Sheffield, S1 4EB
£35,078 per annum
Fixed Term Contract to 31st March 2027, Full Time (37 hours per week)
We have an exciting opportunity for a compassionate and values-driven Co-Production Lead to join our Coproduction and Peer Support Service. You will lead a team of Programme Coordinators and Coproduction Associates, ensuring that lived experience of multiple disadvantage remains at the heart of shaping change.
You will play a key role in promoting the recovery and personal growth of volunteers with lived experience, creating safe, trauma-informed spaces where they can learn, build confidence, and develop new skills. You will lead on the design and delivery of a learning and development programme that helps volunteers build confidence, resilience, and skills to progress into further volunteering, training, or employment. You will also capture and evidence the impact of lived experience on systems and services, using data and insight to influence positive change across Sheffield and beyond.
What you’ll be doing
As Coproduction Lead, you will:
- Provide operational leadership for our Coproduction Service, empowering staff and volunteers with lived experience to influence positive change.
- Design and deliver an engaging learning and development programme to build confidence, resilience, and skills.
- Ensure the safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed delivery of coproduction workshops and engagement activities.
- Champion the involvement of people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage at the heart of governance structures, ensuring their insights and expertise shape decision-making and guide the future direction of the work.
- Support staff and volunteers to develop strong professional and emotional boundaries.
- Oversee data collection and evaluation to evidence the impact of lived experience involvement.
- Build strong partnerships with local authorities, statutory services, and voluntary organisations to expand the reach and influence of the service.
- Manage budgets, contribute to service planning, and ensure value for money through effective financial oversight
Who you are:
We’d love to hear from you if you:
- Have experience leading, supervising, or coordinating a team, particularly one involving people with lived experience.
- Understand coproduction, trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches, and can embed them in everyday practice.
- Are passionate about creating safe, empowering environments that support recovery and personal growth.
- Can inspire and motivate others, supporting both staff and volunteers to grow and thrive.
- Can balance empathy with professionalism, supporting people to develop boundaries, resilience, and adaptability.
- Have excellent communication, facilitation, and partnership-building skills.
- Are confident using data and evidence to measure and demonstrate impact.
We welcome applicants who bring lived experience of multiple disadvantage (such as homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges, or contact with the criminal justice system) and who are committed to using that insight to create meaningful change.
Our wider benefits:
- Salary: £35,078 – £38,424 (Grade 4D)
- Working hours: 37 hours per week
- Generous holiday entitlement: 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days
- Pension contribution
- Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share
- Excellent benefits including:
- SYHA Rewards – employee discount scheme
- Westfield Health (employer paid)
- Counselling
- Discounted Gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Training and development opportunities
Who we are:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.
Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.
Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.
At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
SYHA does not hold a sponsorship license and are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
Closing Date: Sunday 23rd November 2025 at midnight
Interview Date: Tuesday 2nd December 2025
