Job Description

To make a real difference in the lives of Children and Young People from a range of communities:

• Engaging stakeholders, partners in practice, and policy leads, in order to support widespread system change and maintain and develop Barnardo\'s reputation as an advocate for children, young people and families.
• Co-ordinating a diverse range of development projects working within a service design and co-production framework. Supporting the co-ordination of learning to co-produce a range of activities and products that will have transformational positive impact on children, young people and families across the Children sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Assistant Director to maintain and develop relationships with key strategic partners, and stakeholders, to increase the Centre\'s reach and scope and to influence best practice in the field.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Director to identify and develop a comprehensive range of practice development and training packages which will skill and equip professionals to address issues affecting African, Asian, and Caribbean heritage CYP (and possibly other groups of CYP) including dissemination events and conferences
• Collaborate with the Assistant Director to lead the policy and comms arms of SEEN and the NFGMC - designing and implementing advocacy strategies to engage and influence local authorities and UK government and parliament to act on specific issues African Asian and Caribbean heritage children and young people face, as well as on longer-term policy change
• Work with the digital lead to share and implement advocacy/campaign strategies - also working with the Assistant Director to produce high quality advocacy tools including briefing papers, talking points & social media posts
• Lead the Centre\'s young peoples consortium
• Be responsible for sharing research, policy, tools and best practice through the online knowledge hub, working with the digital lead. Ensuring it is current, relevant and factually correct, liaising with organisations and keeping abreast of developments in the field both Nationally and Internationally.
• Lead on the co-development of creative and innovative products and guidance, based on programme learning within a service design framework. Work with the Assistant Director to cascade and embed across Barnardo\'s and the wider sector.

Key Activities:

• Ensure regular project meetings and assess the quality of practice and the impact made on children, young people and/or families.
• When appropriate, undertake observation of practice to identify opportunities for learning to enhance the practice of others and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo\'s . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo\'s as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo\'s pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo\'s believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo\'s. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo\'s stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo\'s Learning and Development offer

*T&C\'s apply based on contract

About Barnardo\'s

At Barnardo\'s we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

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