Programme Lead

The Centre for Homelessness Impact is seeking to appoint a Programme Lead to support in delivering a portfolio of interventions, evaluations and research that aims to reduce homelessness and ultimately end homelessness with evidence. The role is a key part of the centre’s Programmes Team, which oversee and manage organisations including local authorities; charities; and evaluators, to ensure that work commissioned by the Centre is conducted to a high standard.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN DO

Grant management

• Lead the day-to-day management of funded grant programmes (both the delivery of a programme by an external organisation(s) and its independent evaluation) including working closely with grantees to monitor performance against milestones, identifying risks and ensuring these are mitigated or escalated appropriately.
• Plan and lead regular project update meetings with grantees. Review interim and final reports produced by delivery partners and evaluators, coordinating quality assurance and peer review processes.
• Manage project-specific budgets, including checking financial reports and ensuring that projects are delivered on budget and/or budgets are realigned as required.
• Coordinate internal project teams on project management including planning, stakeholder management, monitoring, and reporting.
• Work closely with our Data and Evidence team to ensure that projects make use of rigorous and appropriate methods.

Commissioning

• Set up and administer grant funding calls for both delivery partners (charities, local authorities, and others involved in administering interventions), and evaluation partners (research organisations including consultancies and universities).
• Coordinate the rigorous assessment and review of applications, including coordinating internal teams to assess applications and providing secretariat for CHI’s grants and evaluation committee.
• Ensure that decision-makers have all the information required to be able to make quality decisions about which projects to fund, and which evaluators to appoint, and that there is sufficient documentation in place to provide an audit trail for all decisions.
• Commission peer review of research outputs produced by partners and manage feedback and revision by evaluators.

Communication and dissemination

• Collaborate closely with communication colleagues to support the successful publication of evaluation and research reports, leading on engagement with grantees in relation to publication, as well as other activities to ensure findings are implemented in practice.

Please apply on our dedicated site.