Senior Funded Delivery Manager

City, London
AgeUK

Age UK is hiring a Senior Funded Delivery Manager! This role will manage the effective delivery of funded programmes, projects or activities, ensuring that these activities are delivered to a high standard, meeting contractual and legal obligations and having impact for older people. As the Senior Funded Delivery Manager, you will provide a senior and experienced delivery function in relation to funded activity, working closely with Service Development & Improvement colleagues to establish and onboard new activity into the Delivery team, developing business and project plans for delivery, and ensuring both internal and external stakeholders are engaged in planning and delivery. You will also take direct responsibility for the delivery of complex contracts and grants, particularly where these require more engagement with external stakeholders and are of higher value, and provide line management and support to Funded Delivery Manager on less complex delivery.

We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office (EC3N 2LB) – currently at least once a week and may involve travel across the UK. Travel costs to the London office are the responsibility of the postholder and are not covered by the charity.

Please note this role is being offered as a Fixed Term Contract (12 months).

Age UK internal grade: 5L

Last date for applications Monday 12 th January 2026.

Must haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Experience

• Substantial and successful track record of programme and project management, and effective delivery of complex projects. A, I
• Experience of working in a fast paced, complex environment, working collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders and project managing cross divisional input. A, I
• Experience of working and reporting to a diverse range of funders including corporate, health and local authority commissioners, government departments and grant making bodies. A, I
• Experience of working within an outcomes focused organisation and associated reporting structures. I
• Experience of preparing and managing a budget and inputting into organisational financial processes. A, I
• Experience of operational and business planning and supporting strategic planning. A, I
• Experience of managing people, and external consultants and agencies. A
• Experience of a variety of delivery projects, including test and learn projects, scaling up. I
• Experience of developing and implementing communication and engagement strategies as they relate to delivery. I
• Experience of contract management and managing delivery of activity within linked third party organisations. A, I

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of the role of statutory, voluntary and private sectors in relation to service provision for older people. I
• Knowledge of services for older people, with a particular focus on those provided by the Age UK Network. I
• Well developed understanding of the environment affecting statutory, private and voluntary sector organisations which deliver services to older people. A, I
• Keen understanding of the issues faced by older people. I
• Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to prioritise workloads, maintain systems, manage competing demands and work calmly and confidently under pressure. I
• Strong people management skills, including performance management and professional development. A, I
• Proactive, creative and flexible approach to identifying and taking forward new approaches and solutions. I
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to adapt tone and message for different audiences, with the ability to present confidently and effectively. A
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft tools and understanding of CRM systems as they relate to service delivery. I
• Excellent inter-personal, negotiating and influencing skills, with the presence and authority to act as an ambassador for Age UK. I
• Excellent team working skills along with an ability to use own initiative to take action. I
• Strong ability to analyse issues and problems systematically, gather broad and balanced inputs, draw sound conclusions and translate those into timely action. I

Personal attributes

• Commitment to high standards in your own work and others work, with strong attention to detail. I
• Numerate and comfortable in dealing with financial information. I
• Ability to analyse and solve strategic and operational problems. I
• Commitment to user and needs led services. I

Great to haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Experience

• Commitment to user and needs led services. A

Skills and Knowledge

• Project Management Qualification. A
• Working knowledge of public policy as it relates to older people. A

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Wellbeing days – 2 paid days per year (pro rata for our part-time colleagues)
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit scheme, Cycle to Work scheme
• Home & Tech – apply to buy any Home & Tech items from ‘Currys’ & ‘IKEA’, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free. (subject to affordability)
• Blue Light Card scheme
• You Did It Awards – recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

Supporting statements and anonymisation
Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an ‘A’ in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected.

Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.

Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Reasonable adjustments
Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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