EY Foundation - Programme Manager - Permanent - Bradford

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Introduction to EY Foundation
The EY Foundation is a charity and a company, limited by guarantee, established in 2014. We were founded by EY, the professional services firm, which continues to provide funding and donations to the charity under a multi-annual funding agreement. We are governed by a board of trustees, who are supported by a number of committees and leadership and management teams.

The EY Foundation helps young people, disadvantaged in the labour market, to fulfil their work potential. We are unique in our position as the link between employers and young people, having strong relationships with both.

Our work involves designing, developing and running our own services: Smart Futures, Your Future, Step into Business and employability workshops as well as raising independent funds to support new initiatives and reach more young people across the UK. We work with organisations from across all sectors, including commercial, not-for-profit, education and government.

As an independent charity we have to diversify and raise our own income through traditional fundraising, grants and, increasingly, through the development of our work with corporate partners.

EY Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will need to undertake an Enhanced DBS check via the Disclosure and Barring service, where appropriate.

This role will be based at one of our partner's offices in Bradford, and the EYF home office will be in Manchester or Leeds

Roles
Within the Foundation we adopt flexible roles that reflect the dynamic nature of our charity and enable our people to learn, develop and grow their skills and open up career opportunities. This is part of our investment in you.

This role profile provides an outline of what will be involved in your role rather than an exhaustive list of duties. Both you and this role will naturally evolve.

Our values
In your role you will be expected to demonstrate or develop leadership competences based on the Foundation's four key values. They are:

• Growth mindset - increase our impact on more young people through dedication, innovation and hard work
• Empower people - everyone is given the opportunity to develop and to succeed
• Courage - use new learning and diversity of thought to challenge the status quo, embracing lessons learned even if a project misses its targets
• Collaboration - build relationships - internally and externally - to share ideas, embed an inclusive approach, and achieve bigger outcomes.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
The scale of the challenge to tackle racial inequality is huge but we are passionate in our determination to secure change - both for our organisation and the young people we serve.

With over 80% of the young people we work with from Black, Asian or ethnic minority communities, our team and Board need to reflect the young people we support.

In 2019, we made diversity and inclusion a strategic priority, with a focus on race and in 2020 we published eleven race commitments. This included 50% of our team and leadership team coming from the Black, Asian or ethnic minority communities by 2025. Specifically, it is our objective that 30% of our team and leadership team will come from the Black community. You can find out more here.

Your role in management
Whatever your specific responsibilities and specialisms, your role in management means you will be working strategically in your area of specialism and cognisant of the impact of your work on other teams. You will be leading your team and function, making decisions on delivery of outcomes, planning resource needs and negotiating. You will work under your own autonomy, require little supervision, and will be a proactive supporter in achieving the wider organisational objectives.

Your role as Bradford Programme Manager
As part of our 10-year ambition, the EY Foundation has committed to test, implement and evaluate the impact of a work experience revolution in Bradford, which includes digital interventions. This project will be used as a basis for place-based approaches which we will roll out in further locations. The overall ambition for this strategic aim is that all young people eligible for free school meals participate in high quality mandatory work experience at key points in their education. This will follow a model of delivery tailored to their needs, the opportunities in different locations and sectors of the economy, creating systemic change which benefits all young people.

The Bradford Programme Manager will lead on the development and implementation of this work.

Regional planning and delivery

• Lead on the development and strategy of our place-based work in Bradford focusing specifically on our project to reimagine work experience.
• Ownership of regional KPIs and targets.
• Work closely with local stakeholders (public, private and charity sector, education, young people, etc) to co-design, plan and deliver the project.
• Ensure compliance with the EY Foundation Child Protection policy, undertake training and carry out tasks/responsibilities as a Designated Safeguarding Officer.
• Work closely with the Data and Impact team to enable continuous improvement and maximise impact.

Stakeholder engagement and management

• Build exceptional client relationships with our corporate partners and other employers (EY and others) who are engaged in our work in Bradford.
• Build strong local networks with employers and other organisations to support our work and to grow our local footprint.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with members of the wider EY Foundation team to ensure alignment on our work in Bradford.
• Establish strong relationships with identified schools, colleges and partner organisations.

Other responsibilities

• Represent the EY Foundation at events (internal and external and includes evening/breakfast events)

Your experience and knowledge

• What you will bring to the Foundation is your demonstrable experience and knowledge in the following areas:
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the local context within Bradford
• Experience of successfully engaging and managing senior level stakeholders, ideally across a range of sectors
• Extensive experience of supporting young people from low-income backgrounds
• Experience in running complex projects with diverse stakeholder involvement
• Demonstrable ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
• Excellent facilitation and public speaking skills including the ability to adapt style to the audience (e.g. young people, senior stakeholders etc)
• Experience of working in a delivery-focused organisation
• Demonstrable knowledge of issues and opportunities facing young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in relation to their transition to work
• Delivering strategic and operational plans for your area of specialism and/or broader disciplines
• Accountability for performance against agreed financial targets
• Making business/service area critical decisions that have had a positive impact
• Delivering targeted outcomes
• Delivering excellent customer service, to internal or external customers or service users
• Qualitative improvement across one or more service or delivery areas
• The ability to effectively convey information and ideas is crucial to success in this position
• Strong and evidenced commitment to diversity
• Strong commitment to improve the working lives and prospects of disadvantaged young people in the UK

Your competence
You will be able to demonstrate the competences expected of an EY Foundation Manager. Where you need more time to fully develop those competences we will support you in so doing.