Strategic Lead for Child Participation

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Lumos Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Head of Child and Youth Participation

Job Summary:

Lumos is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our efforts in promoting the meaningful participation of children and young people in our work. As Head of Child and Youth Participation, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering our strategy on child participation, working closely with our teams and external partners to ensure that children and young people are empowered to play a meaningful role in decisions affecting themselves and others.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and delivery of a new Lumos child participation strategy, working in partnership with self-advocates, child and youth colleagues, and external partners.
  • Ensure that child participation is mainstreamed throughout the organisation, strengthening our internal capacity and approaches to meaningful participation.
  • Develop annual strategic plans for child participation and ensure that it is included and aligned across the plans, strategies, and projects of our Programmes teams.
  • Oversee the development and strengthening of youth advisory boards in our programmatic countries.
  • Oversee training and capacity building of professionals and authorities involved in care reform planning and implementation to meaningfully include people with lived experience.
  • Engage directly with children, young people, families, and caregivers in-person or online as part of participation initiatives and activities.
  • Lead on the creation and coordination of a Global Youth Advisory Board in close collaboration with the CYP Advisor and CYP Officers.

Networking and External Engagement:

  • Build and nurture relationships with relevant stakeholders in the care reform and connected sectors to shape child participation initiatives and secure opportunities for the participation and meaningful involvement of children and young people.
  • Cultivate and strengthen partnerships with existing child participation networks and alliances at all levels.
  • Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of external and internal international child participation events and activities for self-advocacy groups, working closely with advocacy colleagues.
  • Work with advocacy colleagues to ensure that children and young people are involved in regional and global campaigns, events, and initiatives that inform child rights and care reform policy and programming.

Management of the Team:

  • Strengthen Lumos' internal capacity and approaches to meaningful participation of children, youth, parents, and caregivers.
  • Co-ordinate and provide guidance and capacity-building to CYP staff in Lumos programme countries as they develop and strengthen their CYP work in line with Lumos' Strategy.

Project/Grant Management and Fundraising:

  • Manage CYP grants and programmes to ensure objectives are met, high-quality deliverables are achieved, and budgets are utilised effectively.
  • Work with colleagues from the fundraising team to produce high-quality reports and manage positive relationships with donors.
  • Closely work with safeguarding colleagues to ensure Lumos has, and is implementing, appropriate systems to facilitate safe and ethical CYP that is compliant with Lumos safeguarding policies.

Benefits:

  • 30 days of paid holidays
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
  • Life Assurance
  • Pension Scheme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme, Season ticket loan scheme
  • Employee Assistance and Resilience Programme (EARP)

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