Digital Platform Lead

  • Prospectus
  • Apr 29, 2026
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

Salary: £30.14 per hour plus holiday pay (£55,000 FTE)
Contract: 3-4 month contact, Full time (35 hrs)
Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London, Grimsby and Rochdale
Start: ASAP
Please note internally this role is call Lead on Measurement, Learning and Digital Work.

We re recruiting a Digital Platform Lead to support a mission driven organisation during a critical delivery period, covering parental leave.

This role focuses on the finalisation, launch and live management of a simple, interactive digital platform designed to keep communities engaged between in person activity. The platform functions as an accessible website where people can interact, share ideas and take part in decision making, and has been developed using AI enabled tools with external developer support in place.

The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the platform runs smoothly during live use, generating real time insight to inform operational teams and supporting early stage impact measurement activity.

Key responsibilities:

  • Finalise and launch a community engagement platform, working closely with the developer (Cookie Wolf)

  • Oversee day to day platform operation, troubleshooting issues and managing moderation

  • Use the platform to support storytelling, community updates and public participation

  • Lead the digital delivery of a public visioning process, enabling people to submit ideas and vote

  • Analyse live engagement data to inform outreach and operational decisions

  • Maintain and develop early stage data collection tools to support impact measurement

  • Consolidate data from events, web communications and social media

  • Support team learning activity and the development of a learning culture

About you:

  • Experience managing live digital platforms or interactive websites

  • Comfortable working on the technical side of delivery and liaising with developers

  • Able to troubleshoot issues and take ownership of externally visible digital tools

  • Confident using data to generate practical insight (rather than producing formal reports)

  • Happy working independently while feeding insight into operational and senior teams

This is an excellent short term opportunity for someone who enjoys hands on digital delivery, community engagement and learning led work with clear social impact.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so please apply ASAP by submitting your CV in Word format.

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