Me Time Programme Coordinator

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Mencap seeks a Me Time Programme Coordinator to lead a team delivering inclusive community-based opportunities in Nottingham. You will design, monitor, and review local Me Time activities, partnering with local organisations to expand networks and pathways for adults with learning disabilities.

You will oversee planning, risk management, safeguarding, and reporting, ensuring high-quality, person-centered services that empower people to participate meaningfully in their local communities.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in community programmes.
• Budgeting and funds seeking skills.
• Contract or programme performance management experience.
• Quality assurance and safeguarding awareness.
• Community partnership building and stakeholder engagement.
• Feedback collection and impact monitoring.
• Staff and volunteer recruitment experience.
• Experience managing community spaces and properties.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering Me Time support in Nottingham.
• Plan and implement new community initiatives.
• Map local assets and build partnerships with community networks.
• Ensure stakeholder voices inform delivery and safeguarding practices.
• Monitor contracts, deliver quarterly reporting, and manage budgets.
• Support progression opportunities for participants and volunteers.

Skills

Leadership

Resource management

Programme performance

Budget management

Quality assurance

Partnership development

Impact monitoring

Property & space management

Recruitment of staff & volunteers

Job description

Are you a passionate, enthusiastic, and self-motivated leader? If you have experience of building positive community relationships, then please keep reading....

We are recruiting for a Me Time Programme Coordinator, t his position is a permanent contract for 37.5 hours per week, covering the Nottingham area.

Me Time is Mencap’s social inclusion, leisure, and community-led programme, supporting adults with a learning disability to live life to the full, with high quality community inclusive support, grounded in Mencap’s values and enabled by a highly motivated and capable team.

As Programme Coordinator you will lead colleagues in designing and delivering good quality Me Time support, playing a key role in planning, monitoring and reviewing community opportunities, ensuring we are always listening to and being led by the evidence and lived experience of people with a learning disability.

Building a strengths-based approach to further develop skills and confidence of those being supported, expanding networks, and be fully included in their local community. People with a learning disability steer the activities and are represented at all levels with Me Time through coproduction opportunities.

Provide strong leadership, maintaining high expectations for delivering high-quality opportunities, with positive and effective partnerships with local partners, commissioners and purchasers of Me Time.

Me Time ensure that people with a learning disability can access local assets in the community and increase visibility and inclusion in local planning and developments.

The Me Time model is person centred and focused on improving quality of life for the people being supported, as well as providing pathways to other opportunities, for example volunteering and employment. You will lead on and work alongside community networks to maximise the opportunities for people we support and make the community the best place to live.

What will your day look like? The Me Time Programme Coordinator will

• Demonstrate strong leadership to a team of passionate and highly motivated colleagues
• Be responsible for planning and implementing new initiatives, aiming to assist people with a learning disability to live independent and fulfilling lives.
• Make connections with local community networks, mapping local assets.
• Ensure people can be part of and make important contributions to their local communities.
• Reporting and development along with the recruitment of new colleagues.
• Lead on all aspects of delivery in the local area.
• Significant budget and resource management
• Risk management, ensuring good practice in safeguarding and avoidance of harm.Good knowledge & awareness of safeguarding.

You will manage the local hubs in Nottingham and build community connections to form and thrive and build strong networks with local businesses and providers. You will be aspirational, flexible, and work with others to support people to progress in ways they want to.

You will monitor the delivery of the contracts and prepare quarterly reports and Key Performance Indicators for the Local Authority or Funders. Youwill work collaboratively with other Me Time programmes nationally to share best practice and drive quality and continuous improvement.

Do you have the key skills and requirements?

• Strong Leadership Knowledge & Experience.
• Managing Resources & Allocation of Team Support, Location & Times.
• Contract/Programme Performance Management.
• Budget Management and Funds Seeking Skills.
• Quality Assurance & Compliance.
• Community Ambassador and Partnership Connector.
• Gathering Feedback and Monitoring Impact.
• Management of Properties and Community Spaces.
• Recruiter of Colleagues and Volunteers.

(Please see the Job Description for a more extensive list of responsibilities, experiences and key skills required for this role).

If you have the relevant skills and experiences, we are looking for and this opportunity sounds like the perfect role for you,

This role will close for shortlisting on Monday 21st September 2026.

At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!