Delivery Manager (CAF Training and Development)

The Delivery Manager will oversee the delivery of our Climate Action Fund project over the next five years.Communities Prepared works with volunteers and communities across England to help them build the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. This includes supporting communities to plan for climate-related risks such as flooding, storms, heatwaves, and severe weather.Despite the successes we have had through our programme to date, we are not currently reaching diverse enough audiences and too often there are people missing from the resilience sector. This needs to change. To address this we are now embarking on an exciting new UK-wide partnership programme funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund over the next five years.The programme responds to growing evidence that climate-related emergencies, including extreme heat, flooding, fire, cold and severe weather, disproportionately impact marginalised communities, while those same communities are often excluded from resilience planning and decision-making.The programme brings together Equally Ours, Communities Prepared (part of Groundwork South), and the VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP, part of the British Red Cross) to strengthen climate resilience by ensuring that communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage are at the heart of climate preparedness, response, recovery and policy-making.Through a rights-based and co-produced approach, the programme seeks to shift climate resilience policy and practice away from models that frame communities as “vulnerable”, and towards approaches grounded in agency, participation, equality and shared responsibility.

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

As Delivery Manager, you will oversee the development and delivery of specific resilience focussed training and workshops with marginalised communities, with the understanding that our current offer will need to be adapted in line with feedback from these groups.

Key tasks include:
• Overseeing initial stakeholder mapping exercises and the development of a structured engagement plan to recruit and work with marginalised communities.
• Building a collaborative and trusting relationship with the partner organisations and other stakeholders for this project, ensuring this work meets their expectations and complements areas of the work programme led by others, and that learning is shared to support wider programme development and delivery.
• Designing a process to receive constructive feedback from project participants and build this into co-creation / adaption of resilience focused training and workshop resources.
• Developing and overseeing a programme of training, workshops and a train-the-trainer offer with project participants, ensuring an equal environment is created that allows for adaptation based on learning.
• Working with the core Communities Prepared team to adapt our offer with the long-term goal of the Programme reaching more diverse audiences, especially those seldom heard in this sector
We are looking for someone with:
• Experience in community engagement or community development.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, confident to engage people from a range of different backgrounds.
• Experience working and collaborating with multiple stakeholders or partners.
• Confidence working as part of a team, as well as independently in a remote role.
• An interest in climate change, community resilience and wider community development.
• A willingness to travel across the country.

Find Out More

To learn more about the Communities Prepared programme, visit: www.communitiesprepared.org.uk

For further information and to discuss the role please contact Hannah Baker at hannah.baker@groundwork.org.uk

Groundwork South is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

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Job Description

Interview Details

Closing date for applications: 11.59pm, 26th July 2026 Interview date: Interview panel: 30th July over MS Teams Representatives from Groundwork South, Equally Ours and VCSEP (tbc)

Language	English
Job type	Project/Programme Management
Work location	Home-based (with some travel across the country)
Region	Groundwork South
Working hours	18.75 hours each week
Role type	Part time
Contract type	Fixed Term (Paid) - Fixed term until June 2031
Salary	£30,000-£34,000 per annum FTE
Application closing date	26th July 2026