Location: Office base Islington travel, will be required across North and Central London boroughs including Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Barnet, Enfield, Camden, Haringey, and Islington

Salary:
Qualified applicants (with an accredited VAWG /ISVA qualification) dependent on experience:  27k-29k per annum. 
Unqualified applicants, dependent on experience: £26k-£27k per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: permanent 
Vacancy Reference: SWA3064

Closing Date: 16th April 2021
Interview Date: 23rd April 2021

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men, and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

North London Rape Crisis offers range of services to women age 13 + who are experiencing or have experienced any form of sexual violence in their lives. We offer a safe and non-judgmental space to women living, working, or studying across London boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet, and Enfield. 
Our expert team provides helpline support, advocacy (ISVA) support including specialised ISVAS for women with complex needs. We also provide one to one and group counselling to survivors as well as short term one to one counselling support to survivor’s family and friends. It is an inclusive service and support all ages, disabilities, sexualities, gender identities including non-binary, ethnicities, and religions. 
The service will be open 9.00am to 5.00 pm however, appointments can be arranged outside of these if required.   

About the Role

The role of Young Women Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) is with the Rape Crisis service in North London. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide a pro-active crisis intervention and ongoing support service to young women (13-21) survivors of sexual violence including recent and non-recent rape and within and outside of the criminal justice system. 
Preference will be given to an accredited Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA)

About You

The ideal candidate will have completed ISVA training and have experience of supporting women affected by sexual violence. You will have a clear understanding of the effects of and issues facing young women who have experienced sexual violence, as well as understanding of the Criminal Justice System. You will be able to communicate with people from a range of backgrounds and create good working relationship with service users as well as partner agencies. 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants from black minority and ethnic communities.

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,500 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.

Refuge’s Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline, is a national service for women experiencing domestic violence, their family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf. The Helpline is staffed 24 hours a day by fully trained female helpline support advisers and volunteers to give support, help and information.

We are recruiting National Domestic Abuse Helpline Advisers to provide support and information to women experiencing domestic violence and other forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG), family and friends supporting them, and associated professionals, by providing, trauma-informed emotional support and practical help, led by the caller’s needs.

You will participate in answering helpline calls on a 24 hour rota system, assessing each call individually to ensure the highest standards of support. You will be involved in making referrals to women’s refuges and other agencies where appropriate, and complete reporting and evaluation data for the service.

You will have an awareness of domestic violence issues, together with the ability to assess the needs of callers to the helpline. In addition you will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with a non-judgmental and confidential approach to supporting women. You will be well organised and have a demonstrable ability to use Microsoft Office. The ability to remain calm and resilient is essential, as is an up-to-date knowledge of housing, criminal, civil and welfare rights legislation relating to domestic violence.

Competitive salary offering annual progression within points of the salary grade, 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, pension scheme with People’s pension that includes a 6% Employer contribution, comprehensive EAP.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpin all of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to work within Refuge’s Values and Behaviour Framework and demonstrate these in their everyday work 

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We offer the first Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) accredited qualification for our profession. 

As an ever expanding charity we are also able to provide career development opportunities including advancements into management roles across our range of services. 

Closing date - 11:59pm Sunday 02 May 2021

Interview date - TBC

Contract type - Fixed term contract

Contract end date - 31 March 2022

 An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

 This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpins all of our work. 

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.

Special notes:

1. While our preference is for applicants to be able to work 37.5 hours a week, we are happy to also accept applications from candidates who are available to work 22.5 or 30 hours a week. Please note however, due to the rota pattern in place applicants must be prepared to work on a 24 hour rota across all days of the week, weekend, evenings and nights. We are unable to agree to applicants only working certain hours and days of the week.

2. The helpline adviser role is currently home based. However with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions successful applicants will be expected to work from our head office at Tower Hill, London in the near future. 

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,000 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.

We are recruiting for a skilled domestic violence advocate to provide high quality advocacy and support to survivors of domestic violence. You will work in partnership with other agencies to develop and deliver risk management plans to ensure victims’ safety. You will be responsible for advocating on behalf of survivors of domestic violence in a range of settings and managing and reviewing your cases.

The successful candidate will have significant proven experience of providing emotional and practical support to survivors of domestic violence. You will understand the legal system in how it relates to survivors of domestic violence and have strong communication skills to deliver presentations and reports to stakeholders effectively. An ability to work independently and prioritise a busy workload is essential.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality which underpin all of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to work within Refuge’s Values and Behaviour Framework and demonstrate these in their everyday work.

