Programme & Learning Coordinator
Part Time 26 hours per week
Salary - £30,212 - £32,662 per annum, pro rata
Fixed Term Contract to 31st March 2027
Changing Futures is a programme that is dedicated to listening to, involving, and empowering people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage. We design and deliver services with people, not for them, ensuring their voices shape meaningful and lasting change.
The Programme & Learning Coordinator plays a pivotal role in developing and delivering the CoProduction output.
This role combines programme coordination, learning facilitation, and being a front-facing champion of our activities, requiring someone who is confident engaging with a wide range of stakeholders across Sheffield including professionals, partners, and people with lived experience.
The postholder will be part of a team designing, promoting and delivering engaging learning and development opportunities focused on communication, self-development, employability, co-production principles and peer mentoring, ensuring these are accessible, empowering and aligned with South Yorkshire Housing Association s commitment to impact, inclusion and integrity.
More about the role:
As Programme & Learning Coordinator, you will work across these three key areas:
Programme Coordination & Delivery
Coordinate and support the delivery of co-production activity within the programme.
Work closely with internal teams, peer mentors, and external partners to ensure activity is well-planned, inclusive and impactful.
Support monitoring, evaluation and learning processes, contributing to reflective practice and continuous improvement.
Ensure delivery aligns with programme objectives, funding requirements and organisational priorities.
Learning, Training & Facilitation
Assist with the design and facilitate high-quality training workshops covering:
Communication and confidence-building
Self-development and personal growth
Employability and progression
Co-production and lived experience leadership
Peer mentoring principles and practice
Create inclusive learning that recognise different learning styles and lived experiences.
Support peer mentors and participants to develop skills, confidence and employability, using a strengths-based approach.
Adapt learning content in response to feedback and emerging needs.
Promotion, Engagement & Stakeholder Relationships
Be a confident ambassador for the programme, promoting opportunities, events and learning activities across Sheffield.
Build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including:
Housing, health, social care and voluntary sector partners
Community organisations
People with lived experience
Represent the programme at meetings, forums and events, clearly articulating the value of co-production and peer-led approaches.
Support communications activities, including contributing to promotional materials, briefings and presentations.
Who you are:
You ll be a positive, empathetic, and motivated individual who s passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless, amplifying lived experience. You ll have experience either personally or professionally of working with people facing multiple disadvantage, and you ll be committed to creating safe and supportive environments where people can thrive.
You ll also bring:
Understanding of multiple disadvantage and trauma-informed practice.
Experience of coordinating programmes or projects, ideally within housing, social care, voluntary or community settings.
Proven ability to engage, promote and build relationships with diverse stakeholders across a city or region.
Confidence in designing and delivering training or group learning sessions.
Strong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to adapt style for different audiences.
A values-led approach with a strong commitment to co-production, inclusion and lived experience leadership.
Ability to work reflectively, proactively and flexibly in a changing environment.
Who we are:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.
Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.
Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Our wider benefits:
Salary Grade 4A £30,212 per annum, pro rata
Working hours 26 hours per week
Generous holiday entitlement 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days, pro rata.
5% pension contribution
Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share. We are more than happy to discuss other flexible working patterns at interview.
Excellent benefits including:
SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts. Plus, advice and resources on health eating, financial wellbeing, exercise and mastering your mental health
Westfield Health (employer paid)
Counselling
Discounted Gym membership
Cycle to work scheme
Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you.
For more information about our range of benefits, please visit the Your Wellbeing and Feeling at Home.
Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.
At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
