Area Manager (Pathways for Progression)

• Lead and coordinate delivery across all three project strands, ensuring activities are effectively planned, resourced and delivered against agreed outcomes.
• Manage and support the project team, enabling Youth Leaders and Youth Ambassadors to shape, test and deliver activities safely and effectively.
• Lead employer engagement with local businesses and supporting their involvement in career activities, inclusive recruitment initiatives and opportunities for young people.
• Oversee performance, risk, safeguarding, financial monitoring, data quality and funder reporting, ensuring delivery meets CXK and grant requirements.
• Lead impact monitoring, evaluation and learning, using evidence and feedback to improve delivery and demonstrate the project’s achievements and wider influence.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery across all project strands, ensuring activities are effectively planned, resourced and completed against agreed timescales, budgets and outcomes.
• Manage and support the project team through regular supervision, performance oversight and development, promoting collaborative and consistently high-quality delivery.
• Lead employer engagement, building relationships with local businesses and coordinating their involvement in career mapping, employer encounters and youth-led activities.
• Work with employers and young people to develop and test inclusive recruitment approaches, career resources, training and practical tools that improve access to employment.
• Enable Youth Leaders and Youth Ambassadors to shape project priorities, co-design activities, test approaches and influence local employers and decision-makers.

• Coordinate engagement with schools, colleges, community organisations and strategic partners to support participation, partnership working and wider system influence.
• Monitor project performance, expenditure, risks and delivery against agreed outcomes, implementing timely action to ensure progress meets expectations.
• Oversee accurate data collection, impact measurement and funder reporting, ensuring achievements, learning and participant feedback are clearly evidenced.
• Coordinate monthly learning cycles and the independent evaluation, using findings and feedback to adapt delivery, strengthen quality and share effective practice.
• Ensure all activity complies with safeguarding, data protection, equality, health and safety, financial controls and CXK’s quality requirements.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties that may be required from time to time. The duties may be changed and/or varied to meet changing circumstances at the discretion of Management.

All appointees will be subject to an enhanced DBS Check.

Recruitment Timeline

Vacancy closing date: Monday 26th October 2026

Application review date: Tuesday 207h October 2026

Interview dates from: 5th & 6th November 2026