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Head of Change, Children’s Services
Reports to: Assistant Director for Change – Children’s Services, Neighbourhoods & the Youth Sector
Salary: £67,900
Contract: 2 year fixed-term – potential to extend. Open to 0.8 FTE for the right candidate
Location: Central London, Hybrid*
Closing date: 24th September 2025, 12:00 pm
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
The Head of Change, Children’s Services, will:
- Build demand and interest in evidence across the Children’s Services sector, this will include, running events, speaking at conferences and curating webinars to bring evidence to life for practitioners.
- Have great relationships with the people who can make change happen. This will include developing great relationships with senior policy makers, sector leaders and experts, including representing YEF in external meetings and speaking at events.
- Manage a Strategic Advisory Board of leading experts across the children’s services sector and keep members onside and excited about our work.
To Apply
To apply, please send a CV, your answers to the three questions below and complete the monitoring form by clicking on “Apply here” button by 12pm on Wednesday 24th September 2025. Please see the full job description for the application questions.
Assistant Director of Public Affairs and Partnerships
Reports to: Director of Change, with significant engagement with Director of Public Affairs & Communications and CEO
Salary: £75,500 per annum
Contract: 2 year fixed-term – potential to extend. Open to 0.8 FTE for the right candidate
Location: Central London, Hybrid*
Closing date: 26th September 2025, 12:00 pm
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
The Assistant Director of Public Affairs and Partnerships will:
- Ensure we are ready for the future: Born with a ten-year endowment, the YEF has become the leading authoritative voice on how to reduce violence affecting children. We must spend down this endowment by April 2029, so need to start thinking about after this date. You will lead on ensuring we have a great plan for post 2029. You will spot the best opportunities, assess them and, over time, take them.
- Build and maintain great relationships across government: We have an increasingly large number of relationships across government – providing advice and support on what works to prevent violence. You will be ready to offer advice to colleagues on those relationships where needed.
- Bring order and clarity to a big project that involves lots of people. You are at home bringing order to a big project: working out who is going to do what by when, having a regular steering group to ensure progress, keeping everyone on side and delivering a great result at the end.
To Apply
To apply, please send a CV and cover letter, and complete the monitoring form click on “Apply here” button by Friday 26th September 2025.
When applying for this role, please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 1000 words the 3 application questions on the job description, please view the full JD for these questions.