Are you a visionary leader who thrives on complexity and excels at building powerful partnerships? We are looking for a strategic pioneer to join us on a three-year fixed-term mission as our Head of Programme Delivery for our new initiative - Tech Rescue.
This role offers a chance to lead a high-profile national programme that will serve as a key plank of our new strategy. Funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund, this Good Things Foundation initiative will be a key plank of our new 3 year strategy, combining community action with systemic change.
Why this role matters
As the Head of Programme Delivery, you will bridge the gap between digital inclusion and sustainability. You’ll be at the heart of a movement that turns e-waste into opportunity, ensuring that environmental action directly fuels social equity.
What you’ll bring to the team
- Strategic Influence: You’ll use your networking skills to build sustainable, collaborative ecosystems across the UK, uniting regions in the fight against e-waste.
- Operational Excellence: You’ll lead a large, dynamic matrix team and manage three key external partners, ensuring every moving part of this ambitious machine runs smoothly.
- Movement Building: From orchestrating a national campaign to fostering local grassroots action, you will be the driving force behind a greener, fairer digital future.
If you are ready to spearhead a national movement that brings together environmental action and social justice, we want to hear from you.
Good Things Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (1165209).
Role description
You will provide clear and directional leadership to a team of c. 15 matrix staff who will be working together to deliver the Tech Rescue programme.
You will work collaboratively with community based organisations to co-design the programme, ensuring lived experience of exclusion and community expertise are designed into every aspect of how the programme is delivered.
You will bring together a vision for a national campaign that is rooted in real life and real experience, motivating people to take action, whether that’s individuals with spare devices in the cupboard, passionate champions who want to volunteer, organisations with end-of-life equipment, or policy makers who can influence regional and national change.
You will establish and lead 12 cross sector regional networks, engaging with influential stakeholders who can make change happen at a local and regional level in order to build sustainable long term circular device reuse ecosystems.
You will create a strong governance framework for the programme by establishing and leading a Steering Group which includes people with lived experience of digital exclusion, ensuring the project team remains accountable to digitally excluded individuals and community based organisations.
You will foster a culture of continuous learning within the project team. Working collaboratively with research experts, you will ensure there is an established way of working to regularly review data and insights and use them to steer and adapt the programme as needed, whilst remaining focused on outcomes for people experiencing exclusion.
Important details
- Location: Sheffield (hybrid working is available). Our team is predominantly Sheffield based and you must be able to travel easily and regularly to Sheffield. We have a touch-down office in Sheffield City Centre and meeting regularly in Sheffield as a whole team is key to our culture. We operate hybrid working where all staff can work from home regularly, if they choose.
- Salary: c.£50,000 Full Time Equivalent (FTE), on a pro-rata 4 days per week, 3 year fixed basis (subject to experience and location). The actual pro rata salary is c £40,000, plus excellent benefits
- Contract: 4 days a week, 3 year Fixed Term contract: June 2026- May 2029
- Closing date: 11.55pm Sunday 5th April
Please read our note to candidates on the use of AI in your application.
Please note, we are not currently in a position to offer remote working from abroad or provide sponsorship at this time. We will only be able to consider applications from candidates based in the UK who already have the right to work full time hours.
How to apply
We hope you will consider making an application. If you have questions about the appointment and would find it helpful to have an informal conversation with the Recruiting Manager - Sital Mistry-Lee - Associate Director of Digital Inclusion Delivery at Good Things Foundation, please contact recruitment@goodthingsfoundation.org to arrange a slot.
To apply, please submit to the above email address by 11.55pm on Sunday 5th April:
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Your CV (no more than three sides).
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A supporting statement (no more than two sides) that sets out:
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Tell us why you want to be our Head of Programme Delivery? How will your previous skills and experience directly contribute to the delivery of this programme?
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Explain why social inclusion and circular economy is important to you and how this will enable you to lead a team with passion, authenticity and integrity.
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How have you motivated and managed matrix teams?
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We would also be grateful if you would complete the Equality and Diversity monitoring form on the online application process. This form is for monitoring purposes only and is not treated as part of your application.
Should you require any information relating to this job application in a different format, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our recruitment team on the email address above.
Safeguarding statement and pre-employment checks
Here at Good Things Foundation, we work with vulnerable adults and are fully committed to ensuring their safeguarding and welfare at all times, in line with our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. All of our employees, contractors and volunteers will be expected to comply with the policy and procedures. Upon a conditional offer of appointment being made, all employees will also be required to satisfy our pre-employment screening process, which for this position may include (either immediately or in the future):
- An identity check (photo ID)
- Receipt of two satisfactory references
- Documentary evidence of right to work in the UK
- A finance check
- A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.