YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST

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YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST
Jul 11, 2025
Full time
The Youth Endowment Fund Programme Manager Reports to: Programme and Impact Lead Salary: £44,200 Contract: 18-month fixed term (Full-Time) Location: Central London, Hybrid Closes: Monday 14 th July 2025 at 12pm About the Youth Endowment Fund 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. Last year , 244 people in England and Wales tragically died after being assaulted with a knife. Of these, 32 were children. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them. Even when violence doesn't strike directly, we know that the fear of violence has a terrible effect on children's lives. The Youth Endowment Fund exists to try and permanently change things. To succeed, we must build an exceptional body of knowledge about violence affecting young people and how we reduce it. This knowledge has to be both rigorous and highly relevant to those making decisions about how to support vulnerable young people. We need to find out what works and what doesn't through evidence synthesis, data analysis and qualitative research into children's lives. We need to convert this into highly accessible content on what works, how delivery organisations need to change their practice and how the systems they operate in need to be reformed. We then need to work with the right people that can make change happen, across systems, policies and practice, to have a real impact on reducing violence affecting children's lives. Key Responsibilities 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 achieve this, you will: Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with by assessing funding applications, critically appraising delivery plans and budgets, getting to know potential grantees and conducting site visits. These assessments will help you form recommendations to our senior leadership team about which opportunities to pursue. Work closely with grantees, external evaluators and our own evaluation team to ensure that the activity we are funding will be evaluable. This requires you to support and advise grantees on how to work in the context of an evaluation - usually, a randomised trial (you don't have to have experience working on a randomised trial in the past, but it helps!). Build strong relationships with our grantees and provide them with ongoing management and support through the life of their funding. You will also be responsible for monitoring the performance of grantees and ensuring targets are met and any project risks are effectively mitigated. Think carefully about how we find the best projects to fund and evaluate, ensuring we can best find what works to keep children safe. To do this you might need to work with colleagues to spot where there has previously been a lack of evidence about what works (we will help you with this!). You would project manage these projects so they are excellently delivered - on time, within budget, and to a high standard. You will help to determine what our commissioning processes aim to achieve and design grant application processes to achieve it. You'll manage our engagement with potential grantees to make sure we are attracting a diverse and promising portfolio of organisations to apply. Report to our team and external stakeholders regularly on how well the projects we are funding are going, spotting where grantees need support and coming up with how we can best provide that support. Represent the Youth Endowment Fund at external events, including reporting and presenting to our Grants and Evaluation Committee, who approve all our funding decisions. About You You are this sort of person: You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in a charity that is making a difference. You want to work in a job that makes young people safer. This issue matters to you. You don't need extensive experience in grant making, you just have to be committed to learning it. You should be keen to learn about the sectors we work with, the challenges facing young people and what organisations face when implementing programmes. You have experience in one or more of the following areas: policing, education, criminal justice, social care or the youth sector. You have a strong understanding of challenges that organisations face in delivering projects. You must also be a really good project manager, great at managing and developing people and external stakeholders, energised by tackling complex problems and really care about the YEF's mission to build evidence of what works. You have incredible judgement. You are able to reach sound and considered judgements about the viability and suitability of applicants based upon our given criteria, often using detailed written and financial information, and are able to deliver constructive feedback to organisations. You can also identify when things aren't going to plan and be proactive with sharing observations and recommendations. You are an optimiser. You look for solutions and think creatively to overcome challenges. You are curious, hungry to learn and always looking for ways to improve processes and increase efficiency and impact. You love well-designed systems. You are committed to designing and maintaining the best systems to make sure we manage our commissioning processes well. You know this is critical to effectively managing multiple, large-scale funding programmes and competing priorities. You are an excellent communicator. You have the ability to convey information clearly and effectively-both in writing and verbally. You understand the importance of strong communication in fast-paced decision-making and thrive in a busy, collaborative team environment. You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with people at every level inside and outside the organisation and have managed large networks of stakeholders with different interests and priorities. You are excellent at customer service and can professionally handle issues that come up within your grant portfolio. You work very well in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed. You don't care who gets the credit as long as things get done. You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values. While it's not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence. We're also keen to hear from applicants with a strong understanding of evaluation methodologies-particularly Randomised Control Trials (RCTs)-and experience either directly supporting or overseeing programme delivery within an evaluation context. It's important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, however, the organisation may employ positive action where candidates from underrepresented groups can demonstrate their ability to perform the role equally well. This position will require a DBS check to be performed, but a record is not a block to performing this role. Hybrid Working Details The office is based in Central London, but you don't have to be. Those living in and around London are expected to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week. If you live outside of London and work remotely, you'll be expected to work from the London office 2 days per month. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage. 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. If you have specific expertise in any of our sectors , we want to hear about it in your cover letter. Applicants must answer the following questions as part of their application to be considered. 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YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST Hackney, London
