Insight and Influence Officer - London, United Kingdom - Greenwich Council
Description
Insight and Influence Officer
Are you passionate about making sure that the voices of children and young people are heard and acted upon? Do you to want to ensure services are developed in partnership with children and young people and better meet their needs?
The Insight and Influence Team (Children's Services) supports consistent and meaningful engagement with children and young people, gathering data and insight to help us understand their lived experiences and to inform strategic decision making. Working closely with our youth voice groups, you will ensure the involvement of children and young people makes a difference.
As well as supporting the embedding of good participation practice, this role will support the Greenwich Children and Young People's Council (GYPC), Children in our Care Council and Care Leavers Forum to deliver their priorities and work alongside a team of Young Advisors to embed youth voice in our strategic decision-making.
You will have experience of working directly with children and young people in a variety of creative ways to gather insight and to influence decision-making. You will champion inclusive and impactful engagement. You will be passionate about ensuring youth voice makes a difference.
This role will require you to be able to work flexibly including regular evenings and occasional weekends and travel across London and the UK, including overnight visits.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team, we are seeking an individual who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people.
As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.
Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.
High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.
DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).
Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.
Internal to External: This opportunity has recently been advertised as an opportunity for current RBG employees (internal only advertising). Applications received during the internal advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position via an application to this job advertisement during the internal advertising period, any further application will not be shortlisted.
How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.
Previous Applicants: This opportunity has recently been advertised. Applications received during the last advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position, any further application will not be shortlisted.
Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this to help you calculate a pro rata salary.
Our Staff Values: are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.