Competitive salary offering annual progression within points of the salary grade, 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, pension scheme with People’s pension that includes a 6% Employer contribution, comprehensive EAP.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We offer the first Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) accredited qualification for our profession. 

Please visit Refuge’s website for further details and other opportunities.

Closing Date: 3rd May 2021

Interview Date: 14th May 2021

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.

This role will initially be on a remote-working basis, changing to office-based (in Hammersmith and Fulham and involving travel across London) when circumstances allow and as required by WGN’s services.

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is looking for an experienced and dynamic practitioner to lead on developing a comprehensive community development and outreach strategy for our Rape Crisis Service.

This exciting role will develop relationships with local communities with an aim to raise awareness about sexual violence and workshops / groupwork and improve access to services.

The Community Development Worker will also play a pivotal role in engaging with survivors as Experts by Experience, supporting them to shape and develop sexual violence policy and practice within WGN and externally. The successful post holder will be responsible for delivering training and support to professionals across sectors to promote best practice interventions.

This is a fast-paced role, delivered through an intersectional feminist framework, offering a unique opportunity for a highly skilled, dynamic practitioner to play a central role in leading, developing and shaping an effective outreach and community development strategy, to improve responses, access and support for survivors of sexual violence.

WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme.

This role is funded by NHS England and MOPAC.

For further information and to download an Application Pack please visit our website

Completed applications should be emailed to Human Resources

The closing date for application is 10am on Thursday 6th May 2021. 

Interviews to be held on: Wednesday 19th May 2021.

If you do not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks of the closing date you can unfortunately assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

This post is subject to satisfactory references and a DBS check.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer.

The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1

NAZ is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to take up the role of Women’s Sexual Health Engagement Coordinator; Black African and African-Caribbean Communities.

Your role will be supporting black African and African-Caribbean women across Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham to better understand their reproductive health options, promote their sexual health and wellbeing and understand their rights in clinical settings across the NHS and primary care.

You will be delivering workshops to target groups and delivering training sessions to professionals who work with those groups, as well as conducting outreach and providing referral to clients.

The role is normally based in NAZ’s office in Hammersmith, London with frequent travel to Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham boroughs; though working from home at present.

Due to our delivery of engagement to female black African and African-Caribbean service users, this post is only open to females who have black African or African-Caribbean ethnicity (or multiple heritage including this ethnicity).

Other job roles at NAZ

Please note that you may apply for both this role and our HIV Peer Mentor Caseworker role – these may potentially be combined into one full-time role.

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence.

We aim to ensure that we are proactive in developing specialist services that meet the needs of all the women and girls who access our services. We seek Specialist Counsellors who will thrive in a multi-cultural feminist environment. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience of working with one or more of the following:

• Women and girls from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) communities - ensuring that issues related to diversity and identity are effectively understood and sensitively worked with.
• Women and girls who have experienced harmful practices.
• Women and girls with learning disabilities.
• Creative solutions in working with survivors of gender-based violence that are affected by problematic substance use and mental ill health. 
• And / or from applicants who speak various community languages.

Applicants must be BACP, UKCP or HCPC accredited (or eligible) and have experience of providing a range of counselling interventions for women who have experienced gender-based violence. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies. Facilitating recovery and responding to a diverse client group with multiple cultural identities.

We will be offering a minimum of 14 hours a week which will be dependent on the skills set of the successful candidates.

WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme. We also offer excellent training and development opportunities and successful candidates will receive regular individual supervision as well as an on-going CPD programme in a supportive multi-cultural feminist organisation.

Please visit our website to download an application pack. Completed applications should be emailed to Human Resources

Applications deadline: 10am on Wednesday 19th May 2021.

Interviews: Due to be held via Zoom on Tuesday 1st June 2021. 

Applicants who are successful at interview will be required to attend 5 days of WGN Induction training – due to be held on 8th, 9th, 17th and 18th June 2021 (with fifth date to be confirmed).

Please note: Applicants who have not received a response to their application within 2 weeks of the closing date should assume their application has not been successful on this occasion.

These posts are subject to satisfactory references and a DBS Check.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer.

The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 and Part 1

We have an exciting opportunity for a role based within our London MARAC Team, that requires knowledge and experience working within the domestic abuse sector, as well as strong administrative, interpersonal and stakeholder liaison skills.

 Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences are regular meetings where information is shared by a variety of key organisations both statutory and non-statutory on the highest risk domestic abuse cases in order to create safety/ action plans that help reduce and manage risk to victim/ survivors.

