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Service Development Manager

Location South of England
Salary £46,895 - £51,102 pa
Contract / Full time / 37.5 hours per week
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Secondment/fixed term opportunity until 22 October 2025

We have an exciting opportunity to join the organisation as Service Development Manager to cover our South Region (South London and South of England). This will have a particular focus on delivering new housing and homeless projects, developing and improving our current provision.

This role is will support services in Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Sutton, Brighton and Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole.

Key responsibilities in these roles are:

  • To investigate and develop new business opportunities. To work with the Service Director and Business Development Team on developing and growing our portfolio of services within the Region; supporting the development of regional pipelines and a regional growth strategy
  • To establish and implement new contracts. To be directly responsible for the successful implementation and startup of new teams and services
  • To support Regional Heads where management gaps, issues or opportunities arise. To lead and motivate the managers responsible for the day to day delivery of an agreed number of teams within the region
  • To build a network of contacts across the region. To represent St Mungo’s to external stakeholders, including local authorities and other funders
  • To support Service Managers in delivering best practice across their services. To help develop and implement processes, initiatives, policies and procedures, and services that promote the key ambitions and approaches of the organisation.

About you

The successful candidate will have experience of leading a team or teams delivering services to groups of vulnerable clients, in an outreach, supported housing, support, care or other relevant environment; of networking, liaising and negotiating and, of successfully setting up new services.

We are looking for people who have a proven ability to complete delegated tasks and to effectively manage multiple service priorities and commissioner contacts. Someone with the energy and project management skills to successfully seize opportunities, trouble shoot problems, implement projects and ensure effective contract compliance.

How to apply

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website.

When you're ready to apply click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to start your online application form. 

Closing date: 10am on 26 February 2025

Interview and assessments on: 5 March 2025

Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients. 

Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:   

  • A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
  • Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
  • A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
  • Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
  • In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website. 

Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion page.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them. 

These include:

  • Agile working model for suitable roles.
  • Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
  • 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
  • Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
  • Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
  • Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
  • Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
  • Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
  • Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.

Want to find out more? Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page. 

At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s.  

These include: 

  • Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
  • Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
  • Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.

A DBS disclosure check is a requirement for this post and will be undertaken for the successful candidate. 

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

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