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Head of Change – Health

Reports to: Director of Change

Salary: £67,900 per annum

Location: Central London or remote

Contract: 2-year fixed term – potential to extend. Open to 0.8 FTE for the right candidate

Closing date: Friday 27th June 2025 at 9am

The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent children from becoming involved in violence. We will achieve this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice. A big part of the movement that we need to build is in the world of health. We need to inspire and connect with health leaders across Integrated Care Services (ICBs), Local Health Boards (LHBs), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and other relevant parts of the system. We need 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. 

Your main responsibilities will be ensuring that:

• Developing great relationships with senior policy makers, sector leaders and experts. Additionally, building a Strategic Advisory Board of leading experts across the health sector.
• Helping to identify the right recommendations at a system level (such as changes in policy, regulation, inspection, funding, or guidance) that make it more likely highly vulnerable children get access to the right support at the right time. 
• Connecting health leaders with the evidence, supporting how they plan or provide services to better protect children from violence, based on our guidance.

To Apply

Please click on the “Apply for this” button and submit your CV, your completed monitoring form and cover letter, which must answer the following three questions below. Please submit your application by 9am on Friday 27th June 2025.

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Senior Research Manager, Toolkit Team

Reports to: Head of Toolkit

Salary: £52,700

Contract: Two-year fixed term

Location: Central London, Hybrid*

Closing date: 27th June 2025

The Toolkit team is at the heart of our work to spread knowledge of what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence. We want research to lead actual changes in outcomes for children.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Commission new systematic reviews. You will lead the commissioning and management of systematic reviews of the evidence through our Toolkit and Evidence Synthesis Partners.
• Write accurate and actionable summaries of evidence for the Toolkit. You will use findings from evidence synthesis to write new summaries for the Toolkit, and to inform YEF’s guidance and implementation resources.
• Become an expert on the Toolkit. You will be an advocate for Toolkit evidence, and you will ensure insights from this evidence are accurately communicated to policy makers and practitioners. You will do this by delivering presentations on Toolkit evidence and providing briefings.

To Apply

Please click on the “Apply for this” button and submit your CV, cover letter and complete the monitoring form by 9:00am on 27th June 2025.

When applying for this role, please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 1000 words, the questions within the job advert.

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Programme Manager

Reports to: Programme and Impact Lead 

Salary: £44,200

Contract: 18-month fixed term (Full-Time)

Location: Central London, Hybrid*

Closing date: Monday 14^th July 2025 at 12pm

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. 

Deciding which projects, we should fund and evaluate is key, as is making sure we deliver our funding and evaluations to the highest standards. Our Programme Managers are responsible for identifying, assessing, funding and supporting programmes designed to prevent youth violence. Programme Managers at YEF come from all walks of life. We look for individuals who may have experience in the youth sector, children’s social care, policing, criminal justice, education or how to involve local residents in making decisions about their own neighbourhoods.

As a Programme Manager at YEF, you will work very closely with our evaluation team to make sure we learn from what’s being implemented and that the organisations we fund are prepared and excited to work with us to find what works.

To Apply

To apply, please send a CV, and a cover letter answering the specific questions below, please also complete the monitoring form by clicking the “Apply for this” button by 12pm, Monday 14^th July 2025.

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Research Lead – Local Violence Prevention

Reports to: Head of Guidance and Reporting

Salary: £55,000

Contract: 2 years fixed term (Full-time)

Location: Central London, Hybrid*

Closing date: Week commencing 28^th July 2025

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 Research Lead will lead the development of YEF’s research, resources and recommendations in our neighbourhood focus sector. We focus our efforts on seven essential sectors: education, policing, youth justice, youth sector, children’s services, health, and neighbourhood. “Neighbourhood” refers to our work supporting local partnerships – such as Violence Reduction Units (VRUs), community safety partnerships or the new Prevention Partnerships – and hyper-local approaches like our neighbourhood fund. 

• You’ll set the YEF’s research agenda for your sector. You’ll make sure we invest in research that fills important gaps in knowledge and leads to important changes.
• You’ll lead the research team’s work in our local neighbourhoods and partnerships priority sector.
• You’ll ensure we produce accessible, evidence-based resources and guidance that local partnerships can use to develop more effective strategies.

To Apply

Please click on the “Apply for this” button and submit your CV, cover letter and complete the monitoring form by 12:00pm Tuesday 15^th July 2025. Please review the application questions you will need to submit as part of your application.