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Job Title: Policy and Influencing Manager
Organisation: Kids
Location: Remote (with travel to London up to once a week for meetings)
Salary: £33,000–£35,000
Contract: Full-time or 4 days/week (Flexible working available)
Make change happen – for every child.
At Kids, we believe every child should have the opportunity to thrive – regardless of disability or circumstance. As our Policy and Influencing Manager, you’ll play a vital role in making this a reality. You’ll help shape policies that amplify the voices and experiences of disabled children and young people, turning insight into influence and ideas into action.
This is a unique opportunity to lead bold, evidence-based policy work that reflects the lived experiences of the families we support. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation and sector, you’ll inform decision-makers, respond to developments in the SEND landscape, and ensure that young people’s voices are at the heart of the change we seek.
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive policy professional who’s ready to help build something powerful – and lasting – at a critical time for SEND reform in the UK.
What you'll do
Policy & Influencing
- Develop accessible and compelling policy briefings, consultation responses, reports, speeches, and presentations for a range of stakeholders, including MPs, government officials, and sector partners.
- Translate complex ideas into clear, persuasive communications that support positive change.
- Collaborate with our Youth Voice Manager to ensure our policy positions reflect the real experiences of the young people and families we support.
- Help deliver and monitor our policy and influencing strategy in collaboration with the Head of Policy, Voice and Influencing.
Research & Evidence
- Carry out high-quality research and analysis from both internal and external sources.
- Centre the experiences and insights of disabled children, young people, and their families in policy solutions
- Monitor policy developments across the SEND landscape and lead on timely, evidence-led responses.
- Track progress against our influencing goals and ensure our actions remain targeted and impactful.
Engagement & Relationship Building
- Build strong relationships with decision-makers across government and the public sector.
- Support the Head of Policy, Voice and Influencing to plan and deliver our strategic external engagement plan in order to focus and drive our wider influencing work
- Represent Kids at meetings and events, including engaging MPs, civil servants, and other key influencers.
- Work closely with internal teams and front-line colleagues to ensure our influencing work is grounded in practice and informed by those delivering services.
Collaboration & Strategic Partnerships
- Work alongside the Head of Policy, Voice and Influencing and Youth Voice Manager to deliver our external engagement strategy including deputising at meetings when required.
- Support collaboration across teams to bring in parent, carer, and young person voices.
- Contribute to external coalitions and alliances – attending meetings, aligning with others’ work, and championing Kids' policy priorities.
What you'll bring
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a policy role and demonstrable experience of using policy and evidence to influence outcomes– ideally within the disability sector.
- Strong understanding of the SEND system and related policies and legislation (through lived or professional experience).
- Excellent writing skills – able to craft persuasive policy briefings, consultation responses, and reports with clarity and purpose.
- Confident communicator, able to engage a range of audiences in person and in writing.
- Strong research and analytical skills – able to sift through evidence and develop insight-driven policy recommendations.
- Ability to build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Highly organised, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Passionate about inclusion, equity, and social justice – with a strong motivation to elevate the voices of disabled children and young people.
Why work at Kids?
We’re a mission-driven organisation, building a fairer world where all children have the opportunity to flourish. You’ll join a growing team in a pivotal role, helping to shape the future of policy and advocacy at Kids.
We’re committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We’re especially keen to hear from people with lived experience of disability or SEND, either personally or within your family or community.
Ready to create change that counts?
Apply now and help us influence a better, more inclusive future for disabled children and young people.
Note: We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. Please apply promptly
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The role will also support our front-line services and advocacy teams on securing institutional contracts for direct service provision.
Benefits
All full-time employees benefit from 28 days holiday per calendar year (plus bank holidays). In addtion to these days;
- 1 day in addition to the 28 Holidays to be taken on employees’ birthday.
- 1 day in addition to the 28 Holidays per calendar year to take during religious celebrations of choice/relevant to the employee.
- 2 days to be taken to for volunteering activities (unrelated to work!) of an interest to the employee.
- 3 days are available per calendar year to be taken to alleviate mental health pressures.
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Pension
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Cycle to Work Scheme
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Flexible Working
We have a flexible working policy, and employees have the right to have their request for flexible working considered by Doctors of the World. This includes a request (2 requests per annum) to work outside of the UK for up to 4 weeks per year and to define the working arrangements (according to needs of contract) to balance working from home and office/clinic.