This position will require you to work closely with the MARAC Team Manager, MARAC Team, MARAC Chair and partner agencies to ensure referral thresholds are met, meetings are well organised, effectively coordinated, and accurate recordings of the meetings are taken and distributed following planned delivery requirements.

We are looking for a highly organised individual with the passion to make a difference, you will need proficient I.T. skills particularly in Word, Excel and case recording database systems.

We welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates.

Are you an organised and motivated self-starter who wants to make a difference for survivors of domestic abuse?  As a partner in the award-winning Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) project, Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) are looking to appoint a passionate individual to join our team as a DAHA Project Officer on a full time basis who will work on a secondment to VIVID Homes for 28 hours per week, supporting their work to acquire DAHA accreditation. The remaining 7 hours will support the DAHA team’s main activities, including accreditation, membership support and training deliveries.

STADA facilitates the ground breaking Coordinated Community Response (CCR) to domestic abuse in West London. STADA are DAHA co-founders, alongside Peabody and Gentoo, which was founded in 2014 to promote better practice, policy and research in relation to housing and domestic abuse.

The ideal post holder will have strong organisation, project management and influencing skills. They will have knowledge and experience of housing policy and practice in relation to domestic abuse and for removing the barriers to accessing safe and stable housing.

Citizens Advice Hounslow is a well-established charity operating in the London Borough of Hounslow. Thanks to our amazing team of staff and volunteers, we support over 8,000 clients a year through our face to face, phone and digital services.

We are seeking to appoint a Welfare Benefits Caseworker to meet the ever-growing demand on our service in these challenging times to deliver welfare benefits advice to our clients. We are currently delivering all our services remotely until it is possible to resume face to face work in accordance to social distancing rules and safety measures.

As a Welfare Benefits Caseworker, your will:

• provide high quality advice and practical help to clients on welfare benefits issues.
• check entitlement, ensure awards are correct and challenge incorrect decisions
• progress casework through negotiations with the relevant benefits offices and agencies
• prepare appeal submissions for clients and, where required, represent clients at relevant tribunals and review boards
• keep accurate case records and ensure that all casework is recorded and reported in accordance with Citizens Advice Hounslow’s policies and practices.
• ensure that effective case management is maintained throughout.

For more information about the role please download the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Closing date:  On-going
Interview date: TBC

Please note: we are unable to respond to applicants who have not been shortlisted. We reserve the right to close this vacancy as soon it has been filled, therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, pension contribution, and training and opportunities to continue your professional development.

We consider applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

We are looking for a colleague to provide the research aspect of our campaigns on fair pay, analysing data on gender pay and bonus gaps, equal pay, CEO pay ratios and the wider issue of income inequalities. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that our data is accurate, updating our data dashboards,  About Inequality and coordinating our academic network.

Working under the guidance of the Executive Director, the Senior Research Officer (Income Inequalities) will be an integral part of our small busy team,  leading primary and secondary research, liaising with academics and policymakers in the field, as well as our local groups and supporters. We are looking for someone who feels comfortable engaging with a variety of stakeholders and supporting the team with research needs for campaigns, reports, media enquiries and events. The successful candidate will be able to work autonomously and consistently meet deadlines. They will be able to work within a small team, have an interest in, or knowledge of, social and economic inequalities, be confident analysing data sets, using statistical analysis and contributing to the comms and campaigning work of the organisation.

About The Equality Trust

The Equality Trust (TET) is the national charity that campaigns to reduce social and economic inequality to improve the quality of life in the UK. We are at the forefront of debates to tackle structural inequalities as well as supporting local grassroots groups to bring about change in their areas.

About the job

• Compiling, analysing and disseminating robust and up-to-date information and data sets on economic and social inequalities (including COVID 19 impacts, trends, drivers, attitudes and solutions) and curating the About Inequality section of our website and updating data dashboards. 

• Proactively monitoring relevant trends, progress and developments relating to inequality to keep expertise up-to-date within the team.

• Identifying and liaising with academics and experts with both learned and lived experience.

• Drafting reports and providing research for media and campaigning work and briefings.

• Assessing and advising on relevant external debates and proposals.

• Managing/commissioning and/or contributing to the production of research.

• Supporting the development of evidence-based policies.

• Writing and/or managing the writing of reports and articles. 

• Identifying, interpreting and/or analysing relevant information and data from FTSE company reports, LIS, ONS, academics, think tanks, NGOs, etc. 

• Monitoring and analysing the output of policymakers and other key influencers. 

