We are seeking a creative and driven Programme Manager and Events Coordinator who is ready to take on a unique, hybrid role offering the rare opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable young people and the development of a start up charity. You’ll be a big part of a small organisation, supporting us on the ground to expand our work with young people as well as grow our fundraising resource. The role sits right in the middle of almost everything we do and will be critical to our future development. We are driven by finding someone with the right core skills and fundamental belief in the work we do.  

This role demands a unique combination of skills. You’ll be a capable Programme Manager (or at the very least an aspiring one with a strong desire to step up from your current youth experience), with an understanding of the role outdoor adventure can have in supporting health and wellbeing and underpinning personal development.

In addition to this, we’ve got big ambitions to develop an events strand to our work, which brings together three separate but interlinked fundraising ideas. You will support us to create, shape and implement this new initiative alongside our team, helping us to turn our initial idea into a reality. We are proud to be very much a people-led organisation, so it’s possible that your own strengths and experience may sway the specifics of the role.

Reports to: Senior Management Team

Hours: Full time, 5 days (37.5 hours) a week, flexible working evenings and weekends as required

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 dependant on experience

Location: The Old Fire Station, Leeds (Basecamp HQ), but the role also incorporates travel across Yorkshire and the Lake District

Transport: The role will require access to a car

Start Date: We will accommodate the start date depending on the individual’s situation, but we are looking to get someone in for Spring

Annual Leave: 22 days + bank holidays + 1x day off per Adventure Residential (to account for extra hours worked)

What is Basecamp?

At Basecamp Adventure Trust, we empower vulnerable young people from West Yorkshire to thrive through unique, long-term programmes which harness outdoor adventure as a powerful vehicle for personal transformation. Through a combination of skills workshops, exhilarating adventure trips and a deeply relational approach, we challenge, celebrate and inspire young people to discover a newfound sense of confidence, resilience and self-belief, and to explore new possibilities for themselves. Our programmes are intensive, sustained and individualised to make a lasting positive difference on the young people we work with so they can lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.

The Role

The postholder will play a key role in the development and delivery of both programme and charity events. They will be a brilliant ‘all-rounder’ who can go from speaking to a group of 30 children in a muddy field, to being comfortable behind a laptop researching potential corporate partners, to feeling confident in creative meetings where our ideas become a reality.  We are looking for someone with a strong creative drive, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the natural ability to use initiative. Whilst ticking the experience requirement boxes is important to us, we will always take a holistic view of your application and consider transferable experience.

Programme Manager (~35% of the role) – We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable Programme Manager who can lead the delivery of our Core Programme, having the ability to directly work with young people, lead a team, have an acute eye for detail and organisation and a creative, dynamic approach to problem-solving. The Programme Manager role takes up around 80 days a year, with the days being weighted unevenly across the months of the year.

Events Coordinator (~65% of the role) – We are looking for a driven and creative Events Coordinator who will help us create a Basecamp calendar of external events, which will support our fundraising goals and bring a large and diverse audience to our work. The right candidate will be excited at the prospect of turning ideas into a reality, supporting us with the creative development of this idea as well as the practical implementation.

To see the comprehensive list of roles and responsibilities alongside the skills and experience we're looking for, please visit Programme Manager and Events Coordinator — Basecamp Adventure Trust

 

How to Apply

Please apply to Jenny, Senior Programme Manager by email at [email protected] by Friday 24th April 2026 by submitting the two documents below:

• Current CV including contact details for two referees (one from your current/most recent employer)

• A covering letter (500 words max.) which outlines your personal vision, experience and motivations for the role, as well as any skills you have developed through working in this field. Please make specific reference to the Job Description above.

Note: All documents should either be in PDF or MS Word format and be attached to the application (documents should not require passwords or links to cloud systems, such as Google Drive).

Applications will start to be processed as soon as they are received. If we think you might be a good fit, you will be invited for an interview. Thereafter, we may invite you for an assessment day and/or second interview where you'll get the chance to interact with some of our young people.