1 year fixed term, with the possibility of further years extension.
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Family Information Service. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Programme Manager to lead our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme. This role is crucial in providing healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their health, wellbeing, and learning.
Since 2022, the HAF programme has provided 10.7 million HAF days to children and young people across the country. The expansion of the programme year-on-year has resulted in a total of 5.4 million HAF days provided between Christmas 2022, Easter, and summer 2023. Following the successful rollout of the HAF programme across England, commencing in 2021, the government announced a further investment of over £200m for the next year 2025/2026. Ealing has been allocated over £1.3M by the Department for Education for 2025/26 to deliver free enriching holiday provision with a hot nutritious meal for school-aged children from Reception to Year 11 who are in receipt of benefits-related free school meals (FSM). The borough has over 10,000 children on FSM who receive benefits-related free school meals.
In this role, you will be responsible for the overall setup, coordination, and delivery of the HAF programme in line with the Department for Education’s directives and expectations, ensuring provision is of high quality, value for money, and meets the needs of the borough’s communities. This will include delivering a comprehensive support package for delivery partners.
What are we looking for? Successful candidates will be self-motivated and decisive, able to lead, challenge, and drive new initiatives forward to maximise results and outcomes for Ealing’s children. Experience of working with recognised project management methodologies and excellent stakeholder management skills are essential.
This role is subject to enhanced vetting check.
You must have the right to work in the UK. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.
It is an exciting time to join us, here at Ealing Council. If you would like to make a positive difference to our residents and borough, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.
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Ealing Council is committed to creating good jobs and delivering on its connected communities’ agenda. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive.
We therefore welcome applications from all residents of the borough, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are entering the employment market in the early stages of their career and mid-career professionals, who are currently underrepresented in Ealing’s workforce.
Please note all applications will be determined on merit.
Ealing Council employees will be offered a secondment, external candidates will be offered a fixed term contract. Ealing employees please ensure the secondment release form is signed by your line manager prior to applying. Please return your completed form to: recruitment@ealing.gov.uk
Contact Information: For more detailed information about the above, please contact Angie Dennison, Strategy Manager for SAFE and Family Information Service, at 020 8825 6383 or dennisona@ealing.gov.uk