• Responding to requests for data from the media, policymakers, Equality Trust supporters and local groups.

About you

Experience (essential)

• Experience of carrying out qualitative and quantitative research including research design, data collection, data analysis and presentation of data. 

• Experience of commissioning research. 

• Experience of communicating written information persuasively, constructively and in a manner suitable to a wide range of specialist and non-specialist audiences.

• Experience of engaging with a variety of stakeholders, including media, civil servants, NGOs, academics, etc. 

• Experience of compiling and summarising large amounts of disparate information. 

• Experience of analysing and interpreting large data sets.

• Experience of working with data to produce reports, update websites and briefings.

• Experience of organising roundtable events and webinars. 

Abilities and skills

• Knowledge of or interest in economics (macro or labour), business and finance and/or drivers of economic inequality.

• Ability to monitor and assess the output of FTSE businesses in company reports, academics, government, political parties, think-tanks and/or NGOs.

• Familiarity with the key current political, economic and/or social debates on inequalities and intersectionality in the UK. 

• Ability and willingness to work as part of a small team.

• Ability to plan and manage projects.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with meticulous attention to detail.

• Flexible and adaptable; able to produce high-quality work, sometimes at short notice.

• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude 

• IT literacy, including the ability to update websites and proficiency in the use of Excel. 

• Proactive with initiative, actively seeking information from internal or external sources as required 

• Good interpersonal skills, ability to persuade, influence and collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders, sensitive to their communications needs. 

• Deadline driven, able to remain calm in the face of several simultaneous deadlines.

• Willingness and ability to work flexible hours when needed for which TOIL will be given. 

• Commitment to the aims and values of The Equality Trust.

We recognise that the successful candidate may not have experience of all of the skills above and so we are willing to support training in areas that candidates wish to develop.

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,000 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.

This role requires an exceptional individual who wants to make a difference. As a Refuge Worker, you will be responsible for providing high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic violence and their children living in our refuges.

You will ensure the smooth running of the refuge, including the admission of survivors of domestic violence to the refuge. You will also assess and advise on their entitlement to welfare and housing benefits and housing management. You will develop support plans for each resident and aid them to obtain permanent accommodation.

The successful candidate will have evidence of strong casework management skills, good written and verbal communication, and an understanding of the importance of maintaining professional boundaries. You will be required to bring safeguarding children or vulnerable adults to the immediate attention of the service manager, or if unavailable another manager. Direct experience of providing support to women is essential as is a current understanding of legislation relating to domestic violence including civil/criminal legislation and welfare rights. The ability to work as part of an on-call rota is essential and occasional evening work in emergency situations.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality which underpin all of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to work within Refuge’s Values and Behaviour Framework and demonstrate these in their everyday work.

Competitive salary offering annual progression within points of the salary grade, 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, pension scheme with People’s pension that includes a 6% Employer contribution, comprehensive EAP.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We offer the first Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) accredited qualification for our profession. 

Please visit Refuge’s website for further details and other opportunities.

Closing Date: 28th April 2021

Interview Date: 7th May 2021

This is a full time permanent contract at 37.5 hours per week.

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.

The Youth Endowment Fund  

Head of Evaluation and Partnerships (Targeted Projects) 

Reports to:  Director of Impact

Salary:  £60,000 

Location: Central London 

About the Youth Endowment Fund 

The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent young people and children from becoming involved in violence.  

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them. 

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. Many organisations have this calling. Our unique role is to identify what works best and spread the good news. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas. 

At the heart of this is cutting-edge evaluation. Our mission is to find what works and then build a movement to put this into practice. That means that we are building a team that includes people who are brilliant evaluators and people who are brilliant at winning people over. In this role, we are looking for someone who is brilliant at both. This makes this a unique role – perfect for the right person. 

We’ll fund great initiatives in three ways: 

• Theme rounds. We’ll focus much of our funding on a series of themed rounds, one or two at any one time. 

• Place-based. We’ll focus on specific areas where violent crime is high. We’ll build partnerships with local people and organisations through our Neighbourhood Fund to create and test approaches aimed at addressing local challenges. And we’ll help local agencies to share power and information, through a dedicated Agency Collaboration Fund. 

• Targeted projects. If we identify programmes that don’t fit into the themed rounds or place-based funding but are widely used or promising with the potential to scale, we will provide the resources to fund, evaluate and learn from them. 

