Practice and Policy Lead - Climate Resilience
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About the role:
This role is key to our new partnership programme influencing practice and policy on climate resilience and emergency preparedness at local and national levels. It presents a fantastic opportunity to effect real change in how our government responds to the needs of people most affected by climate change.
We are looking for someone who can be a bridge between the statutory and voluntary resilience communities and equality groups. You’ll have a thorough understanding of emergency preparedness and response systems, and a commitment to transform how they operate for the benefit of everyone, by working collaboratively with a rights based approach.
About the programme:
Hosted and supported by Equally Ours, this role exists as part of an innovative, collaborative team that brings together five roles from three different organisations: Equally Ours, Communities Prepared (Groundwork South) and the VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP). This brand new programme has received £2,052,488.00 over five years from the Climate Action Fund, a long-term commitment from The National Lottery Community Fund to support communities across the UK to act on climate change and involve more people in positive environmental action.
About the organisation:
Equally Ours is the UK charity that brings together people and organisations working across equality, human rights and social justice to make a reality of these in everyone’s lives. Our vision is a just and compassionate society, where we are free from harm and can all contribute and flourish, whoever we are, whatever we believe in, and whatever we do and don’t have. A society that is equally ours.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Programme Leadership
- Lead Equally Ours’ contribution to the programme. Shaping and delivering the programme’s policy, influencing and systems change objectives.
- Work closely with programme partners Communities Prepared (Groundwork South) and the VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP) to ensure joined-up co-design and delivery across community engagement, resilience training, strategic communications and influencing activity.
- Facilitate and enable the co-design process and provide a pan-equality analysis on thought leadership.
- Lead for the programme on liaison and knowledge exchange with initiatives in the devolved nations.
Policy Influencing
- Drive systems change: Support efforts to redesign climate resilience policy and practice at local, regional and national levels, ensuring it better reflects the needs and rights, experiences and expertise of communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage.
- Build strategic relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with equality organisations, government departments, voluntary and statutory sector partners and resilience stakeholders.
- Support influencing activity: Coordinate and contribute to consultations, policy submissions, roundtables, events and stakeholder engagement opportunities that strengthen the programme’s influence and impact.
- Promote a rights-based approach: Champion intersectional, pan-equality and human rights based approaches across climate resilience policy, practice and partnership working.
Person Specification (Essential Skills and Experience):
- Demonstrable experience or understanding of statutory and voluntary sector duties and action on climate resilience in relation to extreme weather event preparedness and response.
- Policy and influencing experience: Demonstrable experience of creating policy or practice change, ideally linked to equality, social justice, climate resilience or related areas.
- Partnership and stakeholder engagement: Experience of building positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, including community organisations, networks, public bodies or voluntary sector partners.
- Community engagement: Experience of engaging with communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage in meaningful, inclusive and accessible ways.
- Understanding of equality and human rights: Professional or lived experience combined with a strong understanding of equality, intersectionality and human rights principles, and the ability to apply them in practice.
- Communication and collaboration skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and facilitate confidently with a range of audiences and work collaboratively as part of a partnership programme.
- Organisation and programme coordination: Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate activity and work effectively across multiple projects and stakeholders.
- Anti-Racism, intersectionality and a human rights approach: Commitment to embed these principles across all aspects of our work.
Please read the full application pack attached before applying.
Please note we will only accept applications that include a cover letter.
Please submit a CV and cover letter (max 2 pages) explaining your interest in this role by 11pm on 30th June. Ensure that you address all the criteria, providing sufficient relevant evidence, including examples, to show how your skills and experience match those required in the person specification. Please note that for shortlisting, essential criteria 1-5 will be weighted.
If you would like to apply under the guaranteed interview scheme, you can find details on the last page of the attached application pack.
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