Firstline and Frontline share the vision of transforming the lives of vulnerable children and families through outstanding social work practice. While the Frontline programme recruits and develops outstanding individuals new to social work practice, Firstline is aimed at developing existing first line social work managers. The Firstline Programme Coordinator will play a vital role in supporting the team to ensure smooth coordination of the programme. The successful candidate will be a flexible, committed individual with excellent organisation and interpersonal skills who enjoys variety and working in fast-paced environment.

The Programme Coordinator is an important post that sits within the Firstline team, helping to deliver a high quality leadership development programme for social work managers. The post holder will lead on the event planning of our two day residential which take place approximately every 2-3 months. The post holder will also have responsibility for supporting and coordinating a number of key areas of the programme including recruitment, finance and monitoring and evaluation. They will also provide the team with logistical support including booking travel and tracking processes.

The role requires someone who is highly organised with excellent interpersonal skills who enjoys variety and working in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will need to work across a varied range of activities and adapt quickly to the demands of the programme.

The stakeholders we work with have a range of different backgrounds and experiences and we are committed to having a diverse team who can bring their experiences from work and home into this role. Therefore, we actively encourage those from a working class background, identify as having a disability, hold a religious belief and/or identify as LGBT to apply for this role.