Head of Delivery - Cumbria
Brathay Trust
Location: Ambleside, Cumbria
Salary: £50-60k
Closes: 14/2/25
Head of Delivery at Brathay Trust
Could you lead extraordinary learning and development experiences for a pioneering charity, at the forefront of the outdoor education movement?
As Brathay Trust’s new Head of Delivery, you’ll lead a talented and passionate team working to develop and deliver high-quality, experiential learning programmes onsite at their breathtaking Ambleside home, right on Lake Windermere in the heart of the Lake District.
Salary: £50-60k
Location: Onsite at Ambleside, potential for 1-day per week from home
Contract: Permanent, full time 35 hours per week
Benefits: 30 days annual leave, 5% employer pension contribution
Culture: Committed and supportive, with genuine team spirit
About Brathay Trust
From its beautiful and inspiring Ambleside residential centre and estate, Brathay Trust has been elivering impactful residential programmes for over 75 years, creating positive change for thousands of young people across the UK.
Their vision is still to inspire young people to build brighter futures through transformative residential and learning experiences. Alongside schools and youth groups, Brathay also serves awide range of people, stakeholders and organisations. Everything from businesses linked to apprenticeships to leaders and executive teams, universities and the public sector (local authorities and the NHS).
About the role
We’re looking for someone to build on strong foundations and continue to develop Brathay’s legacy, as the pioneers of outdoor education.
You’ll oversee and continue to evolve their sector-leading £2 million residential delivery on the Ambleside estate, leading a talented and experienced centre management and delivery team(x4 direct line reports at manager level) towards excellence, success and impact.
There are three key components to this role:
• being an active and supportive strategic contributor to the SLT
• leading, enabling and empowering a skilled operations team
• developing new partnership opportunities via relationship management.
About you
To lead with real authenticity and add value in this role, you must have previous experience of learning and development within the outdoor education sector.
As well as significant sector expertise, we’d love to see you showcasing the following skills, experience and behaviours:
• Delivering to targets and outcomes, always clearly demonstrating impact.
• Utilising coaching and mentoring to empower people to achieve.
• Experience working with complex stakeholders and partners, ideally via contracts and commissioning.
• Keen commercial awareness, confident influencing and negotiating.
• Transition seamlessly between strategy and operations, meeting the needs of a dual role.
• ‘Team first’ approach, with examples of showing up as a supportive colleague.
If you feel that 2025 has something special in store for you, then this could be it. Please get in touch with a copy of your profile or CV to Amelia Lee at Charity People: Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7939 7439
Deadline: 12pm on 14th February
Interview dates to be confirmed soon.