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We require blended working from home and from our office in Crawley with Thursday in the office and one other day a week to be agreed. This is a one-year fixed term contract. The role requires an all-rounder who is comfortable giving calm support to people in crisis, can demonstrate a high level of organisational skills in a fast-paced work environment and a passion for educating the public on the issue of immigration detention.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- Managing a caseload of clients in detention
- Coordinating Detention Centre drop-ins
- Supporting on research projects
- Leading on educational outreach
- Leading on training IRC-related staff
- Supporting Advocacy and Support Volunteers
- Coordinating volunteer training
- Volunteer coordination
Skills and experience required:
Essential
- Attention to detail
- Empathy with GDWG’s values and mission and with the issues facing refugees, people seeking asylum, and those in or with experience of detention
- Ability and willingness to learn and develop in the role
- Initiative, problem-solving, and resourcefulness
- Reliability
- Ability to build strong working relationships with external contacts and volunteers
- Natural empathy and ability to build trust with those we support in detention
- Non-judgmental attitude and ability to work with clients with unconditional positive regard
- Ability to maintain effective professional boundaries with those we support
- Teamwork and self-reliance: ability to work well with others and also use initiative
- Effective time management and ability to juggle and prioritise competing demands on their time
- Understanding of issues faced by migrants with an unstable immigration status
- Experience using databases
- Experience using Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience receiving and sending emails
Preferred
- Lived experience of detention/the asylum system or experience of work with refugees, migrants, criminal justice, or human rights
- Experience of work/volunteering in the voluntary sector
- Good understanding of mental health and complex needs
- Experience of safeguarding people with vulnerabilities
Equal Opportunities
GDWG is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that isinclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and valuesthe diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including those with lived experience of detention and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged. We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people and guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application demonstrates the essential requirements of the role.
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The role works to maximise DOTW’s influence and impact on health policy debates whilst influencing practice in health services to ensure accessible and equitable healthcare for everyone living in the UK.
The role will take a lead on Doctors of the World’s work to build capacity within the UK health system to provide accessible and equitable primary care services for migrants and refugees and be responsible for managing, analysing and reporting on data from our medical programmes in order to support advocacy and research work.
Full time role. Applications for the role on a part time basis are welcomed. Please specify this in your covering letter.
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Age UK's award-winning Individual Marketing team is currently recruiting for a Senior Direct Marketing Executive to join our acquisition sub-team. This role is responsible for ensuring we acquire new donors to the charity via multiple offline channels including TV, flyers, door drops and face to face.
As a Senior Direct Marketing Executive, you will be responsible for delivering successful offline campaigns with the primary intention of acquiring new financial donors to Age UK. We're looking for someone with experience delivering and managing direct campaigns to budget, with a keen interest in testing campaigns with a view to enacting changes based on findings. You will need to be comfortable liaising with external suppliers including creative agencies.
For a more exhaustive list of responsibilities, please read the job description below.
This role offers hybrid working between home and London (EC3N 2LB). Currently the Fundraising team attend our office near Tower Hill every Thursday, so you would be expected to do the same. Age UK does not pay travel costs to the office.
Must haves:
The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P
Experience
Proven successful experience in cause driven acquisition direct marketing. A, I
Proven experience of managing media planning and buying for multi-channel acquisition campaigns. A, I
Proven successful experience of managing large complex direct marketing print campaigns. A, I
Proven successful experience of budget management. A, I
Proven successful experience of managing internal and external stakeholders through various processes including sign off. A, I
Skills and knowledge
Proficient in the use of MS office applications, particularly Excel and Word. T
Numerical and analytical skills. T
Project management skills. A, I
Personal attributes
Ability to work on own initiative and be a self-starter. A, I
Communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with people at all levels. I
Build great working relationships with internal teams to encourage a culture of collaboration. I
Great to Have's:
The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P
Experience
Proven experience of recruiting new supporters via face-to-face campaigns. A, I
Proven successful experience of editing and proofing copy. A, I
Personal attributes
emonstrate empathy and understanding for the issues facing older people. I
What we offer in return
Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
Blue Light Card Scheme
You Did It Awards – recognition awards from £100-250.
Additional Information
* The role may involve occasional travel, including some overnight stays. Currently the Fundraising team attend our office near Tower Hill every Thursday, so you would be expected to do the same. Age UK does not pay travel costs to the office.
* This role description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect, but rather to clearly define the fundamental purpose, responsibilities and dimensions for the role.
* In addition to the contents of this role description, employees are expected to undertake any and all other reasonable and related tasks allocated by line management.
Supporting statements and anonymisation
Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected.
Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.
Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Reasonable adjustments
Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.
Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.