Head of Influencing and Impact

Head of Influencing and Impact
Reporting to: CEO
Salary: £55,000 per annum
Contract: Full-time, permanent. The organisation is open to discussing flexible or part-time working.
Benefits: Access to a defined contribution pension and 25 days annual leave per year + three days between Christmas and New Year.
Location: Hybrid working, with 2 days in the office: Shoreditch, London E2 8JF

About The Organisation

They are bold, ambitious feminists, living in a world where women and girls at the sharpest edge of adversity are consistently overlooked and harmed. Too many women and girls are hurt; too many lives are damaged; too much potential is lost.

The organisation is a social movement, campaigning with courage and in solidarity with their members and women and girls, so that they can thrive. They advocate and campaign for systems and services to respond appropriately to women and girls with multiple unmet needs.

They want public services to respond better to the distinct and multiple unmet needs of women and girls, including appropriately responding to gender, age, race and trauma. For the whole system to respond better, they stand in solidarity with the voluntary sector and advocate for them to be empowered.

The organisation's values are their guiding principles for their work to deliver their mission. It is who they are and how they behave. They promise to be: Intersectional, Courageous, Credible, Clear, Collaborative.

About The Role

As a systems change charity that exists for the most marginalised women and girls, the organisation is looking for a passionate, politically savvy, values-aligned person with outstanding project management skills to shape and help deliver their influencing goals and demonstrate their impact.

The aim of this newly created role is to help influence policy, practice, perceptions and power, in order to improve systems and services for women and girls with unmet needs. This person's ways of working will ensure the voices of women and girls, and the organisation's members are at the core of their influencing work. They will ensure that the team works effectively together towards this shared goal.

Person Specification

• Commitment to social justice and to upholding the rights of women and girls.
• A good understanding of issues related to gender inequality and other social inequalities.
• Politically savvy, with an excellent understanding of the political environment, criminal justice and/or the women and girls' sector and any implications for the organisation's work.
• Good understanding of partnership working and stakeholder management, with the ability to build effective collaborative relationships and work successfully with a wide range of partners.
• Galvanising a diverse team, with the ability to bring people together on a journey towards a shared goal.
• A track record of successfully bringing about social change, with the ability to use evidence, data, and lived experience to influence effectively.
• Experience of developing creative ways to convene partners and build momentum around a cause.
• Good, independent judgement, strategic vision and an ability to think creatively.
• Outstanding project and resource management skills, with a proven ability to lead multi-stakeholder projects from inception to delivery.
• Good understanding of charity leadership and governance and experience of working effectively with a chair and board or similar.
• Coaching and collaborative and inclusive leadership style in tune with the organisation's values.
• Commitment to values of co-production and engagement.
• Confident and persuasive communicator and presenter in writing and orally with the ability to represent the organisation at a range of levels, including on public platforms and in the media.
• An effective networker.
• Understanding of core safeguarding issues and good practice working with women and girls with multiple disadvantage.

Desirable

• Experience of deputising/working closely with a CEO or being on a Senior Leadership team.
• A track record in generating funds from diverse sources and in working with funders.
• Understanding of how to amplify the voices of women and girls with lived experience of the issues the organisation addresses.
• Experience of working in small, agile organisation with limited resources but high ambition.

The organisation is actively trying to diversify their team, so if you are from the Black, Asian and minoritised communities, identify as LGBTQ+, have a disability, and/or bring lived experience relevant to the areas they work in, they would love to hear from you.

What is it like to work for the organistion?

• Wellbeing is a priority, with a flexible working and 'duvet days'
• Team brunches!
• Highly supportive work environment, encouraging learning and respect of lives outside of work
• Working with dedicated, talented women on the team, on the Board and with the organisation's members
• Supportive and engaged board of Trustees
• The organisation cares deeply about the work and better outcomes for women and girls
• They work on the understanding that women and girls are the experts
• They know how to have fun too!

Closing Date: 9am on Monday 8th September 2025

The organisation will be shortlisting as they receive applications and aim to let successful candidates know by 11th September.

The first round of interviews will take place online on 15/16/17 September, with the second round of interviews taking place ideally in person at the organisation's offices on Thursday 25th September.

Interested?

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Equal opportunities

The organisation selects all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and ability to do the role advertised. They welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability (physical or learning), gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

They will provide reasonable support to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.

Because their work is about centring women and girls' experiences, and the organisation is led by and for women and girls, this post is open to women only (exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, part 1). When the organisation refers to women and girls, they mean cisgender, intersex, and transgender women and girls, alongside nonbinary people who experience misogyny.

No agencies please.