Policy Implementation Lead
Type of employment: Fixed Term (12 months), 35 hours/week.
Salary: £44,414 - £54,421
Closing Date: 16 April 2023
Change-makers sought!
Do you want to help Scotland to keep The Promise? Are you passionate about improving the experiences and life opportunities of Scotland’s children who are in need of support, care and protection?
About you
We are looking for an experienced, innovative, and values-driven policy lead who will be a strategic, analytical and compassionate individual, who has the strong inter-personal and writing skills required to lead, support and encourage collaboration on activities that will achieve positive change with and for children, families, carers and workforces. Can you translate evidence, including lived experience, to inform the strengthening of legal frameworks and policies that guide public bodies and public service responsibilities to babies, infants, children and young people who are affected by poverty, family stresses and strains, and who live with kinship, foster, or residential carers?
About the role
The post holder will lead CELCIS’s policy function in line with our Strategy and Business Plan. The role will have a particular focus on supporting and influencing the effective formulation and implementation of policy. You will take account of the evidence base, including the voice of children and adults with lived experience, to inform and influence the development of national policy that can be implemented, as well as supporting effective implementation of key policy areas and agendas. You will represent CELCIS and share knowledge and learning drawn from our work at external and internal meetings, forums and events (e.g. at policy forums and working groups focused on particular goals or issues with key strategic stakeholders including Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, MSPs, MPs, and local authority elected members), and contribute to the review, edit and proofing of any research, policy or data briefings generated by colleagues in the Evidence and Innovation hub.
About CELCIS
At CELCIS we work to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection, and their families and carers. We do this by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes in services and in the practices and skills they use, all based on the needs, experiences and rights of children and young people.
CELCIS is part of Strathclyde University and staff are university employees with access to rewards and benefits including annual salary increments and membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. We are also committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and offer a number of benefits including flexible working, paid maternity and paternity leave, an on-campus nursery and access to the Strathclyde Sport leisure centre.
Qualifications and experience
You will have a relevant degree and/or appropriate professional qualification and relevant experience in the appropriate field and also a relevant postgraduate qualification. You will have significant knowledge and experience in a similar policy-related role in Scotland, with a demonstrable track record of delivering strategic policy activity, including policy analysis, actively contributing to informing and influencing policy agendas, policy formulation and policy implementation as well as experience of providing leadership, line management and support to staff. You will have demonstrable analytical skills, with the ability to read, analyse, synthesise and translate written information into succinct, accessible, focused summaries (e.g. for use in written briefings, presentations, notes for speaking).
Formal interviews will be held on 3 May 2023.
We welcome and support applications from a range of backgrounds including lived experience.
Funding for the post
Funding for the post: The post is funded for 12 months, with a further year of funding indicated by Scottish Government at this stage.
We are working across the country, at local and national level, to help realise The Promise of the Independent Care Review. Change is happening. Be part of it. Together we can make things better for children, young people and their families and carers. Apply now.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Heather Ottaway, Head of Evidence and Innovation (heather.ottaway@strath.ac.uk).