We're looking for an experienced Senior Policy & Research Manager to lead our UK Child Poverty policy and research work in Westminster.

This is a 10 month internal secondment.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

As Senior Policy & Research Manager, you will both lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary teams to shape our Westminster policy and campaigning work. You'll manage and support a small team of policy professionals, lead ambitious policy development and research on child poverty, and ensure the voices of children, young people and families with lived experience are embedded across all of our work. You will lead on, and support the team to, deliver high-impact research, briefings and advocacy to drive change in Westminster, and support the policy development and influencing locally and regionally.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and lead ambitious policy positions on child poverty, informed by evidence and lived experience
• Deliver high-quality research, reports and briefings that influence government and local authority policy
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex influencing projects
• Strengthen engagement and co-production with children, young people and families facing poverty, particularly those experiencing marginalisation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with policymakers, researchers and sector partners

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Strong knowledge of child poverty and the children's sector, including systemic drivers and inequalities
• Proven strategic leadership experience, including line management and/or leading MDTs
• Significant experience in policy research and analysis, using qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Experience co-producing research or policy with children, young people and families
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex evidence into compelling policy messages
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing date: Sunday 18th January at midnight

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Location & Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2–4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure: 

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children | Careers

Interview Expenses: 

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here.

For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk