Coproduction Lead

Victim Support is looking for a passionate and skilled Coproduction Lead to drive and champion the development of our coproduction approach within the Witness Service. This is a unique opportunity to ensure the experiences and voices of witnesses directly shape how our services are designed, delivered, and continuously improved.

Join Us

If you're passionate about amplifying lived experience, embedding coproduction and designing services that truly meet people's needs, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of support for witnesses.

What we offer

At Victim Support, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent. Our competitive rewards and benefits package includes:

• Flexible Working Options: Including hybrid working.
• Generous Annual Leave: 28 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 33 days plus Bank Holidays, with options to buy or sell annual leave.
• Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
• Pension Plan: 5% employer contribution.
• Enhanced Allowances: Enhanced sick pay, maternity, and paternity payments.
• Exclusive Discounts: High Street, retail, holiday, gym, entertainment, and leisure discounts.
• Financial Wellbeing: Access to our financial wellbeing hub and salary-deducted finance.
• Wellbeing Support: Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.
• Inclusive Networks: Access to EDI networks and colleague cafes.
• Sustainable Travel: Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.
• Career Development: Ongoing training and support with opportunities for career progression.

About the Role

• You'll be part of the Service Design & Innovation team and work alongside dedicated colleagues who are committed to improving support and outcomes for witnesses and victim/survivors across England and Wales. We offer supportive leadership, opportunities for development, and the chance to shape meaningful change at national scale.
• The role is home-based with regular travel across England and Wales. Some evening or weekend work may be required.
• As the Coproduction Lead, you will play a pivotal role in creating a consistent, meaningful, and sustainable coproduction model across the Witness Service. You'll work closely with witnesses, frontline staff, volunteers and partners to build safe, supportive spaces where people feel empowered to share their ideas, experiences and insights.
• You will design and lead coproduction activities - from workshops to journey mapping, prototyping and collaborative design sessions - ensuring that witness experiences inform strategic and operational decision-making. You'll also support the embedding of service design and innovation principles into practice, helping shape the future of our services.

What You'll Do

• Lead the planning and delivery of coproduction activity across the Witness Service.
• Engage directly with witnesses to gather insights that drive service improvements.
• Produce high-quality outputs such as summaries, learning products, and design artefacts.
• Facilitate workshops, engagement groups and prototype testing sessions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including digital, data, operations, research and quality.
• Ensure coproduction approaches are accessible, inclusive, trauma-informed and safe.
• Provide expertise in service design tools such as personas, journey maps and blueprints.
• Support the implementation and evaluation of coproduced solutions in live services.

About You:

We're looking for someone who is energised by collaboration, driven by inclusion, and skilled in putting lived experience at the heart of service design.

You will bring:

• Experience developing and applying coproduction or co-design approaches.
• Proven ability to facilitate engagement activities with diverse groups.
• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and data protection.
• The ability to produce clear, accessible and impactful written outputs.
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusive practice.
• Experience of the criminal justice system, working with national charities, or carrying out Equality Impact Assessments is desirable.

About Us:

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. We put them at the heart of our organisation and our support and campaigns are informed and shaped by them and their experiences.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

At Victim Support, we're proud to celebrate diversity and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We're committed to being an antiracist organisation, and we actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from Black and Asian and other minoritised communities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria for a job where it is practicable to do so. We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment and selection process.

How to apply:

To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date. If you have already registered & started an application, then we will contact you to advise of the amended closing date wherever possible.