Careers
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Change Lead for Youth Justice
Reports to: Head of Change for Policing and Youth Justice
Salary: £53,000 – £65,000 per annum, depending on experience
Location: Central London or Hybrid*(see below)
Contract: (2-year fixed term – potential to extend)
Closing date for applications: 9:00am Monday 27th January 2025
Interview dates: week commencing 3rd and 10th February
The wide salary range reflects our flexibility to tailor the role to the right candidate’s experience, with the exact responsibilities and leadership level decided during the interview process.
We’re here to prevent children from becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to change things. We need to inspire and connect with youth justice services across England and Wales to spread what works and make our country safer for some of our most vulnerable children. We are looking for someone to lead on making this happen.
We are making good progress building the evidence of what works within and around youth justice to reduce violence, with new Practice Guidance and implementation resources due next year on diversion, mentoring and sports programmes. But the big risk is that we publish these resources and nothing changes. That’s where you come in!
Key responsibilities include:
Working out the best way to make this change happen by getting more senior leaders within youth justice to use our Guidance, toolkit, research and implementation tools to inform day to day operations and strategic decision making.
Creating practical tools and resources that help leaders put evidence into action.
Supporting the scoping and commissioning of behavioural insights research to support effective evidence mobilisation plans and strategies.
About you:
You understand the youth justice sector. You really understand how youth justice services work, from Heads of Services to frontline officers. You have experience working in/with youth justice, ideally in a role that worked with young people who are vulnerable to or involved in violence. You might have previous experience of supporting a youth justice to reflect on and adopt evidence-based practice.
You are fascinated about change and are experienced in making it happen. You have outstanding analytical judgment alongside the emotional intelligence and experience needed to identify the right opportunities for change, then make them happen. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do.
Change Lead for Policing
Reports to: Head of Change for Policing and Youth Justice
Salary: £53,000 – £65,000 per annum, depending on experience
Location: Central London or Hybrid*(see below)
Contract: (2-year fixed term – potential to extend)
Closing date for applications: 9:00am Monday 27th January 2025
Interview dates: week commencing 3rd and 10th February
The wide salary range reflects our flexibility to tailor the role to the right candidate’s experience, with the exact responsibilities and leadership level decided during the interview process.
We’re here to prevent children from becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to change things. We need to inspire and connect with youth justice services across England and Wales to spread what works and make our country safer for some of our most vulnerable children. We are looking for someone to lead on making this happen.
We are making good progress building the evidence of what works within and around youth justice to reduce violence, with new Practice Guidance and implementation resources due next year on diversion and focused deterrence. But the big risk is that we publish these resources and nothing changes. That’s where you come in!
Key responsibilities include:
Working out the best way to make this change happen by getting more senior leaders within policing to use our Guidance, toolkit, research and implementation tools to inform day to day operations and strategic decision making.
Developing great relationships with senior leaders and frontline police officers, generating a strong understanding of key policing issues, needs and behaviours, and building credibility and trust with the sector.
Supporting the scoping and commissioning of behavioural insights research to support effective evidence mobilisation plans and strategies.
About you:
You understand the policing sector. You really understand how police forces’ work, from Chief Constables to frontline officers. You have experience working in/with police, ideally in a role that worked with young people who are vulnerable to or involved in violence. You might have previous experience of supporting a police force to reflect on and adopt evidence-based practice.
You are fascinated about change and are experienced in making it happen. You have outstanding analytical judgment alongside the emotional intelligence and experience needed to identify the right opportunities for change, then make them happen. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do.
Assistant Director – Finance and Planning
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Salary: £75,000 – £79,000
Location: Central London or Hybrid*(see below)
Contract: (2-year fixed term – potential to extend)
Closing date for applications: 9:00am Monday 3rd February 2025
Interview dates: week commencing 10th February 2025
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We have c.£145m committed now to projects that are already underway and aim to commit and spend another c.£80m by 2029. It really matters that this money is spent effectively: every project we complete gives us more information on what works to prevent violence affecting young people. We’re looking for a new Assistant Director for Finance and Planning who will be accountable for the financial planning to ensure this money is spent well and implementing processes to ensure we get full value from the endowment.
Key responsibilities
Your job is to ensure that every pound of our funding is spent effectively. You are accountable for our financial planning and management, and effective commissioning of c.£30m-£40m of external projects annually. Your main responsibilities will be ensuring that:
- We manage our finances excellently.
- When other organisations do work with us, we procure and contract for it really well.
- We fulfil our legal responsibilities.
- We make decisions based on the right information.
- We lead the organisation excellently.
About you
- You’re confident and competent at overseeing finance. You have had previous responsibility for financial management within an organisation.
- You create simple processes and communicate them very well. You’re a structured thinker, able to develop proportionate and user-friendly processes across a range of domains.
- You love data – and love making it seem simple. You can extract and analyse data and present this in a way that is easily understood.