Mar 06, 2025
Full time
Communications and Digital Marketing Officer Contract: 2-year fixed term (potential to extend) Location: Central London or Hybrid (see below) About the Youth Endowment Fund 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. In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them. The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence across England and Wales. We do this by funding great initiatives, finding out what works and working for change. Key Responsibilities YEF is entering a new phase of growing scale and ambition. There is more urgency and scope than ever for us to contribute meaningfully towards preventing violence amongst children and young people. Communicating with, informing and persuading our growing audiences about the vitality of our mission will require being innovative, hands-on and prepared to speak out with humanity and boldness. The Public Affairs and Communications Team is crucial for effectively communicating and promoting YEF's ideas to a wider audience and driving demand for the evidence about what works to prevent violence amongst children and young people. We can only hope to achieve our mission if those working in our sectors hear from us about what works, trust our research and put our guidance into practice. We need policymakers, politicians and people in charge of services to listen and act, but also youth-workers, police, social workers, headteachers and young people to believe in our movement for change on the ground. We want to continue being a leading voice in the national conversation about preventing violence. Your job will be essential to this. You will support the Public Affairs and Communications team to communicate our work as thoughtfully, impactfully and creatively as possible through engaging media communications and PR campaigns, video-led social media content and strategic digital marketing. Your responsibilities will mostly fall under the following three areas: Digital Marketing, Social Media and Video: Editing, updating and maintaining content on the website, and collaborating with relevant staff teams to ensure content is up to date. Supporting with monthly digital content generation for YEF social media channels, including the planning and creation of short videos and boosting engagement for the YEF podcast. Supporting with segmented email marketing and newsletter content. Monitoring and evaluating our performance across digital platforms in order to expand the number of unique site visits to key website and social media pages, including the Toolkit, YouTube and LinkedIn. Communications, Media and PR: Drafting, managing and distributing stakeholder communications across public affairs and media for new YEF publications and outputs. Identifying and generating monthly media opportunities through outreach with journalists and collating media, publication and journalist lists. Managing organisational inbox and other communications streams. Managing the distribution and development of the case study template and supporting with the successful launch of the grantee storytelling programme. Team Support and Administration: Organising and note-taking for weekly team meetings and tracking the timely completion of minutes and actions. Identifying and generating new public speaking and audience engagement opportunities for Director of Public Affairs and Communications. About you : You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in a charity that is making a difference. You are interested in applying research to understanding and solving social problems affecting people in British society. You are passionate about telling human stories that use creative writing, design, photography and videography to engage diverse audiences. You have experience of using WordPress, Mailchimp or other digital marketing tools, this can be used strategically to get people outside of an organisation to pay attention to and engage with its work. You have experience creating social media assets (using software such as Canva or Adobe Illustrator) and increasing audience engagement on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram. You are a team player who works in an organised, communicative and selfless way. You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values. You may ideally have, but they are not essential: Experience of working for an organisation that works with, or on issues affecting, children and young people. Digital marketing and communications experience in an organisation whose audiences include youth workers, teachers, the police and policymakers. Short-form video production and editing skills, particularly in service of TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Experience of working with journalists, publications and online platforms on bringing content, media and PR campaigns to life. While it's not a criteria, we're especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of violence affecting children and young people. It's also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, however, the organisation may employ positive action where candidates from underrepresented groups can demonstrate their ability to perform the role equally well. Hybrid Working The office is based in Central London. Those living in and around London are expected to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week. If you live outside of London and work remotely, you'll be expected to work from the London office 2 days per month. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage. To apply Please click on the "Apply for this" button and submit your CV, your completed monitoring form and ensure your covering letter answers the following three questions below. Application Questions: Can you share an example of a creative idea you have worked on that helped secure press coverage? Describe a time you had to increase engagement on a social media platform for a campaign or client. What strategies did you employ, and what were the results? Why is preventing violence amongst children and young people important to you, and how can storytelling help to achieve this goal? Please submit your application by Monday 24th March at 9:00 am Interview process This will be a one stage interview process. Interviews will take place the week of 31st March 2025 We do not sponsor work permits and you will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. Benefits include: £1,000 professional development budget annually 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays Employee Assistance Programme - 24hr phone line for free confidential support Volunteering days - 4 half days per year Death in service - 4 times annual salary Flexible hours. Core office hours 10am - 4pm Financial support including travel and hardship loans Employer contributed pension of 5% Your data Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area. The people we are looking for do not discriminate and we believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.