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Senior Programme Manager (Birmingham)
This role leads our work across Birmingham at an exciting moment.
We are developing a participatory, community-centred approach to analysing the city’s economy, identifying opportunities for change and coordinating alliances to act on them.
This means bringing together mixed groups, including grassroots changemakers, researchers, funders and other partners, and facilitating processes that help people make sense of complex information together, find common ground and make decisions about collective priorities.
The Senior Programme Manager will develop and deliver initiatives that support a growing movement for economic justice across the city, with a particular focus on building support and engagement amongst grassroots changemakers and communities experiencing economic injustice.
About the role
The Senior Programme Manager (Birmingham) will manage projects and resources, conduct programme development and delivery, oversee outreach and partnerships, changemaker recruitment and contribute to fundraising, ultimately playing a key role in shaping our regional impact.
This position is crucial in coordinating our work across Birmingham and driving meaningful collaboration with local and national stakeholders, in particular working collaboratively with Economic Justice Brum, a long-standing initiative working on local economic systems change.
This is also an exciting time for our place-based work more broadly.
We are developing and deepening our practice across multiple regions, and the appointed candidate will join a growing programme team with real opportunity to shape our approach, contribute to our thinking about what effective place-based economic justice work looks like, and help set the strategic direction for this area of our work.
Key details
Role: Senior Programme Manager (Birmingham)
Salary: £47,195 FTE with progression points available after probation
Location: Based in Birmingham with regular travel to at least one of our other place-based programmes (Wales, Hartlepool, London) and regular in-person team days across the UK every six weeks and other potential required UK travel.
Hours: 0.8 – 1 FTE (30-37.5 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent.
Benefits: 7% pension contribution, 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays (pro rata), personal training and development budget, flexible working, subsidised counselling offer, Union recognition, enhanced sick leave, enhanced parental leave
Application deadline: Sunday 24th May 2026, 23:59pm
Diversity, inclusion and anti-oppression: We are particularly keen to receive applications from members of communities experiencing economic injustice, and people working for change as part of these communities. We also strongly encourage applications from people who are: women and non-binary people, from Black and Asian backgrounds or are other people of colour, or members of other marginalised groups.
How to apply
To apply for this role please submit your CV and a cover letter to careers@peopleseconomyuk.org
with the subject line ‘Senior Programme Manager Application’.
Please confirm in this email whether you are based in or reasonably near to Birmingham, and
whether you are available for the interview dates provided in the attached Recruitment Pack.
Your cover letter should address the following questions and be no longer than one A4 page:
- Why do you want to be part of the People’s Economy team?
- How do your skills and experience meet what is set out in this Job Description?
Please also fill out the diversity monitoring form here. This is not mandatory but helps us ensure we are reaching everyone, and informs whether we should make changes to improve our roles and recruitment practice.
We want to see people at their best and so of course will make any reasonable adjustments relating to long-term conditions or disabilities that you need to help you perform at your best. Please let us know if this applies to completing your written application. We also ask you to let us know when submitting your application if you have any requirements for accessibility-related adjustments if you are selected for an interview.