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Job title: Campaigns and Influencing Manager
Reporting to: Deputy CEO
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Contract: Full-time, permanent. We are open to discussing flexible or part-time working.
Location: Hybrid working, with 2-3 days in the office, Shoreditch, London E2
About the Employer
This organisation are bold, ambitious feminists, living in a world where women and girls at the sharpest edge of adversity are consistently overlooked and harmed. Too many women and girls are hurt; too many lives are damaged; too much potential is lost.
They are a social movement, campaigning with courage and in solidarity with their Alliance members and women and girls, so that they can thrive. They advocate and campaign for systems and services to respond appropriately to women and girls with multiple unmet needs.
They want public services to respond better to the distinct and multiple unmet needs of women and girls, including appropriately responding to gender, age, race and trauma. For the whole system to respond better, they stand in solidarity with the voluntary sector and advocate for them to be empowered.
Their values are their guiding principles for their work to deliver their mission. It is who they are and how they behave. They promise to be: Intersectional, Courageous, Credible, Clear, Collaborative.
About the Role
The Campaigns and Influencing Manager will develop and drive forward this organisation’s campaigns and influencing plans to improve systems and services for women and girls with unmet needs.
This role would support a collaborative, proactive and enthusiastic person, keen to work closely with the team, Alliance members, and women and girls with lived experience of the areas this organisation works on, to share their messages and bring about positive social change.
This is an exciting and varied role, providing the right candidate with the opportunity to bring together campaigning, policy influencing, convening and co-production, as well as the chance to develop and manage others. The postholder will look across all evidence and projects to consider and implement the most impactful routes to influence.
Key responsibility areas
- Developing and holding this organisation’s campaigns and influencing plans, aimed at improving systems and services for women and girls with unmet needs, drawing on a range of tactics and approaches.
- Overseeing the delivery of existing funded projects and influencing goals, including around young women and racial disproportionality in the justice system, girls at risk of school exclusion, mental health and racism in public services.
- Coordinating the team to draw together the organisation's research, communications, policy and insights to develop key messages, and ways of using these to target and influence key audiences.
- Indentifying key points of influence and leverage across a range of areas, nationally and locally - developing approaches and relationships with key actors which will have maximum impact for bringing about change.
About You
- Strategic thinker with the ability to develop and implement long-term plans and solutions.
- Commitment to inclusive and intersectional feminism, social justice and anti-racism, and an understanding of how forms of oppression, life experiences and complex broken systems interact to cause harm.
- Commitment to collaboration, deep-listening, power-sharing and working with a range of partners to achieve shared goals.
- Very organised and excellent at managing time, projects and people.
- An interest in contributing to a culture of continuous learning and the professional development of others.
- Enthusiastic, proactive and resourceful with a can-do attitude and a strong team player.
- Commitment to the employer’s vision, and values.
They are looking for somebody who can bring with them:
- Success in bringing about Change
- Developing influencing Strategies
- People and Relationship-Building
- Budgeting, Fundraising and Reporting
They are less interested in your qualifications, and more interested in your values, background and both lived and learned experience.
They are actively trying to diversify their team, so if you are from the Black, Asian and minoritised communities, identify as LGBTQ+, have a disability, and/or bring lived experience relevant to the areas this Alliance works in, they would love to hear from you.
What they can offer
Benefits: Access to a defined contribution pension and 25 days annual leave per year (pro rata) + three working days between Christmas and New Year.
What is it like to work there?
- Wellbeing is a priority, with a flexible working and 'duvet days'
- Team brunches!
- Highly-supportive work environment, encouraging learning and respect of lives outside of work
- Working with dedicated, talented women on the team, on the Board and with Alliance members
- Supportive and engaged board of Trustees
- They care deeply about the work and better outcomes for women and girls
- They work on the understanding that women and girls are the experts
- They know how to have fun too!
Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 23 February 2025
First round interviews will be held 10 or 11 March ;
If a final/second round interviews is needed, these will be held w/c 17 March.
Please keep those dates clear - if you apply or let the employer know in your application if there are any dates you cannot do.
How to apply:
Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role.
Please note that although you may be asked by the job board to upload a CV, you are not applying at this stage.
This employer welcomes and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability (physical or learning), gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orieyntation. They will provide reasonable support to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
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