The Director of Place, Programmes and Delivery provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of the charity''s programmes and projects, including our Place Expansion work, ensuring they are high-quality, impactful, and aligned with the organisation''s mission and values. The role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into effective delivery, embedding learning and improvement, and ensuring programmes are sustainable, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of funders. You will have a strong understanding of risk management, developing senior relationships with key partner agencies, able to take decisive and proactive actions to ensure smooth execution of programmes. You will be purposeful and collaborative with the ability to manage multiple complex programmes at one time. The current programmes you will be responsible for include: Safeguarding and Welfare, Playzones, and Place Expansion. You will also be responsible for all of our Project work. Being the senior leader responsible for our Place Expansion work will be a substantial part of this role. Place-based working in this sector is still emerging and operates within complex local systems, requiring the ability to navigate, influence and align a wide range of partners, often with different priorities, accountabilities and constraints. You will also be the lead senior officer responsible for Safeguarding. As a member of the senior leadership team, the Director of Programmes, Delivery and Place contri