Community Projects Lead

Harness your skills and deliver impactful programmes that provides people with new skills and local connections.

As a Community Projects Lead, you’ll bring people together so they can drive positive social change in their community. Your work will empower communities, build local skills, and support meaningful conversations about nature and a changing climate.

About Groundwork Greater Manchester

We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. Find out more about our charities mission here.

Why Work Here?

• Be part of a mission-driven, values-led team making real impact in Greater Manchester.
• Work in a warm, inclusive culture with flexible and hybrid working options.
• Enjoy a strong focus on health and wellbeing, with mental health first-aiders and green spaces to recharge.
• Undertake ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
• Access generous leave (up to 31 days + Bank Holidays) and a supportive environment for growth and development.
• Benefit from a Real Living Wage, pension scheme, and family-friendly policies.
• Use our Employee Assistance Programme and sustainable travel schemes.

Accessibility & Safeguarding at Groundwork

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant, we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

Permanent contract working 36 hours 40 mins per week.

Based at Groundwork offices in Trafford Park or Ashton-under-Lyne and engaging with communities across Greater Manchester.

We aim to support a healthy work-life balance. As such we operate a flexi-time system and part-time and flexible working options are available. We are happy to discuss preferred working arrangements with candidates within the parameters of the role requirements.

Overview of the Post

The Community Projects Lead is a member of the youth and community team, leading the delivery of a wide array of community projects across GM with a particular focus on climate resilience, ensuring quality delivery and sustainability of the work.

Role & Main Purposes of the Post

Delivery

• Lead the delivery of a wide array of community projects across Greater Manchester with a focus on climate resilience, for example:
  • enabling communities to use nature-based solutions to increase their preparedness for extreme weather events
  • Empowering communities to grow food locally and engage in low-carbon cooking to reduce their carbon footprint
    These projects will include:
  • Community engagement and development
  • Community capacity building, including building confidence and skills
  • Community outreach to support Groundwork’s services to reach their target audiences
• Meet deliverables and quality standards and collect impact and outcome data for learning and reporting.

Business & Service Development

• Identify opportunities for growth and make recommendations to managers.
• Manage existing project partnerships, and networks and generate new relationships with partners to support project sustainability.
• Pro-actively seek stakeholder feedback and use internal and external data and learning to make recommendations for improvements to projects and services.
• Support the development of larger income generating opportunities and longer-term financial planning.

Financial & Resource Management

• Plan and manage project budgets and resources.
• Plan and build an income pipeline to support existing activity in the short-medium term.
• Support the preparation of smaller proposals including design, writing and pricing, under guidance.

People Management & Development

• Supervise volunteers or trainees.
• Actively share specialist knowledge and skills with others.
• Support the embedding of GGM’s culture and values within the team.

Internal Management

• Embed GGM policies and procedure within directly managed projects supporting the championing of delivery standards and compliance including:
  • Project management
  • safeguarding
  • health and safety
  • GDPR
  • EDI
• Consider environmental responsibility in project planning and delivery.