Location: National – frequent travel is expected and required
The Children’s Society is a national charity working to transform the hopes and happiness of young people experiencing low wellbeing, who may be facing abuse, exploitation and neglect. We support them through their most serious life challenges, and we campaign tirelessly for the big social changes that will improve the lives of those who need hope most. We've been doing this for 140 years and we won't stop until we've built a society where hope is alive in every child.
The Children’s Society is at an exciting stage of its journey - we’ve got big ambitions for children and would love to hear from you if you share our passion and commitment to reverse the damaging decline in children’s wellbeing.
We are seeking an excellent communicator, and strategic thinker to join our senior leadership team and deliver excellence in our systemic impact functions. Someone who is passionate about influencing government, MPs, policy makers and stakeholders about the issues affecting children and young people in our society. Through strategic leadership and management, this role will ensure the organisation delivers impact for young people, and lead our policy, evidence generation and service design functions. You will be expected to represent the organisation at the highest levels of government, politics, business, the voluntary sector and the media, and will play a crucial role in developing and managing strategic relationships.
This exciting and unique role leads strategic programmes of work which are central to ensuring we have the knowledge and insight about how we can improve the systems that impact on children and young people’s lives, and knowhow of the tools and levers to utilise effect change in those systems – including policy; systems change; research and evaluation, organisational impact measurement and service design. Bringing our systemic change closer to our direct work with young people - informing the work of the wider organisation and actively contributing to strategic funding decision making, our political influencing and policy work, our story telling and youth voice initiatives.
If you have a commitment to youth voice and influence, and a track record in strategic policy and research to create impact - this is a great time to join us and lead a dynamic and committed team to take The Children’s Society work with young people and drive systemic change to the next level and creating even more impact.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture at The Children’s Society. We also appreciate the best leadership teams reflect the communities they serve. We therefore strongly encourage applications from people across all groups that are underrepresented.
The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
This role is full time and can benefit from hybrid working combining working from home/from other TCS bases. Extensive travel will apply.
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