Programme Manager

About Media Trust

At Media Trust, we believe when everyone has an equal voice, we’ll get to a more equal society. That’s why we connect media organisations with charities and under-represented talent to empower the third sector and advance media representation.

We design and deliver innovative and impactful training for charities so they can communicate more effectively to support their communities and drive social change. We also match charities with media industry volunteers for hands-on support. At the same time, we provide under-represented talent with the skills, access and mentoring to progress their careers in the media and creative sectors.

For more information about Media Trust’s work, see our 2024-25 Impact Report.

About the role

Are you an experienced and knowledgeable programme manager with a passion for supporting charities and under-represented communities to advocate for change?

Media Trust is looking for an experienced programme manager to lead on the delivery of two new communications capacity-building programmes – one focusing on charities tackling health inequalities and another focusing on people affected by the No Recourse to Public Fund (NRPF) immigration rule. Both programmes are aimed at enabling participants to safely and effectively engage with the media and advocate for change. You will be working directly with charities, communities and individual participants on both these programmes. You will also work with external trainers and media industry volunteers to deliver the training and related support.

Each programme will involve recruiting a cohort of storytellers, working with a series of external trainers to deliver workshops around understanding and engaging with the media and facilitating peer support workshops. You may also be required to lead small roundtables or convene meetings with sector partners as required.

Media Trust will be partnering with charities working on health inequalities and supporting migrants to deliver this work, including recruiting storytellers from across our networks and partner organisations as programme participants.

You will be responsible for designing and agreeing the delivery calendar with our funders and other key partners. You will also manage the recruitment for, and delivery of, these programmes. The outline training content has already been agreed – this role will involve working with trainers to ensure content is relevant to the needs of the cohorts and the objectives of each programme. You will also design and facilitate a series of monthly peer support sessions to support participants’ learning on the programmes. You will also manage impact evaluation for the programmes including designing and collecting responses to pre- and post-programme surveys from participants and sharing insights and learning from the programmes to help Media Trust design new work in these areas.

You will also support with other programmes and activity across Media Trust’s Charity Services team as required.

Key responsibilities

Programme Management and Evaluation

• Programme Management: Oversee the launch and delivery of the programmes ensuring all activity runs to schedule and on budget
• Training Coordination: Plan, recruit and deliver training for programme participants and liaise with trainers, ensuring content is well-suited to the needs of the cohorts and the programmes’ objectives
• Participant Engagement and support: Recruit and engage programme participants, encourage participation and retention, support any accessibility needs and ensure the training aligns with participants’ needs and expectations
• Peer support: Deliver and facilitate monthly peer supports across each programme. Run safe and well-structured peer support spaces, which serve to building communities of mutual support and solidify learning from the training
• Safeguarding: Lead on safeguarding across the programmes, ensuring Media Trust’s safeguarding policies are adhered to and the wellbeing and safety of participants is protected
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting: Manage the collection and analysis of programme data and insights, ensuring impact is evidenced with high-quality data and compelling case studies
• Budget Management: Manage the programmes’ budgets, providing accurate and up-to-date financial reporting

Partnerships:

• Cultivate Relationships: Build and maintain meaningful relationships with partner organisations, charities, media industry volunteers and wider sector partners
• Insights for New Programmes: Share latest trends and programme-related insights to help Media Trust secure new funders/partners for additional communications capacity-building programmes for charities

What we are looking for in you

Essential skills:

• At least five years’ experience of programme management or working on social justice projects or campaigns. This might include facilitating workshops, training sessions and events
• Extensive facilitation experience, including facilitating spaces for a wide range of groups, ensuring people are supported to participate, sessions are well structured and held, and spaces feel warm, accessible and tailored to the needs of participants
• Proven skills in managing both in-person and online events, including participant and trainer coordination and logistics management
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills; able to produce engaging and clear content for different audiences and communication channels
• Strong organisational skills, with the capacity to plan, prioritise, and manage multiple workstreams and deadlines effectively
• Experience of effective budget management
• Proactive and takes initiative; can work effectively with minimal supervision
• Commitment to equal opportunities and Media Trust’s values

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience of working with the media, for example as a press officer, or supporting people with a wide range of experiences to safely and effecitvely participate in the media and advocate for change
• Understanding of the media and the barriers people might face when it comes to participating in the media
• Knowledge of one or more of the areas these projects focus on (health inequalities and migration) is a bonus.

The above job description is a guide to the work you may be required to undertake but does not form part of your contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumsta

How to apply

We are using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias and therefore ask that you please apply through CharityJob.

Please include a CV and covering letter (max 2 pages) headed “Programme Manager”, describing how your skills and experience match our requirements.

• Application deadline: 9AM on Monday 18 May 2026
• First-round interviews will be held online 26 and 27 May
• Second-round interviews will be in-person on 2nd June

Media Trust is committed to your journey as a candidate and will provide any necessary support throughout the application process. Please ask if you need any assistance or require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process.

Please note – due to the high volume of CVs and applications we receive, we can’t always get back to everyone, although we will try our best!

Working at Media Trust

Media Trust is an ambitious charity, full of passionate people. We are a small and dynamic team that works collaboratively and supports each other to achieve our vision of a more representative media and equal society where everyone has a voice. We are looking for motivated, agile, and value-driven people to join our team. In return we offer:

• Remote working with a monthly co-working allowance
• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible First employer
• Opportunity to work flexible hours
• Pension contributions
• 2 volunteer days each year
• Opportunity to attend up to two Media Trust Open Courses each year at no cost to you

Flexible working at Media Trust

Media Trust values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen). One of the ways we do this is by actively encouraging staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available, such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility and equipment or other support you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Media Trust values diversity and is an equal opportunities employer.
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