Home-Start UK
Director of Network Impact
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Director of Network Impact
Reporting To: Co CEOs
Manages: Assistant Director of Quality and Safeguarding, Assistant Director of Network Development and Impact, Strategic Lead for Scotland
Location: Remote, with regular travel across the network, to meet with partners or attend events, and to our central office in Leicester for collaborative meetings and team activities.
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £82,000 per annum
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week, flexible).
Key Responsibilities
Strategic and Executive Leadership
- As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, contribute to the overall leadership, strategy, culture, performance and sustainability of Home-Start UK.
- Provide executive leadership for Network Impact, ensuring that Network, Practice and Volunteering Development, Learning and Engagement, Quality and Safeguarding, and Data, Insight and Impact operate as an integrated and high-performing function.
- Provide high-quality reporting, advice and assurance to the Trustee Board, Impact Committee and Executive Leadership Team on areas within Network Impact remit.
- Lead the directorate’s contribution to organisational strategy, business and resource planning, budgeting, risk management and performance reporting.
- Model collective leadership across HSUK, working collaboratively with other Directors and the wider Leadership Team to ensure strong cross-organisational alignment, communication and accountability.
- Build strong relationships with network leadership and ensure network voice and insight shapes Home-Start UK’s strategic development and delivery, co-leading the network Strategic Reference Group and further embedding shared governance and co-production in our ways of working.
Quality, safeguarding and assurance
- Set the strategic direction for ongoing delivery of a robust and supportive programme of quality assurance and policy development for the Home-Start network.
- Ensure the Home-Start Handbook and Agreement, which provide the legal underpinning for how our federation operates, are actively implemented and understood across the network, with a robust review cycle in place.
- Act as Strategic Safeguarding Lead for Home-Start UK and provide oversight of work to ensure strong safeguarding culture, policy and practice across the network.
- Provide strong oversight of reportable incidents, safeguarding concerns and disputes to ensure they are managed robustly, sensitively and in line with policy and governance requirements.
- Ensure learning from quality assurance, safeguarding, reportable incidents, complaints, disputes and network support informs strategic planning and risk management.
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Strengthening and sustaining the Home-Start network
- Lead Home-Start UK’s strategic work to strengthen the sustainability, resilience and impact of the Home-Start network.
- Ensure local Home-Starts are supported to operate safely, sustainably and effectively, targeting support to strengthen leadership, governance and organisational resilience.
- Embed a data-driven approach to network health, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, understood and acted on proportionately.
- Ensure Home-Start UK’s work with the network balances national consistency with local autonomy, recognising the diversity of Home-Starts and the contexts in which they operate.
Network development, learning and engagement
- Provide strategic oversight of an evidence-led and policy-informed programme of network development, learning and engagement.
- Set the strategic direction for strengthening and evolving Home-Start’s volunteering offer, to grow our communities of support nationally.
- Oversee work to enable high-quality family practice across the network, including in perinatal and infant mental health, father-inclusive practice, school readiness, multi-agency working, and inclusive, trauma-informed approaches.
- Oversee the strategic development of Home-Start’s learning and development offer, ensuring the Learning Centre and related platforms build the skills, confidence and capability of staff, volunteers and trustees across the network.
- Ensure learning is cultivated and shared across the network, celebrating innovation and turning promising practice into shared resources, guidance and support.
- Continually strengthen network communications and engagement so that local Home-Starts experience Home-Start UK as clear, accessible, responsive and enabling.
- Provide strategic oversight of the Scotland Strategic Lead’s work and wider nations and regions developments, ensuring these are aligned with Home-Start strategy, responsive to devolved contexts, and connected to wider network learning and engagement.
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Data, insight and impact
- Oversee the strategic development of strengthened approaches to network health intelligence, impact measurement and family voice, to help Home-Start UK and local Home-Starts understand need, quality, reach, sustainability and impact.
- Build Home-Start UK’s capacity to elevate the voices of babies, children and families, to inform the design of services and influence for change.
- Ensure Home-Start UK uses data and evidence to demonstrate the impact of Home-Start’s support for babies, children and families, and the value of Home-Start UK’s work in supporting and enabling the network.
Strategic partnerships, Fundraising, income generation
- Develop and maintain partnerships with external organisations who can support us to strengthen and enhance network impact – whether research organisations, other charities or service providers.
- Contribute to Home-Start UK’s fundraising and income generation by shaping evidence-led propositions, strengthening the case for support, and ensuring delivery plans are credible, fundable and impact-focused.
- Work closely with Fundraising colleagues to identify opportunities, develop fundable programmes, support bids and steward partnerships where Network Impact expertise is central to delivery.
This job description is not contractual and is liable to change over time.
To apply:
Please submit a CV, together with a supporting statement explaining how your experience, leadership approach and values demonstrate your suitability for the role of Director of Network Impact.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 27th September, 10pm
As part of our recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be invited to a first-stage online interview on Tuesday 6th October 2026 followed by a second stage in person interview on Wednesday 14th October 2026 in Leicester.
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