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This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the engagement (voice and influence) of young people within a new programme focussed on misogyny among young people.

About the Tackling Misogyny Programme

Misogyny is one of the driving forces behind harm to women and girls – and it's harming boys and men too. The growing prevalence of misogynistic content online is normalising the sexual harassment of girls (on and offline), and distorting children and young people's understanding of healthy relationships. Tackling this is key to keeping children safe and preventing harm, including sexual abuse.

We want to work alongside children and young people to help counter dangerous narratives about misogyny. Despite all the focus on this issue, young people's voices are too often missing from the debate,and if it's just adults talking to adults then we won't make the progress we know we need.

Our programme will:

Build a group of children and young people (boys as well as girls)who want to drive change.
Develop the external partnerships and political relationships we need to influence decision making.
Influence change to law and policy that will help keep children andyoung people safer and healthier.
Help influence attitudes to spearhead a movement against misogyny amongst young people.
Capture the insight from children and young people to inform and upskill our own services and others.

Reporting into the Voice and Influence Team, this role will:

Lead on, coordinate and facilitate the children and young people's voice and influence, and overall engagement, in the development, delivery and evaluation of one or more of our signature programmes.
Support, inform and guide policy and public affairs, communications and fundraising colleagues to amplify the voice and influence of children and young people within the signature programme/s.
Record and report relevant data (quantitative and qualitative) to evidence the outputs, outcomes and impact of children and young people's engagement within the signature programme/s.
Demonstrate a commitment to personal development and learning, ensuring all voice and influence practice is informed by best practice and evidence.
Proactively promote, champion and advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and anti-racism in all aspects of the role.

Essential criteria - we're particularly looking for someone who has:

Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating strategic voice and influence activities with children and/or young people.
Sound knowledge of safeguarding and trauma-informed principles and processes, and their application.
At least five years' experience in a role working directly with children and/or young people in a health, social care, education or youth work setting.
Understanding, knowledge and experience of - or working within services around - healthy relationships, harmful sexual behaviour and/or child sexual abuse.
Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate projects, collaboratively and effectively.
Excellent collaboration, networking and partnership-working skills.

This role will report to a Strategic V&I Lead (Service/Senior Manager level) in our central V&I Team. For enquiries, please email VoiceAndInfluence@barnardos.org.uk.

Please note, this role is home-based (anywhere in the UK), but will be expected to undertake regular travel and so proximity to a national rail station is considered essential.

The salary for this role is between £31,512.00 - £33,463.00 (Full Time Equivalent) and is non-negotiable. Other salaries are shown so that applicants are aware of the progression salaries.

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.

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.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
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

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do.

We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women.

We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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