Job Introduction
Fantastic opportunity to join our Play, Youth & Community service as a Project & Partnership Lead!
Fixed Term Contract/Secondment for up to 12 months to cover maternity leave.
Hours: 22.2 per week (working pattern to be agreed).
About the Service:
We are proud of the work we do, guided by our core values and principles. If you share our commitment to valuing others and making a meaningful impact, this role could be the perfect fit for you.
What is the Role?
This role sits within the Housing, Neighbourhood & Building Services (HNB) and focuses on identifying needs, developing, and managing projects within the Play, Youth & Community (PYC) Service. You’ll work in collaboration with various agencies to enhance health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and promote independence among children, young people, and their families. Key responsibilities will be to:
- Lead on health and wellbeing initiatives for staff and service users, ensuring projects are well-defined, effectively managed, and delivered on time.
- Build strong relationships with internal teams, senior managers, and external stakeholders to support programme success.
- Manage a small team, overseeing daily operations and ensuring delivery of service objectives.
- Identify funding opportunities and prepare business cases to expand services and share resources with partners.
- Manage a health development budget to support wellbeing initiatives.
- Plan medium- and long-term projects using national guidance and evidence, adapting them to local needs and service policies.
- Develop and implement community development strategies aligned with public health goals.
- Create and evaluate action plans to embed healthy outcomes across PYC services.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the challenges faced by vulnerable children, young people, and families, including poverty and health inequalities.
- Collaborate with the Tackling Poverty Coordinator to support shared outcomes.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement and coordinate service-wide meetings to support programme delivery.
- Represent the service at multi-agency meetings and contribute to wider wellbeing campaigns.
- Deliver workforce development programmes in partnership with the learning and development team, covering safeguarding, mental health, restorative practice, and more.
- Work with the communications team to promote the PYC service across various platforms.
- Support frontline staff in delivering consistent public health messages.
Who is the Person?
You should have:
- A relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and experience in project delivery.
- Ability to interpret national guidance and apply it locally.
- Experience in developing and implementing wellbeing initiatives.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
- Capability to balance strategic and operational responsibilities.
- Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.
- Analytical skills to interpret data and inform initiatives.
- Experience as a trainer/facilitator in health, wellbeing, and safeguarding is desirable but not essential.
- Ability to demonstrate awareness of public health improvement, behaviour change, and health inequalities.
- Awareness of issues affecting children, young people, and communities.
- Commitment to promoting equality and positive working relationships.
- Ability to manage workload and make decisions under pressure.
- Experience using social media and digital platforms for promotion.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in IT systems, especially Microsoft Excel and Office 365.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. The full job profile is attached at the bottom of this page.
If you are applying as a secondment you must have permission from your line manager - please clearly state in your application that you have this.
Interviews: w/c 1st December 2025.
About Portsmouth City Council
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800
