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Programme Manager, Secondments

  • London
  • £38,000
  • 5 days ago
  • New

WIG is a membership charity that is building a community of leaders across public, private and not-for-profit sectors. For over 40 years, WIG has brought together senior decision-makers and thought leaders from business, government and civil society to tackle the challenges that matter most to the UK’s future. This is a small, ambitious and hardworking team that punches well above its weight, delivering cross-sector collaboration at the highest levels. With a lean structure of around 34 colleagues, every person’s contribution is visible and valued. The organisation is in a period of strategic growth, investing in new capabilities, regional expansion and marketing reach to deliver against a five-year strategy running to 2029. The Secondments Programme Manager leads the project management, delivery and strategic development of WIG’s secondment offer, including the Charity Next brokerage programme and a wider portfolio of advertised secondments and bespoke programmatic interventions inwards. Sitting within the Strategy & Programmes directorate and reporting to the Head of Leadership Development, the role is core to WIG’s charitable purpose of porosity between sectors, enabling current and future leaders to share knowledge, build cross-sector skills and improve collaboration for the common good of the UK. This is a delivery, business development and stakeholder management role in equal measure. The post-holder is accountable for revenue performance against the agreed annual income target, for the year-on-year improvement of service, impact and margin, and for maintaining the senior-level relationships across the Civil Service, charity sector and corporate partners that make the programmes credible and commercially viable. The right person is a confident programme manager who is energised by working at the intersection of sectors. They balance commercial discipline with genuine curiosity about how leaders develop, and they are equally comfortable preparing an Advisory Board paper, troubleshooting a secondee placement and pitching a new bespoke programme to a Director-level partner. They bring rigour to financial management and feedback analysis, and they see alumni and case studies as live evidence of what cross-sector collaboration can deliver.

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