National School Swimming Programme Lead

Orange Recruitment; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Swim Wales is seeking a Programme Manager (Nofio Ysgol) to lead a four-year national school swimming and water safety initiative. The role focuses on planning, governance, and delivery across Wales, in partnership with Welsh Government and local authorities.

You will oversee budgets, monitoring, and performance reporting while driving inclusivity and safeguarding across all activities and stakeholders involved in the programme.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing complex programmes or projects.
• Strong programme planning, governance, risk management and reporting.
• Proven ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders, influencing decisions.
• Experience in budgeting, monitoring and compliance with funder requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce high-quality reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management and national delivery of the Nofio Ysgol programme per Welsh Government expectations.
• Coordinate relationships with Welsh Government, local authorities, schools and partners.
• Deliver a national minimum school swimming and water safety offer with quality and accessibility.
• Manage budgets, procurement and financial monitoring.
• Develop monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes with dashboards for oversight.
• Identify and mitigate barriers to delivery, including transport and access needs.
• Lead workforce training, resources, and quality assurance for safe delivery.
• Prepare reports for Swim Wales leadership and funders.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Data analysis

Communication

Leadership

Safeguarding and Inclusion

IT skills

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

Microsoft 365

Collaboration tools

Data reporting tools

Job description

Swim Wales is seeking a Programme Manager (Nofio Ysgol) to lead a four-year national school swimming and water safety initiative. The role focuses on planning, governance, and delivery across Wales, in partnership with Welsh Government and local authorities.

You will oversee budgets, monitoring, and performance reporting while driving inclusivity and safeguarding across all activities and stakeholders involved in the programme.