, the voluntary sector or a related field.
- Building and influencing strategic partnerships which could include across local authorities, schools, communities, funders and wider public services.
- Leading and developing high-performing teams through change and demonstrating RTS values
- Influencing senior stakeholders, commissioners, funders and strategic partners.
- Identifying opportunities for programme growth, innovation and investment.
- Financial management and oversight of significant budgets.
- Using quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate impact, inform decision making and communicate outcomes.
- Working alongside communities experiencing disadvantage to co-design sustainable, locally led change.
- Translating policy, funding and public service reform into programme strategy and delivery.
- Excellent communication, influencing and relationship building skills.
- Resilient, adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambitious organisation.
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Timetable
Applications invited by: 9:00am Monday 13th July 2026
1st interview: Friday 17th July 2026 (Online)
2nd interview & Presentation: - Monday 27th July 2026 (In Person Manchester)
These dates may be subject to change.
Pay: £58,916.00-£63,717.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
Application question(s):
- Please can you confirm that you have downloaded and completed the application from our Careers webpage and emailed it, along with your CV, to [email protected] ?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Liverpool (Merseyside)
