Head of Programmes (London)
Employer: Let Me Know
Location: Working from home, but with regular travel around London so must be based in or near London
Working hours: Part-time (28 hours per week, can be worked flexibly over 4 or 5 days depending on candidate preference)
Salary: £45,000 pro rata (£36,000 for this role)
Closing date: Sunday, March 22, 2026, 11:30pm
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The Head of Programmes is a senior leadership role, responsible for shaping and driving LMK’s education programme strategy in order to expand our reach, leading a high-performing delivery team, and ensuring excellence, consistency and impact across a wide range of delivery settings. As a member of the senior management team, the Head of Programmes contributes to organisational strategy, cross-organisational decision-making and external representation.
Leading a passionate and talented team of employees and freelance youth workers (LMK Leaders), and working closely with the Research and Evaluation Manager, Community Engagement Manager and our Youth Advisory Board, this role is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of our programmes. They work closely with the Fundraising team to identify funding opportunities, and project manage the delivery of secured projects.
As we move into the next phase of our development, the role includes expanding the delivery of high quality education workshops for young people outside London and supporting ongoing conversations to embed learning through the provision of digital resources for young people and the trusted adults around them.
This role is an important ambassadorial role for LMK, bringing gravitas and insight from your experience of designing and delivering programmes for young people across education, youth and community settings to evidence LMK's impact to fellow education professions, youth workers, funders, and the media.
The Head of Programmes acts as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for LMK, collaborating with the CEO (Deputy DSL) and two Designated Safeguarding Officers (DSOs) to ensure our practice is safe.
Key Responsibilities
● To lead, develop and deliver LMKs high quality education programmes for young people and the trusted adults around them, ensuring our programmes are responsive to the changing experiences of young people and the feedback from our programme evaluation
● To provide inspirational and values-led leadership to the programmes team, creating a culture of high support, high challenge, reflection and continuous improvement.
● To recruit, induct, manage and support a talented and diverse team of employees and freelancers (approx 40 people with direct line management of three reports)
● To act as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for LMK, working closely with the Lead Trustee for Safeguarding, the CEO, DSLs and all staff to ensure our safeguarding policies are robust, fit for purpose, and understood by everyone at LMK
● To work closely with the LMK fundraising team to contribute to the development of projects for funding purposes, attend meetings with prospective funders, ensure funded projects are delivered in line with our grant agreements, and share insights from delivery to support the fundraising team with reporting and building funder relationships
● To act as an ambassador and spokesperson for LMK, attending and speaking at relevant conferences to highlight our work, expand our networks and ultimately reach more young people
● To play a key role in shaping LMK’s strategy
● To attend Board of Trustee meetings as required, providing updates and inputting to their conversations
● Working with our Youth Participation Manager, to engage and collaborate with our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to ensure there is a strong element of young people’s voices in all our programme content
● Working with our Marketing and Communication Team, support our communications strategy by ensuring the Programme Delivery team provides regular quotes, case studies and updates for use in our external communications
● Work collaboratively with the Research and Evaluation team to ensure that Leaders are trained in data capture processes and are accurately carrying out monitoring activities. Support the development, testing and delivery of new research and evaluation resources.
Overall
● Comply with LMK policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, health & safety, confidentiality, complaints and data protection
● Work in a way that celebrates diversity, upholds LMK values and respects everyone that LMK interacts with
● Have flexibility in your availability - whilst LMK’s core hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, some of the work happens in evenings and weekends. You will need to be able to schedule your time to ensure you are available for key meetings, whether they are during the day, evenings or at weekends.
Person specification
● Strong understanding of RSHE / relationship education and proven experience of integrating RHSE requirements in youth, community or social impact programmes.
● Demonstrated success in designing and delivering impactful, large-scale, youth-focused education programmes (face-to-face and online) in one or more of the following settings: education, youth services, community or voluntary sector, or local authority.
● Significant senior leadership experience, with responsibility for strategy, people, quality and performance across a programme or service.
● Strong people management skills, with a track record of effectively leading and supporting teams.
● Experience as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), with a thorough understanding of safeguarding responsibilities and good practice, and a commitment to continuing professional development in this area.
● Excellent communication skills, with experience of public speaking at conferences and events.
● Excellent digital and IT skills, with proficiency across core Microsoft Office and Google Workspace applications; experience of using CRM systems is desirable.
Safeguarding
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
In return for your dedication, we will offer you
✔ The opportunity to help prevent relationship abuse and domestic violence in young people
✔ A diverse, bold and collaborative culture
✔ A commitment to supporting continuous professional development
✔ Working from home
✔ A genuinely flexible working environment based on a 35 hour work-week for full time staff
✔ Pension of 6%
✔ 32 Days of annual leave, (including bank holidays) – pro-rated for this role
✔ Employee Assistance Programme
✔ Cycle to work scheme
✔ Wellbeing days
We’re a bold, collaborative, and receptive team who live the 10 signs of healthy relationships we teach. You’ll join a culture that values honesty, fun, kindness, and trust as much as impact
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