Careers

Grants and Evaluation Committee Member

Salary: This is a voluntary/unpaid role with travel expenses covered

Location: Remote

Contract: 3-Year Term

Application closing: Midday (12pm) on Wednesday 21 May.

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. 

We do this by finding, funding and rigorously evaluating interventions across England and Wales. At the heart of this work is our Grants and Evaluation Committee. This Committee is responsible for reviewing all new evaluations proposed by the YEF executive team and choosing whether to recommend these grants to the YEF Committee (YEF’s governing board). Its role is to assess whether the interventions proposed can be evaluated to answer important research questions.

We would be interested to hear from you if you have experience of: 

• Our work motivates you. You want to commit time to reducing the level of youth violence and you care about evidence. It matters to you that we make evidence-based decisions and that our fundamental goal is to find what works and build a movement to put this knowledge into action.
• You have an understanding of grant-making. You have a good sense of how charities or public sector organisations operate and how they approach grant funding. You also have a good sense of the challenges these organisations face in delivering to young people and adopting evidence-led approaches.
• You have an understanding of or experience working within one of our key sectors, such as youth work, policing, education, health or criminal justice.

To Apply – please send a CV, cover letter to recruitment@youthendowmentfund.org.uk by Midday on Wednesday 21 May.

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Change Lead for Policing

Reports to: Assistant Director of Change for Policing and Youth Justice

Salary: £55,000 per annum

Location: Central London or Hybrid*(see below)

Contract: 2-year fixed term (potential to extend) or secondment opportunity

Closing date for applications: 9:00am Friday 23rd May 2025

Interview dates: week commencing 2nd June 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.

We are making good progress building the evidence of what works within and around policing to reduce violence, with new Practice Guidance and implementation resources on diversion and focused deterrence. But the big risk is that we publish guidance and nothing changes. That’s where you come in. Your role is to work 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. This will involve:

• 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.
• Developing, managing and tracking the change plan to get more senior leaders to be aware of and use our Guidance, tools and resources, continuously looking for data-driven improvements.
• Creating practical tools and resources that help leaders put evidence into action. Supporting police forces, violence reduction units, and police and crime commissioners to develop or strengthen evidence-based practices, including focused deterrence, hotspots policing, and problem-orientated policing.

To apply

Please click on the “Apply for this” button and submit your CV, cover letter and complete the monitoring form 9:00am Friday 23rd May 2025.