You will lead on our targeted projects work. This is likely to involve the design and delivery of strategically important and/or large-scale and innovative projects working with key partners and government. We estimate projects in this pipeline will be worth at least c.£10m a year. 

Key responsibilities 

You will be responsible for overseeing our targeted projects programme to identify and scale interventions and approaches that could make a significant dent in the problem of youth violence. You will have two main areas of responsibility: 

1. Designing, commissioning and managing complex and rigorous impact evaluations with experts in the field. You will:

• Make sure we maximise what we can learn from all targeted projects.

• Lead the design and delivery of our targeted projects evaluation work to ensure it produces quality learning about what works to prevent youth violence, including:

• Tendering evaluations;

• Assessing the feasibility, technical quality and deliverability of applications; 

• Make expert recommendations on which opportunities we pursue.

• Making appointments;

• Providing ongoing monitoring and quality assurance;

• Ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest quality. 

• Overseeing the publication of all reports. 

• Work with our wider evaluation team to ensure the approach is consistent with YEF’s overall evaluation strategy.

• Attend leadership meetings and governance meetings, making sure we make the best decisions as a Fund. 

• Make sure the evidence we produce is communicated in a clear and accessible way which will drive sustainable change. This is critical to everything we do at the Youth Endowment Fund.  

1. Identifying, building and managing great partnerships. You will:  

• Identify programmes or approaches that are either common and widely used to prevent children becoming involved in violence, or which are promising with the potential to scale.

• Build and nurture strong relationships with the organisations developing and delivering these programmes and approaches across England and Wales, making sure they are ready to apply for our funding. 

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with which give us the greatest opportunity to learn and make change happen whilst maximising match funding.

• Provide ongoing management and support to funded partners and evaluators, ensuring targeted projects are delivered to the highest standards and generate valuable evidence. 

• Support YEF’s supplementary funding targets by ensuring targeted projects brings in at least £6M a year in match funding.

About you 

You are this sort of person: 

• You are committed to tackling youth crime:You are passionate about the impact prevention and early intervention has. You don't want your days to pass without making a difference.

• You are experienced in evaluation and research: You have at least 5 years’ experience working in a senior research and evidence role in a related sector and a strong knowledge and technical expertise in evaluation methodologies. This includes the ability to critically appraise the design of more than one area of evaluation (e.g. randomised control trials, quasi experimental designs, evaluations of public health approaches, evaluations of complex multi-component evaluations, etc).You have significant experience of carrying out or commissioning large scale research and evaluation and have experience carrying out applied research methods including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. 

• You have a post-graduate (Masters or PhD) qualification. This is in a relevant field such social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant quantitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to a Masters qualification. 
   

• You are experienced in building partnerships. You have significant experience in building partnerships and can show how these have been effective in delivering change. Ideally these partnerships will have involved securing funding, either through cash or in kind support.

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.

• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player. 

• You are happy to help out where needed:You understand that working in a new organisation, leading on a new piece of work, sometimes means helping out with wherever it is needed.

• You really know what makes great research and quality evidence:  You can design and draft high-quality research proposals including the sample, measurement and analysis. You are confident in assessing the quality of evidence that underpins interventions and can guide decisions on grant applications.

• You are an excellent communicator:  You can produce technical documents that accurately report methodological and statistical information. You will combine this with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible format to non-experts. 

• You are responsible, motivated and thrive in a fast-paced environment:  You take personal responsibility for critical decisions and have experience working in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment. You are extremely motivated and have a track record of delivery highly technical research and evidence work on time, on budget and to a high quality. 
   

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values. 

You may have, but they are not essential: 
 

• Good knowledge and understanding of crime, serious violence or other relevant areas: This could include areas such as child development, parenting or children’s mental health from fields such as psychology, neuroscience or education research. You know the facts, the risk and protective factors that impact youth criminality, understand the issues, know the key people and can discuss the theories. You are knowledgeable on this topic and very at ease discussing it with experts.  

• Great quantitative analysis skills: This includes experience of using advanced analytical software such as R, Stata or SPSS. Experience of using this software in the context of quasi-experimental evaluations would also be an advantage.

• Knowledge and experience of evidence synthesis: You know the different approaches and have carried out your own evidence synthesis projects.

• An understanding of the public policy and delivery context of youth crime and early intervention 

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence. 

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. 

To apply 

To apply, please send a CV, cover letter and the monitoring form through our application page by 25th April 2021.  

Please ensure your cover letter explains your motivation for applying for the role and how you meeting the essential and desirable criteria

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage. Interviews are due to take place in mid to late May.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.