Two positions:
- 1 x Greater Manchester
- 1 x Barking & Dagenham
We have recently been awarded a transformative multi-year grant from The National Lottery Community Fund as part of its Health Inequities: Structural Racism and Discrimination Partnership. We are one of ten national partners working alongside The National Lottery Community Fund and will take a leading role in shaping how the partnership operates, including building evidence, influencing policy and practice, supporting the design of new national funding programmes, and facilitating collective learning across the partnership.
Alongside this, the centrepiece of our participation will be the delivery of three Anti-Racism Collaboratives (ARCs), each based in a specific locality and rooted in communities experiencing the sharpest health inequities. The initial locations are Greater Manchester, the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.. ARCs will bring together voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations (VCSE), faith organisations, people with lived experience, primary and secondary care providers, local authorities, public health and social care partners. Each ARC will convene a Co-Production Panel (CPP) of people from minoritised ethnic communities to identify where structural racism produces inequitable health outcomes, and to co-produce evidence-led solutions that improve health and tackle the wider determinants of health.
We are recruiting two Changemakers, one each for Greater Manchester and for Barking & Dagenham. As a Changemaker, you will establish and support an ARC within one of our pilot localities, bringing together stakeholders, providing strategic advice and knowledge of research methods and policy opportunities. You will support the design and implementation of health intervention programmes decided on by the ARC that have the power to influence policy, practice and systems.
Working as part of a national team of Changemakers, you will also contribute to the Foundation's evidence, influencing and systems change work, connecting learning from your locality to national policy, while bringing national developments back into local action. Together, the team will develop a replicable model for tackling racial health inequities.
We are looking for an experienced systems change practitioner who is passionate about tackling structural racism and improving health equity. This highly collaborative leadership role requires someone equally comfortable working alongside people with lived experience, senior leaders across health and local government, and colleagues from the voluntary and community sector. Success will depend on your ability to build trusted partnerships, work strategically in complex environments, translate evidence into action, and create the conditions for lasting systems change.
Person Specification
Essential
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Demonstrable experience of leading complex, multi-agency change involving communities, VCSE organisations and statutory partners.
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Strong understanding of how systemic racism operates within health and wider public systems
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Experience of identifying opportunities to redesign policy, commissioning, organisational practice or partnerships to reduce racial inequities.
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Experience of leading or facilitating programmes that sought to tackle systemic racism through systems or organisational change.
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Ability to build trusted relationships across organisations with different priorities and levels of influence, exercising sound judgement in complex and politically sensitive environments.
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Significant experience of working alongside communities experiencing racial inequities to co-produce evidence-led solutions that influence policy, organisational practice or systems.
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A commitment to trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches that recognise community knowledge as equal to professional expertise.
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Experience of synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence and translating it into practical recommendations that influence policy, commissioning, organisational practice or wider systems change.
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Excellent communication and influencing skills, with experience of using evidence and partnership working to shape policy, commissioning or organisational practice.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
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Ability to work strategically while maintaining oversight of programme delivery.
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Ability to work confidently in ambiguity, adapting approaches in response to evidence, community insight and changing organisational contexts.
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Commitment to equity, anti-racism and the values of the Race Equality Foundation.
Desirable
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Experience of working within health and care systems.
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Experience of analysing ethnicity-disaggregated data or wider health inequalities evidence.
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Experience of Action Learning, organisational development or other systems change methodologies.
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Knowledge of the VCSE, statutory and community landscape within the locality.
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Experience of organisational improvement or quality frameworks such as REMI.
For the full job description see attachment.
Applications will only be accepted via application form on our portal. We will not accept any applications via CV.
Please note, we can only accept applications from those already eligible to work in the UK.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Tackling racism, transforming lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
*This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation; the work we do to support those effected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.
Location: Basingstoke
Salary: £26,805.75 - £27,464.70
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type:Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027
Reference Number: STOPDA914
Main Purpose and Scope of the Job:
The work will focus on preventing domestic abuse and breaking the cycle of abuse by providing support for children and young people in the refuge and in the community and supporting children and young people to keep safe.
