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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with extensive experience representing children to join us as our Child and Youth Participation Manager where you will work within the Politics, Participation and Campaigns Department.

This is an 18 Month Fixed term Contract.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

As Child and Youth Participation Manager, you will play a strategic leadership role in our children's election project which will take place alongside next year's general election. This will involve working in coalition with external partners to deliver a project that gives children a meaningful opportunity to express their opinions and develop their citizenship and political understanding. The successful candidate will draw on their experience working with young people and youth organisations to ensure the project remains true to its child rights' objectives, and will work with key internal teams including legal, media, fundraising and risk to seek project funding from new and existing sources, manage risk and compliance processes and maintain internal buy in for the project.

In this role, you will:

• Play a leading role in setting the direction of one or more of the team's projects with children such as the children's parallel election project, Youth Advisory Board, managing external partners, schools and young campaigner networks
• Make a significant contribution to the development and delivery of the child and youth participation strategy
• Support and advise colleagues in the Child and Youth Participation team to deliver on shared projects and priorities
• Lead the team's involvement in relevant external coalitions and maintain positive working relationships with organisations across the youth sector
• Manage key relationships with internal teams including campaigning, advocacy, media, fundraising and support and compliance teams

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Significant experience working with diverse groups of young people (in a professional or voluntary role) and a track record of engaging them with change making through campaigning, fundraising, programmes, governance or education
• Breadth of experience developing and designing projects, campaigns and activities for children and young people
• Experience working with networks of external partners to deliver shared goals including relationship management and managing conflicting priorities
• Ability to manage complex projects and meet deadlines when working under pressure across a range of priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to tailor written and verbal communications to a wide range of different audiences, particularly young people

• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing date: Sunday 10th September

Please note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]