Location
London (Hybrid role: 3 days per week in the office, SE28 Thamesmead, with community-based work engaging residents, partners and colleagues)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£39,794 per annum

About the Role
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and families? Do you thrive on building partnerships, leading teams, and creating services that truly reflect community needs? Join Peabody’s Thamesmead team focused on Greenwich and Bexley as the Children, Families and Young People Lead. In this role, you will lead and shape a comprehensive programme that responds to local needs and priorities, working closely with residents to co-design services that reflect real experiences. You will build and maintain strong partnerships across public, private and voluntary sectors, and support and develop a high-performing team delivering children, young people and family programmes.

Your typical day might include connecting with your team to review progress across multiple projects and priorities, meeting with local partners to strengthen collaboration and unlock new opportunities, engaging with residents and stakeholders to understand their needs and ideas, reviewing data and insights to ensure programmes deliver real impact, and developing funding bids or reports to support programme growth and sustainability.

This role offers the unique opportunity to combine strategy with real-life impact. You will not only design programmes but also see the difference they make every day. From shaping services with local families to building partnerships that unlock new opportunities, your work will directly improve lives. You will play a key role in bringing together partners, residents and colleagues to create a truly joined-up offer that supports children and families to thrive.

Experience
- Previous experience working in children, youth work or family support environments
- Experience managing teams and complex programmes
- Proven ability to develop partnerships across sectors
- Experience of securing funding and managing externally funded projects is desirable

About you
- Ambitious and driven to improve outcomes for children, families and communities
- Collaborative with the ability to build strong, lasting partnerships
- Empowering and passionate about supporting others to thrive
- Insightful and confident using data and community insight to inform decisions
- Trusted, reliable, accountable and committed to high-quality delivery

Qualifications
- Strong understanding of safeguarding and best practice
- Excellent communication and report writing skills