Senior Practice Development Manager

Homeless Link; City Of London; Hybride; GBP 50 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working arrangements

Generous annual leave

Employer pension contributions

Employee support programme

Cycle to work scheme

Professional development opportunities

DBS check provision

Résumé du poste

Homeless Link is seeking a Senior Practice Development Manager to lead a team of Practice Development Managers and drive innovative, evidence-based practice to end rough sleeping in England.

You will coordinate project delivery with partners and government officials, ensuring measurable impact across multiple initiatives while maintaining strong external relationships and high-quality outputs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects and programmes to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver at pace.
• Strong networking, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for diverse audiences.
• Experience presenting, running workshops and facilitating events.
• Analytical, problem-solving mindset with creative thinking.

Responsabilités

• Lead and line-manage Practice Development Managers to meet objectives.
• Coordinate delivery of projects in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Quality assure activities and outputs from the team.
• Plan, manage risk and monitor budgets for team projects.
• Engage with members, government officials and internal teams to drive impact.

Connaissances

Line management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic planning

Communication

Public speaking

Outils

MS Office

Description du poste

Senior Practice Development Manager

Location: Flexible, London Head Office (minimum 2 days per week in the office) or Home Based
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: (London, Hybrid) or (home-based)
Closing Date: 12pm, Monday 19th October 2026
Interview Dates: Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November (expected)

Join Homeless Link

Homeless Link is the national membership charity for frontline homeless agencies in England. With more than 750 members, we work to improve services and campaign for policy change that will help end homelessness and ensure that everyone has a place to call home and the support they need to keep it.

Homeless Link’s Innovation & Good Practice team plays a pivotal role in helping the sector respond to new challenges, improve service quality and deliver better outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. We ensure sector leaders and people working on the frontline have access to the information they need to support people effectively. We also explore, develop and enable implementation of evidence-based practices to set the standards in the sector and improve the design and delivery of services which end homelessness.

The role of Senior Practice Development Manager is varied. You will be responsible for leading a team of Practice Development Managers and managing a variety of projects. You will engage with a broad range of external and internal stakeholders, including Homeless Link members and government officials, develop creative and impactful practice resources and use a variety of dissemination and influencing methods.

This is an exciting role, in a great team! We are passionate about what we do and are seeking candidates who share our values of continuous learning, curiosity and collaboration to create positive change.

About the Role

We’re looking to recruit a Senior Practice Development Manager to identify, develop, define and disseminate emerging and positive practice and influence improvements to help end rough sleeping and homelessness in England.

The Senior Practice Development Manager manages a team of Practice Development Managers and reports to the Head of Innovation and Good Practice. This role will operationally lead and coordinate project delivery within Innovation and Good Practice, with project partners, and with other teams at Homeless Link. To ensure the Innovation and Good Practice Team is demonstrating clear and measurable impact.

Other responsibilities include (but not limited to)

• Management and Leadership
• To line manage, coach and support Practice Development Managers to deliver on their agreed objectives to a high standard.
• To provide ongoing performance management, support and annual appraisals to direct reports.
• To work with the Head of IGP to organise and facilitate team meetings, away days and other cross-team development activities.
• To oversee delivery of a portfolio of projects and consultancy work delivered by Practice Development Managers and Consultants.
• To quality assure activities and outputs by Practice Development Managers.
• To lead on team project planning, risk management, budget management and monitoring and evaluation (in collaboration with Head of IGP)

For full details of the role please download our Recruitment Pack.

Senior_Practice_Development_Manager_Recruitment_Pack.pdf

About You

We're looking for an experienced manager who can leading and manage projects and programmes of work, to achieve specific outcomes. You will be an hands on line management with the ability to support, coach and develop high performing staff. You will be focused on managing services for people experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping or multiple disadvantage.

You will bring experience of:

• Successful planning and management of multiple and conflicting priorities to deliver at pace.
• Planning and delivering projects or other activities in collaboration with other people and organisations.
• Networking, influencing and negotiation skills with experience of building effective, credible relationships internally and externally with people at all levels.
• Strong communication skills, including writing with impact for a range of audiences e.g. blogs, resources, reports and web content.
• Delivering presentations, workshops, training, or other public speaking and/or facilitation.
• Applying effective critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, with a creative approach to generating ideas and developing new ways of working.
• Dealing with information that is sensitive or confidential.
• Using IT systems, including MS Office, on a day-to-day basis.

Location and Working Arrangements

This role can be based at our London Head Office or b can be home-based, with flexibility to work remotely. The successful candidate must be willing to travel across the UK when required, including occasional overnight stays.

Employee Benefits

Homeless Link is proud to offers a wide range of generous benefits including:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Enhanced Maternity, Parental, Adoption and Sick Pay schemes
• Enhanced employer pension contributions and Salary Exchange Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan scheme
• Access to the Blue Light Card scheme
• Group Life Assurance scheme (4x Scheme Salary benefit)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Homeless Link is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and actively welcomes applications from people with lived experience of homelessness, people from Black and minority ethnic communities, disabled people and other underrepresented groups. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

Please note: All successful applicants will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK and complete or provide a basic DBS certificate.