Job Description

Service:

Business Development Team

Salary:

Starting at 32,311 bottom end FTE per annum, rising to 35,800 top end. Additionally, 480 home-based allowance FTE per annum

Location:

Homebased

Hours

: full-time (37 hours per week).

Contract

: Fixed Term Contract or secondment opportunity until 15 January 2027

Family Action & the Role's Impact:

At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It's what we've done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

The Business Development Team (BDT) provides a specialist support function to enable the organisation to achieve its growth objectives. Immediate team supports services by providing oversight, leadership, and guidance to key stakeholders during implementation processes and drives the social value strategy within the organisation. As a wider BDT, we promote the strategic development of the organisation by supporting the retention of existing work and securing new contracts via Trust and Grants applications and competitive tender.

Main Responsibilities:

The Implementation and Social Value Manager will coordinate teams drawn from across the organisation to successfully implement newly awarded contracts and mergers to high standards and support local teams through to the transition stage. As an Implementation and Social Value Manager, you will work closely with the Head of Implementation and Social Value to implement social value strategy across the organisation and support local projects to evidence their social value commitments.

Main Requirements

(for details check the job description and person specification):

Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience and evidence of a commitment to continuing learning and professional development. Demonstrable evidence of experience of overseeing the setup and exit of projects/services Excellent understanding of project components, dependencies, and risks Understanding of the social value framework in public procurement

Benefits:

- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

Closing Date:

Monday 28th July 2025 at 23:59
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email beata.przebinda@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 15 months

Pay: 32,311.00-35,800.00 per year

Benefits:

Bereavement leave Company pension Cycle to work scheme Flexitime Free flu jabs Free or subsidised travel Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Work from home
Schedule:

Day shift Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote

Application deadline: 28/07/2025
Reference ID: 1150
Expected start date: 04/08/2025