- Providing support, advice and assistance to women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse and are staying in the refuge.
- Empowering and supporting women to make positive choices.
- Establishing resettlement services to support women to move on from refuge accommodation.
- The post-holder work as part of the refuge team, with clients who live in the refuge after being referred via the Front Door Service
What We Offer:
Time off and Flexibility:
-25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (Increasing with service)
-Birthday day off
-Child’s first day of school off
-Option to purchase up to 10 additional days’ leave per year
-Flexible and hybrid working
-Protected time of up to one hour each month
Family-Friendly Benefits:
-Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave
-IVF Leave
Health and Wellbeing:
-Westfield Health Healthcare Cashback Plan (after probation)
-Westfield Health Personal Health Insurance (after 2 years’ service)
-Employee Assistance Programme
-Eye care vouchers
-Cycle to Work Scheme
About Stop Domestic Abuse:
Stop Domestic Abuse is a proud women-led organisation supporting victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse across Portsmouth and Hampshire. Our vision is a world without domestic abuse, and we work to ensure that it’s ‘everyone’s business.’
We provide refuge and community-based support, delivering in a trauma-informed way for adults, children and young people, tailored to individual needs. Our 19 refuges offer safe, welcoming homes, and across our services we provide one-to-one support and group activities to help improve their safety and to meet others with similar experiences. We support children process their experiences and help regain a sense of safety.
Our UP2U programmes support those seeking to change abusive behaviours, and we also offer specialist support for victims of stalking. We also deliver training to professionals, including the hair and beauty industry, to recognise domestic abuse and connect people to specialist support services.
Our Values:
Equality, Openness, Honesty, Respect for individual dignity and diversity, Empowering women and children, and Care and Compassion – are at the heart of everything we do. By committing to these values, we aim to significantly improve the lives of those we support and work towards our vision of a world without domestic abuse.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
*This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation; the work we do to support those effected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.
Location: Basingstoke
Salary: £26,805.75 - £27,464.70
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type:Permanent
Reference Number: STOPDA850
Main Purpose and Scope of the Job:
The work will focus on preventing domestic abuse and breaking the cycle of abuse by providing support for children and young people in the refuge and in the community and supporting children and young people to keep safe.
- Providing support, advice and assistance to women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse and are staying in the refuge.
- Empowering and supporting women to make positive choices.
- Establishing resettlement services to support women to move on from refuge accommodation.
- The post-holder work as part of the refuge team, with clients who live in the refuge after being referred via the Front Door Service
What We Offer:
Time off and Flexibility:
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (Increasing with service)
- Birthday day off
- Child’s first day of school off
- Option to purchase up to 10 additional days’ leave per year
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Protected time of up to one hour each month
Family-Friendly Benefits:
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave
- IVF Leave
Health and Wellbeing:
- Westfield Health Healthcare Cashback Plan (after probation)
- Westfield Health Personal Health Insurance (after 2 years’ service)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
About Stop Domestic Abuse:
Stop Domestic Abuse is a proud women-led organisation supporting victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse across Portsmouth and Hampshire. Our vision is a world without domestic abuse, and we work to ensure that it’s ‘everyone’s business.’
We provide refuge and community-based support, delivering in a trauma-informed way for adults, children and young people, tailored to individual needs. Our 19 refuges offer safe, welcoming homes, and across our services we provide one-to-one support and group activities to help improve their safety and to meet others with similar experiences. We support children process their experiences and help regain a sense of safety.
Our UP2U programmes support those seeking to change abusive behaviours, and we also offer specialist support for victims of stalking. We also deliver training to professionals, including the hair and beauty industry, to recognise domestic abuse and connect people to specialist support services.
Our Values:
Equality, Openness, Honesty, Respect for individual dignity and diversity, Empowering women and children, and Care and Compassion – are at the heart of everything we do. By committing to these values, we aim to significantly improve the lives of those we support and work towards our vision of a world without domestic abuse.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.