Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager | Leadership Team
CompanyAberdeen Cyrenians
Location
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At5/12/2026
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Description
About Us
Aberdeen Cyrenians is a social purpose organisation working to ensure no one in Aberdeen is left to face crisis alone. Our mission is to prevent homelessness and unnecessary hospital admissions by addressing the social determinants of health through a community‑based, public‑health approach.
We work with people affected by poverty, trauma, poor health, housing insecurity and social exclusion, often experiencing multiple and overlapping disadvantages. Our work is grounded in prevention, early intervention, holistic support and collaboration, with lived experience at the centre of how we design and deliver services.
In 2025 we launched a new five‑year Strategic Plan (2025–2030), setting a clear direction for the organisation’s future with an increased focus on prevention, integration, leadership resilience and systems change.
You can find out more about our organisation and our impact at www.weareac.org
Position:
Job title: Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager | Leadership Team
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Hours of work: 39 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Salary: £45,966.00
Scale Point: 46
Contract: Permanent
Why this role exists
As the organisation enters this next phase, the scale and ambition of our Strategic Plan requires dedicated leadership capacity to focus on how strategy is delivered, embedded and sustained alongside, but distinct from, day‑to‑day operational delivery.
The Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager role has been created to provide that capacity. It is a senior, cross‑cutting leadership role designed to strengthen how community services, income and engagement, and organisational insight work together to deliver long‑term impact.
Initially, the aim will be to allow new approaches, leadership models and ways of working to be established, tested and embedded.
A key element of this role is lead responsibility for planning and coordinating Aberdeen Cyrenians’ 60th anniversary in 2028. This will require early strategic planning (commencing at least 18 months in advance), the development of a clear and high-impact programme of activity, and proactive engagement with local and national media, elected representatives, funders and key stakeholders to maximise reach, profile and impact.
Purpose of the Role
Aberdeen Cyrenians is a social purpose organisation working to ensure no one in Aberdeen is left to face crisis alone. Our mission is to prevent homelessness and unnecessary hospital admissions by addressing the social determinants of health through a community‑based, public‑health approach.
We work with people affected by poverty, trauma, poor health, housing insecurity and social exclusion, often experiencing multiple and overlapping disadvantages. Our work is grounded in prevention, early intervention, holistic support and collaboration, with lived experience at the centre of how we design and deliver services.
In 2025 we launched a new five‑year Strategic Plan (2025–2030), setting a clear direction for the organisation’s future with an increased focus on prevention, integration, leadership resilience and systems change.
You can find out more about our organisation and our impact at www.weareac.org
Position:
Job title: Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager | Leadership Team
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Hours of work: 39 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Salary: £45,966.00
Scale Point: 46
Contract: Permanent
Why this role exists
As the organisation enters this next phase, the scale and ambition of our Strategic Plan requires dedicated leadership capacity to focus on how strategy is delivered, embedded and sustained alongside, but distinct from, day‑to‑day operational delivery.
The Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager role has been created to provide that capacity. It is a senior, cross‑cutting leadership role designed to strengthen how community services, income and engagement, and organisational insight work together to deliver long‑term impact.
Initially, the aim will be to allow new approaches, leadership models and ways of working to be established, tested and embedded.
A key element of this role is lead responsibility for planning and coordinating Aberdeen Cyrenians’ 60th anniversary in 2028. This will require early strategic planning (commencing at least 18 months in advance), the development of a clear and high-impact programme of activity, and proactive engagement with local and national media, elected representatives, funders and key stakeholders to maximise reach, profile and impact.
Purpose of the Role
Working closely with the CEO and the Head of People & Operations, the Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager will provide senior leadership across services and organisational development, ensuring that Aberdeen Cyrenians’ strategy is translated into practice, learning and sustainable change.
The role combines line management responsibility with a strong focus on strategic delivery, transformation and organisational resilience. It is designed to move the organisation away from reactive, siloed working and towards clearer alignment, stronger leadership depth and more intentional planning for the future.
This is not a purely operational role. While it includes line management, its emphasis is on leadership, alignment, innovation and embedding change rather than routine service troubleshooting.
This matrix approach is a deliberate design choice, intended to:
Key Responsibilities
The Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager will:
The role combines line management responsibility with a strong focus on strategic delivery, transformation and organisational resilience. It is designed to move the organisation away from reactive, siloed working and towards clearer alignment, stronger leadership depth and more intentional planning for the future.
This is not a purely operational role. While it includes line management, its emphasis is on leadership, alignment, innovation and embedding change rather than routine service troubleshooting.
This matrix approach is a deliberate design choice, intended to:
- improve strategic alignment across delivery, income and insight;
- ensure learning from frontline practice informs organisational decision‑making; and
- strengthen collaboration across functions that are often siloed.
Key Responsibilities
The Strategic Delivery & Transformation Manager will:
- Lead and support delivery of the organisation’s 2025–2030 Strategic Plan, ensuring priorities are translated into clear action, sequencing and accountability.
- Provide line management and leadership support focusing on quality, consistency, learning and adaptation rather than day‑to‑day task management.
- Strengthen alignment between community services, income and engagement, and data‑led insight to support sustainability and informed decision‑making.
- Support the development, testing and embedding of new ways of working, including partnership models, cross‑team collaboration and preventative approaches.
- Work with teams to identify risks, opportunities and capacity gaps, supporting proactive planning rather than reactive responses.
This role is:
- strategic, cross‑organisational and change‑focused;
- designed to influence and align, as well as manage;
- about strengthening how the organisation works, not just what it delivers.
- a replacement for existing operational management roles;
- a short‑term project post with no lasting legacy;
- a purely inward‑facing leadership role.
We are looking for someone who brings:
- Experience in a senior or strategic role within complex, values‑driven organisations (third sector, public sector, social enterprise or similar).
- Confidence working across operational, strategic and leadership boundaries.
- Experience of leading teams through change, improvement or transformation.
- Strong relationship‑building and influencing skills.
- Comfort working with ambiguity and helping shape work as it evolves.
- A commitment to learning, reflection and co‑production, including with people with lived experience.
Other information:
You can expect the following working for us:
- Comprehensive training through our online Learning Management System
- Opportunity to pursue on the job qualifications and career progression
Because we work with vulnerable people, we have a responsibility to safeguard them. We undertake background and reference checks, and it is a term of employment with us that all employees register with the Protecting Vulnerable Groups ("PVG") scheme operated by Disclosure Scotland.
We guarantee an interview to candidates who have lived experience within the areas of society and the issues that we support and those who are care-experienced, subject to meeting the minimum criteria for the role.
We're an equal opportunities employer and value diversity - exclusion has no place in our workplaces. If you need us to make reasonable adjustments to allow you to attend an interview with us, just let us know.
We regret that, due to current Home Office rules, we are not able to sponsor applicants for this role, so you must be eligible to live and work in the UK without sponsorship.
The closing date for this position is Tuesday, 26th May 2026.
We review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early should sufficient applications be received.