Senior Delivery & Partnership Lead

12 Months Maternity Leave Cover

Job Title: Senior Delivery & Partnerships Lead 

Salary: £43,461.60 per annum

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Location: York/Flexible

About the role

Our highest impact projects rely on experts from specialists from a range of disciplines both inside and outside of JRF working together effectively.

In this role, you will lead on creating environments that enables multidisciplinary project teams to succeed in their goals.

You will apply the most relevant delivery and project management tools and techniques to the work of project teams to deliver strategic projects that are a high priority to the organisation’s mission and lead on sharing this learning within the Core Team and wider.

As a member of our internal resources team, you will provide critical administrative and logistical support to the projects in their portfolio (including proposing ways of working, tools and techniques of delivery management that work best for the project team), such as the organisation and delivery of roundtables and internal workshops, scheduling and taking notes at project meetings, co-ordination of open tender processes or other initiatives crucial to moving a project forward.

You will also line-manage two Delivery & Partnership Leads, maintaining an overview of workloads to inform the Head of Core Team on resource planning and management.

About you

The role is ideal for someone with strong project and/or delivery management skills who is passionate about JRF’s mission and committed to contributing to social change.

You must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and be a team player who can build strong and effective personal relationships across JRF as well as externally.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Demonstrable working knowledge of various delivery and project management tools and techniques.


• Good understanding of poverty-related issues and JRF’s strategy


• Extensive experience of delivering complex projects simultaneously including clear understanding of financial processes and budget tracking.


• Demonstrable experience of leading on managing relationships and negotiations about resource allocation including excellent influencing and persuasive and diplomacy skills.


• Experience of proactively spotting emerging issues and working autonomously to manage them effectively with the ability to problem-solve


• Track record of being an excellent team player and actively leading and contributing to team objectives.


• Experience of building and managing ad hoc project teams to work effectively.


• Oversight of multiple workstreams for teams across the organisation and leading on ways of working across these.


• Significant experience in managing multiple stakeholders ensuring appropriate communication and engagement.

How to apply

If you share our passion and this role sounds like you, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 hours on Sunday 10th November.

Interviews will take place in York on 21st November 2024.

Additional Information

In support of our approach to flexible working we are happy to receive applications from those seeking full time employment, as well as those who may want to share the role on a part time basis. When making your application, please state whether you want to be considered for either full or part time work and, if part time, the number of hours per week you would be looking for.

At JRF we’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and hope others will do the same. So for those roles which allow it, we’re developing a more blended approach to how and where you work. Which means you can expect to work flexibly between the office and home.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At JRF/JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.