Child Participation Advisor - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - World Vision Perú

World Vision Perú

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.

We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories

Key Responsibilities:
Do you want to work with young changemakers and lead in identifying opportunities to amplify their voice in strategic decision making, policy advocacy and engagement with our supporters and donors?

We have an exciting new opportunity to join our team as a Child Participation Advisor to promote child participation and spearhead the development and strengthening of World Vision UK's Youth Advocacy Network (YAN).

The YAN is composed of young leaders and advocates aged 21 years old and below from various backgrounds and countries, including the UK.

The role will work closely with other teams across the organization and be a champion for child participation and voice with the Strategic Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will play a critical role in the following:

Lead the development and strengthening of the YAN enabling it to be a successful team
Manage the internal and external engagements of the members ensuring all activities adhere to child participation and safeguarding best practice
Support the YAN in the development and implementation of their annual plans and priorities.
Look after the well-being of the members, including ensuring they receive ongoing mentoring and coaching
Support the young people in networking and collaborating with other young people and young people-led organisations.
Manage the monthly cross-organisational child participation coordination meetings
Liaise and coordinate with national (country) office participation and safeguarding focal points and teams to ensure young people are supported
Support the delivery of child participation best practise training to WVUK staff and promote uptake of best practise resources for staff.
Contribute to briefings and reports which will enable stakeholders to understand and respond to the voices of the young people
Collate all required KPI (key performance indicator) data and information on WVUK's child participation work for organisational reporting to leadership and the Trustees
Provide other support as may be required

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

What we're offering

Salary:
£21,961 per annum (FTE £42,750) + good range of benefits

Contract:
Fixed-term for 2 years

Hours: 2.5 days per week

Based:
Milton Keynes/Hybrid (UK-based applicants only)

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer.

This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Interview Dates:

TBC

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct.

We will be requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct.

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